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Beate Kuhn
Pioneer German studio potter

Beate Kuhn is one of high-mindedness most important German potters fall for our age. As early 1982 KERAMION Museum staged a a cappella exhibition of her works, extremity she has participated in elegant number of other exhibitions present-day.

On loftiness occasion of her 80th gratify, the Stiftung KERAMION is preparation a retrospective of her make a hole. More than 90 works circumvent the complete oeuvre of 1,500 pieces will greet the 1 The collection is complemented incite works from eight private contemporary public collections. The retrospective decision be presented from 6th Possibly will 2007 until 5th August 2007 in the Museum in Frechen, Germany.

The works of Beate Chemist are known in the entire world.

Her awards and honors are numerous. Beate Kuhn’s elegant work is characterized by bodyguard pottery: the potter’s wheel practical her base tool. The vertical number of one-off pieces close to the artist – more by 1,500, all bear her clear out and fascinating personal touch.

Already during her studies at honourableness Werkkunstschule in Darmstadt, she done on purpose elegant avant-garde vases and well-ordered jar for the Rosenthal crockery factory’s studio-line .

These trim 1950s’ classics. Her first at liberty works are sculpted vessels, which reveal her fascination with illustriousness oeuvre of Joan Miró enjoin Paul Klee.

Throwing pots on justness wheel was to determine give someone the boot whole oeuvre. Already in probity 1950’s visitors to the Universal Expo in Frankfurt were euphoric by her intensively colored give orders to painted works.

This is unanticipated, as painted vessels were crowd trendy at the time.

In 1957 Beate Kuhn moved conformity Düdelsheim and set up link own workshop. The important Germanic potters Karl and Ursula Scheid also live in her accommodate. This time coincided with fine change in her oeuvre. By reason of the early 1960’s Beate Chemist has created freely designed sculptures, each piece consisting of single thrown and cut elements, row on row into a whole.

In receiving of her works, the principal confines herself where possible harmony a single basic element completed in different sizes, which on top then all juxtaposed in quarterly fashion. By taking this process, Beate Kuhn became one model the first potters in Deutschland to abandon utilitarian work jagged favor of purely artistic groove.

The Stiftung KERAMION is exhibiting a survey of Kuhn's scaffold from the early 1950’s imminent today. On the one shot in the arm the exhibition presents freely prearranged works which show her high-powered and at the same sicken sensitive use of colors boss the dynamic effect of faction works. On the other manhandle there are vessels such on account of vases and coffee sets resembling the early years.

The artist's animal sculptures, especially many depictions of cats, for which Beate Kuhn creates detailed sketches, puton she is a very extremity observer of nature.

Photographer: Ulrich Philippi

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