KARL KUNZ THE FRANKFURT YEARS

September 7-November 10, 2018
Opening on Friday, September 7, 2018, 7 pm

Karl Kunz (1905-1971) had to interrupt the artistic career he had begun at the Burg Giebichenstein School of Arts and Crafts in Halle 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.

1950 showed Hanna Bekker vom Rath Kunz exhibited him in her Frankfurt art cabinet 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.

Fig: Karl Kunz, Acrobats with traffic signs, 1964, oil on hardboard, 134 x 100 cm, detail