Description
Kurtfritz Handel (1941-2016)
Kurtfritz Handel was born as a Romanian/German in Râmnicu Vâcea. He had the opportunity to deal with the craft of sculpture as a high school student. He attended an art school in the Transylvanian city of Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg). After the subsequent study of sculpture and art history at the “state academy of arts” (staatlichen Akademie der Künste) where he graduated as a master student undter the tutelage of Artur Vetros, he worked as an art teacher and freelance artist in Sibiu (Hermannstadt). In 1985, he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany. Here he worked as a principal and teacher at the youth art school in Nürtingen.
Handel’s artistic work includes landscape and animal sculptures, portraits, figurative sculptures and drawings. Impressive about his work is his understanding of forms, which is marked even in broad abstraction with a deep sense of humour.
Exhibitions :
2015
Bad Wimpfen, gallery in the old hospital
2012
Stuttgart, Hotel Le Meridien
Zerbst/Anhalt, Museum of the City of Zerbst/Anhalt
2011
Stuttgart, Gallery InterArt
Kornwestheim, Museum in the Kleihuesbau
Sweet, City Hall
Nuremberg, Krafft’scher Hof
2010 Transylvanian Museum Gundelsheim, Horneck Castle
Nürtingen, Forum Turk
Frickenhausen, Volksbank Hohenneuffen, Frickenhausen and Linsehofen
2009 Dinkelsbühl, Evangelical Parish Hall St. Paul
2008 Brussels, Belgium, Representation of the State of Baden-Württemberg to the EU
2007 Hermannstadt (Sibiu), Romania, Evangelical Parish Church of Frickenhausen, Greiner Bio-one
2006 Holzgerlingen, Kalteneck Castle
Munich, Üblacker-Häusl, hostel museum of the Munich City Museum
2005 Nürtingen, Metabowerke
Stuttgart, Inter-Art-GalerieDitzingen, City Gallery in LaienAidlingen, City Hall, with Renate Mildner-Müller, watercolor, calligraphy
2004 Frickenhausen, town hall
2003 Göppingen, Südwestmetall
2002 Heilbronn, Munich Town Hall, House of the German East
2001 Dinkelsbühl, Evangelical parish hall of St. PaulNürtingen, town hall
1998 Stuttgart, gallery INTER ART Filderstadt, municipal gallery, with Martin Knispel, painting Nürtingen, studio gallery in the artist house
1997 Holtz, Luxembourg, Youth Center Colpach, Luxembourg, Castle Garden
1996 Ehningen, nursing home
1995 Kufstein, Austria, Stadtsaal
1994 Schriesheim, town hall
1990 Munich, Bavarian State Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, with Renate Mildner-Müller, painting Korntal-Münchingen, Widdumhof
1989 Stuttgart, Gallery INTER ART
1988 Heilbronn, harmony, with Helfried Weiss, graphic sweets, tithe barn
1986 Esslingen am Neckar, Gallery of the Artists’ Guild Nürtingen, Martin-Luther-Hof
1981. Sibiu (Hermannstadt), Sirius Gallery Bucharest, Eforie Gallery, with Lidia Cireşica Crainic, textile spatial structure
1987 Sibiu (Hermannstadt), Sirius Gallery
1971 Bucharest, Kulturhaus “Friedrich Schiller”, with Horst Zay, graphics