Karl Kunz (1905-1971) had to complete his studies at the Burg Giebichenstein School of Arts and Crafts in Halle. interrupted the artistic career he had begun due to the ban on painting imposed on him by the Nazis. He painted in secret, but lost most of his early work in a bombing raid in 1944. In 1950, Hanna Bekker vom Rath showed him in her Frankfurt Kunstkabinett in an exhibition taken over from the Villa Stuck in Munich. In 1957, Kunz rented a studio on Merianstrasse in Frankfurt am Main. More than half of his oeuvre was created in the Frankfurt years until his death. The gallery is showing works from this period from his estate, and a catalog will be published to accompany the exhibition.

Biographical data Karl Kunz

1905 born on November 23 in Augsburg
1919-1921 Private lessons with the painter Gustav E. Schmidt in Augsburg
1921-1927 self-taught further training in Munich
1927-1930 freelance artist in Berlin,
Participation in the "Juryfreie Kunstschau" in 1928 and 1929
1930-1933 Master student and assistant to Professor Erwin Hahs at the Burg Giebichenstein School of Arts and Crafts in Halle/Saale
1933 Dismissed, arrested and banned from painting as a "degenerate artist"
1934 Return to Augsburg,
Takeover of the parental pet shop
1939-1945 drafted into the "Security and Relief Service" in Augsburg
1944 Destruction of his parents' house and thus of almost his entire artistic oeuvre in a bombing raid
1945 New start as a freelance artist
1947-1949 Teacher at the state school for arts and crafts in Saarbrücken
1951 1st Domnick Prize (2nd prize: Fritz Winter, 3rd prize: Rupprecht Geiger)
1953 Move to Weilburg in Hesse
1954 Participation in the Venice Biennale
1957 Studio in Frankfurt am Main
1959-1960 Guest lecturer at the State School of Arts and Crafts
in Saarbrücken
1969 Honorary stay at the Villa Massimo in Rome
1971 Died on May 22 in Frankfurt am Main

Works by Karl Kunz can be found, among others, in the following
Museums, foundations and collections:

• Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
• Moritzburg Art Museum, Halle (Saale)
• Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
• New National Gallery, Berlin
• Museum Folkwang, Essen
• Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich
• Augsburg art collections and museums
• Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
• Germanic National Museum, Nuremberg
• Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
• Morat Institute for Art and Art Studies, Freiburg im Breisgau
• Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern
• Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken
• Upper Hesse Museum, Giessen
• MdM, Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg
• Darmstadt Municipal Art Collections
• Hessian State Museum, Darmstadt
• Domnick Foundation, Nürtingen
• Benetton Collection, Milan