Klaus Arnold(1928-2009)
Arnold studied art in Düsseldorf, Munich and Karlsruhe from 1945 to 1954. At the Karlsruhe Art Academy he was a student of the painter and lithographer Karl Hubbuch and the painter and graphic artist Erich Heckel. As early as 1955 he was awarded the Baden-Baden Youth Art Prize. The following year he received the scholarship in the cultural circle of the Federal Association of German Industry and the culture prize of the city of Karlsruhe. Two years later, in 1958, he was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Prize. In 1959 the artist was awarded the Rome Prize Scholarship Villa Massimo. During his studies, Arnold deepened and completed his knowledge of working with glass. The following year, in 1960, he followed the call of the Karlsruhe Art Academy, which had recently reopened.
A supporter and sponsor of this matter was the painter of the New Objectivity, Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, who himself taught there. Arnold held his professorship for painting and graphics there until 1994. Klaus Arnold was appointed professor in 1963. From 1976 he headed the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts as its director until 1988. Arnold was a top-class choice for the institution in other respects too. He was very committed to the structural development and change of the academy. Among other things, the establishment of the sculpture garden is due to his commitment. During his time as rector, Arnold gave the institution itself international reputation as a painting academy.
Arnold engaged, among others, internationally renowned artists such as the painter and sculptor Georg Baselitz. Klaus Arnold became known artistically for his sculpture works. They are particularly characterized by their formal language, which is based on plants and also combines spatially abstract ornaments. In this way he was also active in architecture. Arnold installed numerous sculptures as art in buildings, which adorn, among other things, the Luther Church in Karlsruhe as a window, the Philippus Church in Mannheim as a relief or the hall of the University of Bremen as a group of lights. But he was also active internationally in this field, as evidenced by his art in the building in the courtyard of the University of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.
In Karlsruhe, where he worked and where he spent the last years of his life, one of his pictures hangs in the middle foyer of the Baden State Theater. In 1990, a large overview of his work was shown in the Karlsruhe Municipal Gallery. On the artist's 80th birthday, in 2008, another exhibition took place in the Prinz-Max-Palais in Karlsruhe.
Klaus Arnold died on September 22, 2009 in Karlsruhe.
A supporter and sponsor of this matter was the painter of the New Objectivity, Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, who himself taught there. Arnold held his professorship for painting and graphics there until 1994. Klaus Arnold was appointed professor in 1963. From 1976 he headed the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts as its director until 1988. Arnold was a top-class choice for the institution in other respects too. He was very committed to the structural development and change of the academy. Among other things, the establishment of the sculpture garden is due to his commitment. During his time as rector, Arnold gave the institution itself international reputation as a painting academy.
Arnold engaged, among others, internationally renowned artists such as the painter and sculptor Georg Baselitz. Klaus Arnold became known artistically for his sculpture works. They are particularly characterized by their formal language, which is based on plants and also combines spatially abstract ornaments. In this way he was also active in architecture. Arnold installed numerous sculptures as art in buildings, which adorn, among other things, the Luther Church in Karlsruhe as a window, the Philippus Church in Mannheim as a relief or the hall of the University of Bremen as a group of lights. But he was also active internationally in this field, as evidenced by his art in the building in the courtyard of the University of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.
In Karlsruhe, where he worked and where he spent the last years of his life, one of his pictures hangs in the middle foyer of the Baden State Theater. In 1990, a large overview of his work was shown in the Karlsruhe Municipal Gallery. On the artist's 80th birthday, in 2008, another exhibition took place in the Prinz-Max-Palais in Karlsruhe.
Klaus Arnold died on September 22, 2009 in Karlsruhe.