Ingo Kühl (born 29 June 1953) is a German

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sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

and

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Life

Grown up in Bovenau near

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as a son of a policeman, Ingo Kühl attended the Theodor-Storm-Realschule in Hanerau-Hademarschen. After a traineeship as a

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and a

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he studied architecture at the Kiel University of Applied Sciences. From 1977 to 1982, he studied architecture and fine arts at the

Berlin University of the Arts The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the second largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research uni ...

. At that time

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influenced his drawings dealing with architectural fantasies. Motivated by an encounter with the painter Heinz Trökes in 1979, he turned towards painting. He traveled throughout Europe using his first sketchbooks. In 1977 a trip to Israel,

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, followed. In 1978 he participated in an excursion to

Teheran Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District. With a population of around 9.8 million in the city as of 2025, ...

led by Prof. Rainer Ernst, with a sojourn in

Isfahan Isfahan or Esfahan ( ) is a city in the Central District (Isfahan County), Central District of Isfahan County, Isfahan province, Iran. It is the capital of the province, the county, and the district. It is located south of Tehran. The city ...

. Additional to his Berlin artist's studio he ran a studio on the North Sea peninsula Eiderstedt (from 1980 to 1994), followed by studios on the North Sea islands

Amrum Amrum (; Öömrang, ''Öömrang'' North Frisian: ''Oomram'') is one of the North Frisian Islands on the Germany, German North Sea coast, south of Sylt and west of Föhr. It is part of the Nordfriesland district in the federal state of Schleswig-H ...

an Nordstrand. Since 2002

Sylt Sylt (; ; Söl'ring North Frisian: ) is an island in northern Germany, part of Nordfriesland district, Schleswig-Holstein, with a distinctively shaped shoreline. It belongs to the North Frisian Islands and is the largest island in North Fris ...

has been his preferred domicile. In 1982 he had a studio in

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, New York. In 1984 he became a Member of the Chamber of Architects Berlin as a "self-employed architect" and tried to build one of Hermann Finsterlin's Architecture Visions.�
Archiv of the Akademy of Arts Berlin, Collection Hermann Finsterlin
at the Hans-Scharoun-Archiv In 1987 he resigned from the Chamber of Architects to devote himself entirely to painting. In 1988 he published the book ''Luft und Wasser – Gedichte und Bilder'' together with Sarah Kirsch in the

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Verlag. The first bronze casting of an Architectural Sculpture was realized. In 1999 he visited the

Lofoten Lofoten ( , ; ; ) is an archipelago and a Districts of Norway, traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Lofoten has distinctive scenery with dramatic mountains and peaks, open sea and sheltered bays, beaches, and untouched lands. T ...

, set up a provisional studio in

Reine Reine is the administrative centre of Moskenes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The fishing village is located on the island of Moskenesøya in the Lofoten archipelago, above the Arctic Circle, about southwest of the city of Tromsø. ...

in a rorbu and painted the view over the harbor to the mountain range and the Moskstraumen. In 2000 he made a trip around the world:

Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

Laos Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and ...

New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...

, South Pacific,

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

. In 2001 he married Annette Kühl and they both spent a year in the

South Seas Today the term South Seas, or South Sea, most commonly refers to the portion of the Pacific Ocean south of the equator. The term South Sea may also be used synonymously for Oceania, or even more narrowly for Polynesia or the Polynesian Triangle ...

Cook Islands The Cook Islands is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of 15 islands whose total land area is approximately . The Cook Islands' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) covers of ocean. Avarua is its ...

French Polynesia French Polynesia ( ; ; ) is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole #Governance, overseas country. It comprises 121 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over more than in the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean. The t ...

Fiji Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about ...

Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (; ), is an island country in Melanesia located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east o ...

. He painted South Sea pictures. After participating in an expedition of the Vanuatu Cultural Centre to ceremonies of the indigenous people in Lamap on

Malakula Malakula, also spelled Malekula, is the second-largest island in the nation of Vanuatu, formerly the New Hebrides, in Melanesia, a region of the Pacific Ocean. Location Malakula is separated from the islands of Espiritu Santo and Malo Island, Ma ...

, his works that were created there were shown in an exhibition at the National Museum of Vanuatu. Travels followed to

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

, where he painted the Picture cycle ''Landscapes of the End of the World'' (2005) in

Tierra del Fuego Tierra del Fuego (, ; Spanish for "Land of Fire", rarely also Fireland in English) is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South America, South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan. The archipelago consists of the main is ...

and circumnavigated

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on board of a sailing yacht (2009). In

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

he worked together with the indigenous sculptor Tomulopa Deko. The two explored the

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area (2010). In 2012 he returned to Papua New Guinea with his wife and both traveled in company with Tomulopa Deko to the Sepik River again. Afterwards they visited the

Trobriand Islands The Trobriand Islands are a archipelago of coral atolls off the east coast of New Guinea. They are part of the nation of Papua New Guinea and are in Milne Bay Province. Most of the population of 60,000 (2016) indigenous inhabitants live on the m ...

, where Ingo Kühl studied the Kula culture. In 2019 he took part in the project "Tisch am Kliff" (Table on the Cliff): Two bronze plates each on the theme of 5000 years of Sylt history designed and assembled into a table plate by five artists, set up on the

Wadden Sea The Wadden Sea ( ; ; or ; ; ; ) is an intertidal zone in the southeastern part of the North Sea. It lies between the coast of northwestern continental Europe and the range of low-lying Frisian Islands, forming a shallow body of water with tida ...

in the immediate vicinity of the Sylt Museum in Keitum. Ingo Kühl lives in Berlin and Keitum /

Oeuvre

Painting

In his early work, echoes of

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Action painting Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied. The resulting work often emphasizes the physical ...

and

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can be recognized. From 1983 he dealt with

Landscape painting Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a cohe ...

and after a phase of almost

monochrome A monochrome or monochromatic image, object or palette is composed of one color (or values of one color). Images using only shades of grey are called grayscale (typically digital) or black-and-white (typically analog). In physics, mon ...

non-representational pictures that are reminiscent of the work of Gotthard Graubner, he turned back to paintings based on natural phenomena. The series of pictures ''Färöer'' (

Faroe Islands The Faroe Islands ( ) (alt. the Faroes) are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. Located between Iceland, Norway, and the United Kingdom, the islands have a populat ...

) (1995) and ''

Winterreise ''Winterreise'' (, ''Winter Journey'') is a song cycle for voice and piano by Franz Schubert (Schubert Thematic Catalogue, D. 911, published as Opus number, Op. 89 in 1828), a setting of 24 Poetry, poems by German poet Wilhelm Müller. It is the ...

'' (based on

Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a List of compositions ...

) (1995/96) were created. In 1998 he painted four large-format oil paintings on the subject of ''Vier Jahreszeiten'' (Four Seasons) for the Johanniter Hospital in Fläming in

Treuenbrietzen Treuenbrietzen () is a town in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district of Brandenburg, Germany. Geography The municipality Treuenbrietzen is situated 32 km northeast of Wittenberg and includes the localities * city of Treuenbrietzen with its agglom ...

. These were followed by picture cycles such as ''Landschaften am Ende der Welt'' (2005) and ''Das Haus am Watt'' (House on the Mudflats) (2015). File:Ingo Kühl - Architektur in Schneelandschaft - WV A 05-80.jpg, "Architektur (Brücke) in Schneelandschaft" 1980, oil on cotton, 200 × 130 cm File:Farbraum WV 9-86.jpg, ''Farbraum'', 1986, oil on canvas, 100 × 100 cm, Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig File:Ingo Kühl "Färöer II", Öl auf Nessel 120 x 120 cm, 1995, Werkverzeichnis 38-95.jpg, ''Färöer II'' from the picture cycle '' Färöer'', 1995, oil on cotton, 120 x 120 cm File:Ingo Kühlen" Bild 23 aus dem 24-teiligen Bilderzyklus "Winterreise" nach Franz Schubert, Öl auf Leinwand 160 x 160 cm, 1996, Werkverzeichnis 28-96.tif, ''Die Nebensonnen'' from the picture cycle ''

'' after Franz Schubert 1996, oil on canvas, 160 × 160 cm File:Ingo Kühl "Gletscher (Beagle Kanal)" 2005.jpg, ''Gletscher ( Beagle-Kanal)'' from the picture cycle ''Landschaften am Ende der Welt'', painted in

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2005, oil on cotton, 40 × 60 cm File:Ingo Kühl - "Zwischen Himmel und Erde", Öl auf Nessel 200 x 300 cm, Werkverzeichnis 43-08, Besitz Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schoss Gottorf, Schleswig.jpg, ''Zwischen Himmel und Erde'' 2008, oil on cotton, 200 × 300 cm, Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig File:The Sea IV 2012, Öl auf Leinwand 101 x 182 cm, Werkverzeichnis 6-12, gemalt in Vanuatu.jpg, ''The Sea IV'' 2012, oil on canvas, 101 × 182 cm, painted in

File:Seebild 2014 Öl auf Leinwand 150 x 200 cm.jpg, ''Seebild'' 2014, oil on canvas, 150 × 200 cm File:Ingo Kühl - HAUS AM WATT VIII, Öl auf Leinwand 150 x 200 cm, WV 10-15.jpg, ''Haus am Watt'' 2015, oil on canvas, 150 × 200 cm File:Ingo Kühl - BEWEGTES MEER III, Öl auf Leinwand 250 x 570 cm, WV 3-20.jpg, ''Bewegtes Meer III'' 2020, oil on canvas, 250 × 570 cm (three-part), in the Berlin studio

Sculptural works

Since 1986 he has been making sculptures in clay and plaster based on his drawings on the subject of ''architecture fantasies'', one of them was

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in bronze in the art foundry Hermann Noack in 1988. It served as a model for an accessible, unfinished and temporary architectural sculpture ''The Eighth Day'' on the Obermarkt in

Görlitz Görlitz (; ; ; ; ; Lusatian dialects, East Lusatian: , , ) is a town in the Germany, German state of Saxony. It is on the river Lusatian Neisse and is the largest town in Upper Lusatia, the second-largest town in the region of Lusatia after ...

(1996) as well as for several casts in plaster, acrystal and zellan. Furthermore, he created eight colored

relief Relief is a sculpture, sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term ''wikt:relief, relief'' is from the Latin verb , to raise (). To create a sculpture in relief is to give ...

s of clay on the subject of

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of the

Sermon on the Mount The Sermon on the Mount ( anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: ) is a collection of sayings spoken by Jesus of Nazareth found in the Gospel of Matthew (chapters 5, 6, and 7). that emphasizes his moral teachings. It is th ...

for the senior citizens' home next to the Christ Church in Görlitz (1997) and the five-part series ''West Coast'', inspired by the West Coast of New Zealand. In 2008 three Architectural Sculptures entitled ''Raum – die ganze Stadt'' (Space – The Whole City) were cast in bronze. An enlarged version of the Architecture Sculpture of 1988 was produced in 2009 (on a scale of 5: 1) and shown in the exhibition ''Art on the Beach'' in Rantum on Sylt. In 2010 in Keitum on Sylt he created together with Tomulopa Deko from Papua New Guinea two carved and colored sculptures ''Wedding Chairs'' in the form of Kundu drums. In 2019 the bronze relief ''Boat in a moving sea'' was created. File:5. Architektur-Skulptur 1988 Bronze 69 x 35 x 20 cm.JPG, ''Architektur-Skulptur'', 1988, bronze, 69 × 35 × 20 cm File:2009 A-S 1-09 (Ausschnitt).JPG, ''Architektur-Skulptur'', 2009, Epoxidharz, 400 × 220 × 110 cm File:"Tisch am Kliff" Bronze-Reliefs "Walfischflosse" und "Hügelgrab" von Ingo Kühl 2019.jpg, ''Tisch am Kliff'' in Keitum / Sylt, bronze reliefs, ''Wal in bewegter See'' and ''Hügelgrab'', 2019 File:"Boot in bewegter See" Bronzerelief von Ingo Kühl.jpg, ''Boot in bewegter See'', 2019, bronze relief, 31 × 31 × 8 cm

Graphics

Engineering- and

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s were followed by studies according to the Old and New Masters and things from the visible world. The graphic work includes drawings, works oil on paper, watercolors, lithographs and etchings. He published graphics, for example in the "Vor Island" ("Before Iceland") map, which he produced before traveling to

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. File:"Theodor Storm" Zeichnung von Ingo Kühl, 1980.jpg, '' Theodor Storm'', 1980 drawing, pastel chalk on paper, 30 × 21 cm File:Ingo Kühl "Vor Island", Titelblatt der Mappe mit 5 Farblithografien.jpg, ''Vor Island'', 1996, cover of the map with 5 color lithographs File:Ingo Kühl "Keitum Kirche" Skizzenbuch "Sylt".tif, '' Keitum Kirche'', 2002, watercolor, sketchbook "Sylt" File:Morsum Kliff 13. März 2003, Aquarell von Ingo Kühl.tif, ''

Morsum Morsum (North Frisian: ''Muasem'') is a village on the North Sea island of Sylt in the district of Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Today, it is an ''Ortsteil'' of the ''Sylt (municipality), Gemeinde Sylt''. Morsum is located close to ...

Kliff'', 2003, watercolor, sketchbook "Sylt"

Signature

Oil paintings are usually signed on the back (and provided with a catalog raisonné number), while works on paper are signed, numbered and dated on the front and prints under the motif. The signature is engraved on sculptures.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

* ''Architektur-Phantasien'', Hochschule der Künste Berlin, 1981. * ''Zeichnungen 1976–81'', Hochschule der Künste Berlin, 1982. * ''Figures and Formkomposits'', The Center for Art and Culture of Bedford–Stuyvesant Inc., Brooklyn, New York, 1982. * ''Óleos'', Centro Cultural São Lourenço,

Almancil Almancil () is a town and ''freguesia'' in the Loulé Municipality, in the affluent Golden Triangle region of the Algarve The Algarve (, , ) is the southernmost NUTS statistical regions of Portugal, NUTS II region of continental Portugal. It ...

, Portugal, 1986. * ''Luft und Wasser'', Nordfriesisches Museum, Nissenhaus,

Husum Husum (, ) is the capital of the ''Kreis'' (district) Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The town was the birthplace of the novelist Theodor Storm, who coined the epithet "the grey town by the sea". It is also the home of the annual i ...

, 1988. * ''Himmel'', Kardinal-von-Galen-Haus,

Cloppenburg Cloppenburg (; ; ) is a town in Lower Saxony, in north-western Germany, capital of Cloppenburg District and part of Oldenburg Münsterland. It lies 38 km south-south-west of Oldenburg in the Weser-Ems region between Bremen and the Dutch ...

-Stapelfeld, 1995. * ''

nach

'', Sender Freies Berlin (SFB), Haus des Rundfunks (1996) and Philharmonie, Berlin 1997. * ''A velha ponte de madeira da Quinta do Lago'', Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil, Portugal, 1998. * ''Paisagens marinhas'', Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil, 2001. * ''La Mer'', Espace Culturel Français,

Port Vila Port Vila ( ; ), or simply Vila (), is the capital of Vanuatu and its largest city. It is on the island of Efate, in Shefa Province. The population was 49,034 as of the 2020 census. In 2020, the population of Port Vila formed 16.3% of the ...

, South Pacific, 2002. * ''Dance – Masks – Ceremonies'', National Museum of Vanuatu, Port Vila, 2002. * ''Südseewellen'', Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museen Dahlem, 2004/05. * ''Macht der Natur'', Museum der Stadt Bad Hersfeld, 2005. * ''Paisajes del fin del Mundo'', 1. Cooperativa de Arte,

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile (), is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is located in the country's central valley and is the center of the Santiago Metropolitan Regi ...

de Chile, 2005. * ''The Creation / Die Schöpfung'', University of Goroka,

, 2010. * ''Rund um Kap Hoorn'', Botschaft der Republik Chile, Berlin, 2013/14. * ''In der Nähe des Meeres'', Galerie Hovestadt, Nottuln, 2014/2015. * ''In der Nähe des Meeres'',

Nordfriesland Nordfriesland (; ; Low German: Noordfreesland), also known as North Frisia, is the northernmost Districts of Germany, district of Germany, part of the state of Schleswig-Holstein. It includes almost all of traditional North Frisia (with the e ...

Museum, Nissenhaus, Husum, 2018. * ''Meeresnah'', Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, 2018. * ''In der Nähe des Meeres'', Galerie Kairos, Berlin, 2019. * ''Weltrand – Aquarelle, Ölbilder und Skulpturen von Ingo Kühl'', Stadtgalerie Alte Post, Westerland / Sylt, 2019. * ''Kraft der Elemente auf Sylt'', Sylt Museum, Keitum, 2022. * ''Ode an das Meer'', Stadtgalerie Alte Post, Westerland / Sylt, 2023. * ''Winterreise'', Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, 2024. * ''Vom Widerhall ferner Ebenen'', Haus Martfeld, Schwelm, 2024.

Participations

* ''FBK'', Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung, Berlin, 1981, '83, '87, '92, '93, '95. * ''Hommage (à Hermann Finsterlin)'', Obere Galerie – Haus am Lützowplatz, Kunstamt Tiergarten, Berlin, with Richard Hamilton,

Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...

Niki de Saint Phalle Niki de Saint Phalle (; born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle; 29 October 193021 May 2002) was a French sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books. Widely noted as one of the few female monumental sculp ...

Wolf Vostell Wolf Vostell (14 October 1932 – 3 April 1998) was a German painter and sculptor, considered one of the early adopters of video art and installation art and pioneer of Happenings and Fluxus. Techniques such as blurring and Dé-coll/age are ...

, Paul Wunderlich among others 1984 and ''Tod und Leben'', with Waldemar Grzimek, Carl Hofer,

Käthe Kollwitz Käthe Kollwitz ( born Schmidt; 8 July 186722 April 1945) was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including ''The Weavers'' and ''The Peasa ...

Alfred Kubin Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (10 April 1877 – 20 August 1959) was an Austrian artist, printmaker, illustrator, and occasional writer. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism. Biography Kubin was born i ...

, Heinrich Richter-Berlin, Georges Rouault, Ludmila Seefried-Matějková among others 1986. * '' Villa Massimo Applications for the Rom Stipend'', Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, 1988 and Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen / Rhein, 1991. * ''Arte Contemporânea – Colecção Marie e Volker Huber'', with

João Cutileiro João Cutileiro OSE (26 June 1937 – 5 January 2021) was a Portuguese sculptor. He is responsible for a number of controversial female nudes in marble. Life Cutileiro was born and died in Lisbon. He was the creator of several pieces of mo ...

, José de Guimarães,

Antoni Tàpies Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tápies, Marquess of Tàpies (; 13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012) was a Catalans, Catalan painter, sculptor, and art theorist. Life The son of Josep Tàpies i Mestre and Maria Puig i Guerra, Antoni T ...

Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass (; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gda ...

, Rainer Wölzl, Corneille among others, Convento Espírito Santo,

Loulé Loulé () is a city and Concelho, municipality in the region of Algarve, Faro District, district of Faro, Portugal. In 2021, the population of the entire municipality was 72,373 inhabitants, in an area of approximately . The municipality has two p ...

, Portugal, 1989. * ''Arte Europeia Contemporânea – Colecção Marie e Volker Huber'', with João Cutileiro, José de Guimarães, Günter Grass, Heribert C. Ottersbach, Blek le Rat among others, Antigo mercado municipal de

Portimão Portimão () is a city and a municipality in the district of Faro (district), Faro, in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. The population in 2022 was 63,079 in an area of 182.06 km2. It was formerly known as Vila Nova de Portimão. In ...

, Portugal, 1993. * ''Art scramble'', Galerie

Michael Schultz Michael Schultz (born November 10, 1938) is an American director and producer of theater, film and television. Life and career Schultz was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of an African-American mother Katherine Frances Leslie (1917–199 ...

, with Ilja Heinig, Helge Leiberg, Cornelia Schleime among others, Berlin 1998. * ''Neuerwerbungen und Bilder aus dem Bestand des Söl'ring Foriining'', with Albert Aereboe, Franz Korwan among others,

er Heimatmuseum (since 2019 named Sylt Museum, Keitum /

, 2003. * ''Westkunst I - Kunst aus Nordfriesland - heute'', Messe Husum & Congress, Husum 2014. * ''Land, Stadt, Land – Blicke auf Berlin und Brandenburg – Bilder aus der Sammlung des Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg'', Art gallery Altes Rathaus, Fürstenwalde, with

Christo Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009), known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, were artists noted for their large-scale, site-specific environmental installations, often large landmarks a ...

, Klaus Fußmann, Harald Metzkes, Arno Mohr among others, 2016. * ''Rendezvous!'', Sylter Heimatmuseum (since 2019 named Sylt Museum), with Carl Christian Feddersen, Wenzel Hablik, Horst Janssen, Boy Lornsen, Magnus Weidemann, Edda Raspé, Dieter Röttger, Siegward Sprotte, Helene Varges and Hans-Jürgen Westphal, Keitum / Sylt, 2018. * ''Felsenküste – Azoren'', Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Norddeutsche Galerie / North German Gallery, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, with almost 150 exhibits from the museum's holdings from the time of the

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to the present day, including works by

, Emil Nolde,

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, Wenzel Hablik,

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, Karl Hartung, Jonathan Meese and the North German realists around Nikolaus Störtenbecker, 2018-2023. * ''H2O'', Galerie Michael W. Schmalfuss, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin 2020/2021. * ''Kunstschaffen'', Robbe & Berking, Flensburg, with Klaus Fussmann, Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański among others, 2021. * ''“Mal doch!“ Andreas Dirks (1865–1922)'', Sylt Museum, Keitum / Sylt, Andreas Dirks with Eugen Dücker, Theodor von Hagen, Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, Wilhelm Schneider-Didam, Alexander Essfeld and Ingo Kühl, 2022. * ''Glanzstücke. Bilder aus der Sammlung'', Sylt Museum, Keitum / Sylt, with Otto Eglau, Carl Christian Feddersen, Martin Frost, Willem Grimm, Hugo Köcke, Siegward Sprotte, Will Sohl, Helene Varges, Wolfgang Werkmeister among others, 2023. * ''Haus am Watt'', Sylt Museum, Keitum / Sylt, 2024/2025.

Public collections (selection)

* Akademie der Künste Berlin. * Berlinische Galerie, Berlin. * Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig. * Nordfriesland Museum, Nissenhaus, Husum. * National Museum of Vanuatu, Port Vila, Vanuatu. * University of Goroka, Papua New Guinea. * Sylt Museum, Keitum, Project ''Table on the Cliff''. * Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel.

Bibliography (selection)

Catalogues and books by Ingo Kühl

* ''Architektur-Phantasien'', Silkscreen prints, hand-colored, texts by Curt Grützmacher and Ingo Kühl, 1981. * ''Zeichnungen 1976–81'', exhibition catalogue, Zentrale Hochschulbibliothek of the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, No. 1–99 with Original-Drawing, 1982. * ''Nordsee-Bilder 1980–1983'', No. 1–20 with an Original picture, 1983. * '' Hommage à Hermann Finsterlin.'' In: Exhibition catalogue ''Kunstimpulse II – Hommage – Künstler zu Werken von Künstlern'', , Obere Galerie – Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin 1984. * Paul Scheerbart Ingo Kühl ''Glasarchitektur'', Texts Paul Scheerbart (1914) and Curt Grützmacher (editor), with 48 Silkscreen prints by Ingo Kühl, 1988. * '' Sarah Kirsch Ingo Kühl Luft und Wasser – Gedichte und Bilder’', Edition Heinz Ludwig Arnold, Steidl Verlag Göttingen, 1988 .'' * ''Gezeiten.'' In: ''Ingo Kühl Gezeiten 1989–1990'', with a foreword by Curt Grützmacher, Berlin 1992. Republished in: ''Ingo Kühl – Auf dem Weg ins Unbekannte.'' , Kettler Kunst, Bönen 2007, . * ''

– 24 Bilder zum gleichnamigen Liederzyklus von

– nach Gedichten von

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– gemalt nach der Interpretation von Barry McDaniel, Gesang – Jonathan Alder, Klavier'', Text Margret Schütte, Berlin 1996. * '' Seligpreisungen der Bergpredigt – colored

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by Ingo Kühl'', Berlin 1997. * '' Färöer – Bilderzyklus 15 Aquarelle · 9 Ölbilder'', Berlin 1998. * ''Sea and Sky'', exhibition catalogue, Galeria de Arte Vale do Lobo, Algarve, Portugal, Loulé 2002. * ''Nordsee – Südsee. Ölbilder · Arbeiten auf Papier · Tonreliefs 2002–2003'', Texts by Maria-Gesine Thies and Markus Schindlbeck, exhibition catalogue ''Südsee-Wellen – Bilder von Ingo Kühl'' at the Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, 2004, . * ''Macht der Natur – Bilder von Ingo Kühl auf Sylt gemalt'', 2005, . * ''Landschaften am Ende der Welt – Bilder von Ingo Kühl in Patagonien und Feuerland gemalt / Paisajes del fin del mundo – Cuadros de Ingo Kühl pintados en la

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'', Texts Antonio Skármeta and Ingo Kühl, Berlin 2006. * ''Auf dem Weg ins Unbekannte – Monografie mit Werkverzeichnis der Ölbilder 1978–2007'', with texts by Curt Grützmacher, Antonio Skármeta, Heinz Spielmann among others and poems by Sarah Kirsch, 2007, . * ''Skizzenbuch Neuseeland – Südsee – Peru'', 2007, . * ''Ars Borealis – Edition zur Zeitgenössischen Kunst im Norden – Ingo Kühl Sylt'', with Texts by Heinz Spielmann, Traugott Giesen, Petra Reiber and Rainer W. Ernst, Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 2009. * ''Papua New Guinea'', Text by Ingo Kühl (German / English), 2011, . * ''Architectural Fantasies with Texts by Heinz Spielmann, Rainer W. Ernst and Ingo Kühl and catalogues raisonné of the drawings, paintings, sculptures" ''(German / English) 2015, .'' * ''Das Haus am Watt'', Edition Schöne Bücher, 2015, . * ''In der Nähe des Meeres – Monografie und Werkverzeichnis der Ölbilder 2007–2017 with texts by Heinz Spielmann, Bernd Brandes-Druba and Uwe Haupenthal. Supplement to the monograph "Auf dem Weg ins Unbekannte" (2007), published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Nordfriesland Museum, Nissenhaus Husum, 22 April – 17 June 2018'', Verlag Kettler, Dortmund 2018, . * ''The Wise Tree'', text by Behzad Nashat, illustrated by Ingo Kühl, 2019, also published in German and French, . * ''Sylt literarisch „An diesem erschütternden Meere habe ich tief gelebt“'' with watercolors by Ingo Kühl, published by Werner Irro, 2021, . *''Kraft der Elemente auf Sylt. Bilder von Ingo Kühl und Märchen der Welt, erzählt von Linde Knoch'', 2022, . * ''Tagebuch eines Malers'', biography of Ingo Kühl published by Werner Irro, 2023, .

Writings about Ingo Kühl

* Heinz Ohff: ''"Architektur-Phantasien" von Ingo Kühl.'' In: ''

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'', Berlin, 21 March 1982. * Curt Grützmacher: ''Ingo Kühl Von der Nordseelandschaft zum Farbraum.'' In: ''Werkstattbesuche bei Künstlern in

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'', , FAB Verlag, Berlin 1989, . * Heinz Spielmann: ''Ingo Kühl Farbraum 1986.'' In: ''Jahrbuch des Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landesmuseums, Schloss Gottorf, Band II 1988–1989'', , Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1990, . * Gisela Weimann: ''Ingo Kühl.'' In: ''Ein Paradox zieht Kreise – Das Lebendige Museum wird zur Institution'', Galerie Lebendiges Museum, Berlin 1990. * Karl Waldeback: ''Visitor Artist exhibits in Port Vila'' In: Trading Post, Port Vila, Vanuatu, 9 June 2002. * Marisol Retamal: ''Artista aleman llego a la zona para captar los paisajes australes''. In: La Prensa Austral,

, Chile, 16 November 2005. * Andrea Rohmann: ''Architektur-Phantasien. Auf dem Weg ins Unbekannte''. In: "Sylt Coordinates" No. 6, , HC-Verlag Rohmann Jensen, Reinbeck 2010, . * Ute Jung-Kaiser: ''"... das Irren in einem Winter". Die endlos Wandernden – Der Leiermann in der Bildenden Kunst.'' In: ''Der Sänger Franz Schubert – Seelische Virtuosität in Text, Musik und Bild'', + (Illustrations), Lit Verlag, Berlin 2013, . * Thomas Gädeke: ''Wolkenbogen ziehen krönend – Sylt in der Malerei der Gegenwart.'' In: ''Sylt – entdecken, erleben genießen.'' , Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2015, .

Articles about Ingo Kühl in encyclopedias

* ''Wer ist wer? Das Deutsche Who's Who'', Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck, since 1990. * '' Kürschners Handbuch der Bildenden Künstler'', 2 volumes, , De Gruyter Saur Verlag, München, since 2007, . * ''Das neue Sylt Lexikon'', published by Harry Kunz and Thomas Steensen, , Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2007, . * ''Taschenlexikon Sylt'', published by Harry Kunz and Thomas Steensen, , Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster/Hamburg 2014, . * ''Nordfriesland. Menschen von A-Z'', by Thomas Steensen, , Publisher: Nordfriesland Museum. Nissenhaus Husum, 2020, . * ''Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon – Internationale Künstlerdatenbank online'', (AKL), De Gruyter Saur Verlag.

References

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