Charles Kohl | |
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| Born | Charles Kohl 16 April 1929 |
| Died | 3 January 2016 (age 86) Berschbach, Luxembourg |
| Education | École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (1948–1952) and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1953–1955). |
| Known for | Sculpting, painting, lecturing |
| Awards | Prix Grand-Duc Adolphe (1956 and 1962) |
Charles Kohl (16 April 1929 - 3 January 2016) was a sculptor, painter and lecturer from Luxembourg.
Born in Rodange (Luxembourg), Charles Kohl started his fine arts studies in Luxembourg-City at the Lycée des Arts et Métiers under Lucien Wercollier (1945–48), then continued at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (1948-1952) and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1953-1955) in Paris. He went on to forge a distinguished career as a fine artist in his native country, being awarded twice the coveted Prix Grand-Duc Adolphe (in 1956 and 1962). He participated in numerous collective international exhibitions but also regularly exhibited at individual exhibitions.
Fresh from his studies, Charles Kohl took on teaching in 1956 as assistant professor of arts at first at the Lycée des Arts et Métiers, and later (in the 1970s and 1980s) at the Lycée Technique du Centre in Luxembourg City. Concurrently, he worked as a book illustrator, [1] as a poster designer for Luxembourg's National Lottery, and as cartoonist at the magazine Revue (under the nickname "Carlo"), [2] but more importantly as an independent artist from his artist's studio in Bonnevoie. He secured a number of important commissions for monuments and sculptures, several of them in churches throughout Luxembourg.
In his early sixties, arthritis -brought about by years of chiseling marble and granite- started to plague his shoulders, so Kohl reluctantly gave up working the hard stone and concentrated on working in terracotta and on drawings/paintings.
Towards the end of the 1990s, Charles Kohl started to suffer from macular degeneration. His deteriorating health implied that he could no longer live by himself and so he moved in 2010 into a home for the blind in Berschbach. In spite of his vision being down to a mere 4% in the last year of his life, he still produced drawings up to a couple of months before his death on 3 January 2016.
As a sculptor, Kohl was best known for his works in marble frequently showing veiled forms, but also for his bronzes and his mixed media drawings, which "with their often fragmentary bodies and faceless heads, created a stylized human anatomy symbolizing both the vulnerability and the power of body and soul", [3] and which have earned him a reputation as "Illustrator of the human condition". [4] During the private view of the Charles Kohl retrospective in Luxembourg's Villa Vauban -held online because of the pandemic- the critic Paul Bertemes called Charles Kohl: "Either a particularly three-dimensional painter, or a particularly well-drawn sculptor". [5]
Upon his death in 2016, the Luxemburger Wort declared "Luxembourg's art scene is grieving for a virtuoso artist with a remarkable sensitivity". [6]
Throughout 2020, the Villa Vauban devotes a major retrospective to the artist [7] whom the Luxemburger Wort called "An illustrious unknown". [8] The Luxemburger Wort reviewed "The timeless and tortured sculptures of Charles Kohl", [9] while Redlion [10] and RTL [11] called him "one of Luxembourg's most important sculptors."
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