German sculptor and painter Erich Kuhn was married to pianist Lisa Kuhn. Their daughter Beate later became one of the most impressive ceramic artists in Germany. Kuhn first graduated as a school teacher for art, studying under Max Liebermann and Lovis Corinth. Subsequently, Kuhn studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin before he served as a volunteer in World War I. In 1918 he settled in the Black Forest and started sculpturing as an autodidact. After extensive travelling to various places in Italy, he moved to Düsseldorf in 1926 and started teaching at the local art academy. In 1932 he toured the Dutch East Indies.
Although some of his works were classified as “entartet” (degenerate) in 1937, he was commissioned to produce several large scale steel relief and sculptures for industrial buildings in Germany and allowed to take part in various exhibitions. During World War II the family’s home in Düsseldorf was bombed out and they moved to Hinterzarten / Black Forest. After World War II he taught at the School of Applied Arts in Wiesbaden from 1949-55. Two notable works are an ornate table, presented to Adolf Hitler in 1939 by steel industrialist Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, and the stone relief “History of Swimming” produced in the mid-1960s for the Rheinbad, Düsseldorf, at that time the largest swimming pool in Europe.
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