Karl Kueffel
Works & Biography
Born January 2nd, 1963. Weissenborn, Hessen, Germany.
Karl Kueffel,Two Figures,1997, Acrylic and Watercolor, 39 x 29 in.
Karl Kueffel, Night Dream, 2012, Mixed Media on Canvas, 54 x 42 In.
About Karl Kueffel
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Karl Kueffel artistic vision includes that as a child he studied under the leadership of Prof. Heinz Lembke-Rousseau and Jürgen Blum. Both, Lembke-Rousseau and Blum were private art teachers at the Rittershain Castle, near King Forest (Koenigswald), Germany. This experience gave Kueffel great to his future work. From 1971-1979 the artist studied with Prof. Jürgen Blum at the Monastery Cornberg Station, where Kueffel developed his first approach to abstract painting. After this basic artistic training, the artist developed a distinct style of painting and quickly established itself as an artistic newcomer. In his new paintings, Karl Kueffel combines traditional artistic aesthetics with contemporary elements through high-quality technology.
In 1991, Karl Küffel held his first major exhibition at Gallery Bauknecht, Munich. Since then, Kueffel has exhibited his work at the Gallery Differente, Hamburg, Gallery Perling, Krefeld, Morsum Huese Cultural Center, Sylt and at Gallery Siejes Saeule, Berlin. In 2000, Kueffel presented “Labyrinth of Passion" at the main Church, Thueringen. In 2001, Kueffel held a solo exhibition entitled “Old Berlin-New Berlin" at the Victory Column in Berlin. This exhibition was in collaboration with Dr. Dieter Vorsteher, Deputy Director of the German Historical Museum (the Deutsches Historisches Museum), Berlin. In 2003 he was represented at the art fair Kunstmesse, in Salzburg, Austria. Another solo exhibition “Film and Society 100 years” took place in 2004 at the Zeughaus, at the German Historical Museum, Berlin. He also exhibited in 2005 at the Film Museum, Muenchen. Currently the artist splits his time between Tenerife Island, Spain and Berlin, Germany. His paintings are in private and public collections, including the permanent collection of the German Historical Museum in Berlin, at the Welmar Europas Kulturhauptstadt, Thueringen and in the New York Goethe Institute. He is currently represented by the Aldo Castillo Gallery, U.S.A. Kueffel also been positively reviewed by historian and art critic, Prof. Dr. Hanns Theodor Flemming and published at the Die Welt magazine among others. - Essay written by Robert Metzger. ABOUT ROBERT METZGER Robert Metzger, Director Emeritus of the Reading Public Museum, served in that capacity at the Aldrich Museum, the Allentown Art Museum, and the Stamford Museum and Nature Center and worked as Curator for W. Hawkins Ferry in Grosse Pointe, Michigan and for Lydia Winston Malbin and Richard Brown Baker in New York. He is the author of St. Petersburg Realism (U.S.S.R.), Ronald Reagan: American Icon, Abstract Expressionism Lives!, Edward Hopper: Early Impressions, Franz Kline: the Jazz Murals, and British Romantic Art and monographs on Arakawa, Nakian, Stamos, Boghosian, Tobin, Stubbs, Stuempfig, Murray, Namingha, Meneeley, Press, Coyer, and Strauser. |
