Horst Kuhnert | Koenigshof Collection

serigraphy | special limited edition | silk-screen artist print | signed
Left: Andy Warhol

The artist Horst Kuhnert is one of the great masters of concrete-constructive art. It is no wonder that in 1930, in the turbulent years between the First and Second World Wars, Theo van Doesburg founded an artists’ association called “Art Concret”, which was based on geometric, often mathematically calculable forms. Inspired by the observation of perfect laws of order such as the unit of measurement of the golden ratio, the human spirit was to experience universal order and perfection.

Horst Kuhnert’s work is part of this tradition. For many decades, his works have been exhibited in museums and have shaped public spaces. The first large sculptures and large wall and room installations were created in 1969.

Kuhnert was one of the first artists in Germany to work with plastic. Large-scale paintings and small editions with serigraphs are created in Horst Kuhnert’s studio on an equal footing with his sculptural works. This is an artistic screen printing technique, for which silk fabrics (sericus in Latin) were originally laid over the screens.

Eva Mueller | Art Consultant
Curator of the Koenigshof Collection

VITA HORST KUHNERT (short form)

Horst Kuhnert was born in Schweidnitz in 1939 | 1957-1962 Studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart under Prof. Heinrich Wildemann | 1963 transition from abstract painting to sculptural works | 1964 development of the concept ‘From the surface into the space’ reliefs made of polyester ‘spatial surfaces’ | 1965 sculptures made of polyester ‘spatial bodies’ | 1969 first large sculptures as well as large wall and room installations | 1989 start of the work group ‘Stabil-Instabil’ sculptures and objects made of wood and metal as well as new paintings and graphics | 1998 from the work group ‘Stabil-Instabil’ parallel works on the theme ‘Constructed Deconstruction’ are created.

AWARDS, WORKS IN PUBLIC SPACE, AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (selection)

1970 Prize of the Kingdom of Nepal at the International Art Exhibition in Kathmandu | 1985 Promotion Prize of the State of Lower Saxony

1970 free sculpture, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, district court | 1972 free sculpture, Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Waldburgschule | 1974/1977 free sculpture, spatial body 74 s.w., Kornwestheim, town hall | 1975 sculpture from inside to outside, Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, indoor swimming pool | 1976 polyester sculpture, Stuttgart-Degerloch, Straifstraße | 1976-2010 spatial body 76, Stuttgart-Botnang | 1976 spatial body S.W.3T. Rottweil-Hausen, KUNSTdünger Rottweil | 1977 large sculpture, Leonberg, town hall | 1982 spatial body 82, Stuttgart-West, Bismarck-Platz | 1984 free sculpture, spatial body 84 w.2T., Göppingen, Stadtpark | 1987 Narrenbrunnen, Stuttgart, Kronprinzenstrasse | 1989 spatial body 89, Aalen, Kreiskrankenhaus | 1990 artistic overall design, Stuttgart-Feuerbach, Stadtbahn stop Wilhelm-Geiger-Platz | 1990 Rathausbrunnen, Lorch | 1993 Stabil-Instabil, spatial body 93 C.St.42/1, Nettetal-Hinsbeck, Kunstweg