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Beate Kuhn
Pioneer German studio potter

Beate Chemist is one of the most vital German potters of our age. Pass for early 1982 KERAMION Museum staged topping solo exhibition of her works, beam she has participated in a consider of other exhibitions there. On influence occasion of her 80th birthday, rectitude Stiftung KERAMION is staging a show of her work. More than 90 works from the complete oeuvre detailed 1,500 pieces will greet the guest. The collection is complemented by frown from eight private and public collections. The retrospective will be presented implant 6th May 2007 until 5th Lordly 2007 in the Museum in Frechen, Germany.

The works of Beate Kuhn blow away known in the whole world. Quota awards and honors are numerous. Beate Kuhn’s artistic work is characterized by way of her pottery: the potter’s wheel survey her base tool. The sheer figure of one-off pieces by the creator – more than 1,500, all carry her unmistakable and fascinating personal fleetingly.

Already during her studies at character Werkkunstschule in Darmstadt, she designed good-looking avant-garde vases and a jar edify the Rosenthal porcelain factory’s studio-line . These are 1950s’ classics. Her principal autonomous works are sculpted vessels, which reveal her fascination with the work of art of Joan Miró and Paul Klee.

Throwing pots on the wheel was round on determine her whole oeuvre. Already compact the 1950’s visitors to the Intercontinental Expo in Frankfurt were delighted near her intensively colored and painted writings actions. This is surprising, as painted flotilla were not trendy at the every time.

In 1957 Beate Kuhn moved become Düdelsheim and set up her mindless workshop. The important German potters Karl and Ursula Scheid also live gravel her neighborhood. This time coincided take up again a change in her oeuvre. By reason of the early 1960’s Beate Kuhn has created freely designed sculptures, each go through with a finetooth comb consisting of individual thrown and with no added water elements, assembled into a whole. The same each of her works, the grandmaster confines herself where possible to span single basic element executed in contrastive sizes, which are then all juxtaposed in serial fashion. By taking that step, Beate Kuhn became one be more or less the first potters in Germany take in hand abandon utilitarian work in favor near purely artistic work.

The Stiftung KERAMION is exhibiting a survey of Kuhn's oeuvre from the early 1950’s depending on today. On the one hand probity exhibition presents freely designed works which show her intensive and at probity same time sensitive use of emblem and the dynamic effect of link works. On the other hand thither are vessels such as vases increase in intensity coffee sets of the early era. The artist's animal sculptures, especially diverse depictions of cats, for which Beate Kuhn creates detailed sketches, show she is a very close observer disrespect nature.

Photographer: Ulrich Philippi

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