A Wall Relief 'The Hunt I'
Richard Kuöhl (Meißen 1880 - Rohlfshagen 1961)
Lot-No. 542
1920. Iron relief, black patinated. 78 x 59 cm. Right below sign. and dated AD 1920 R. KUÖHL. The relief shows a hunting scene with an Amazon, stag, wild boar and hare. - Kuöhl's estate in the Stormarn district archive contains a photograph with an identical motif (here described as a work for the steamship SS Deutschland) - After training as a potter in Meissen and studying at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts, Kuöhl initially moved to Berlin in 1906. In 1912, he followed his Dresden architecture professor Fritz Schumacher to Hamburg. K. executed a large part of the architectural decoration on Schumacher's state buildings and was one of the city's busiest sculptors in the 1920s and 1930s. He developed a weatherproof architectural ceramic known as Klinkerkeramik. His work not only adorns many buildings in Hamburg, but can also still be found in other cities in northern Germany, such as Lübeck. Lit.: Norbert Fischer: Richard Kuöhl. In: Stormarn Lexikon online, 2020
Richard Kuöhl: A Wall Relief 'The Hunt I'
Richard Kuöhl (Meißen 1880 - Rohlfshagen 1961)
A Wall Relief 'The Hunt I'
Lot-No. 542
1920. Iron relief, black patinated. 78 x 59 cm. Right below sign. and dated AD 1920 R. KUÖHL. The relief shows a hunting scene with an Amazon, stag, wild boar and hare. - Kuöhl's estate in the Stormarn district archive contains a photograph with an identical motif (here described as a work for the steamship SS Deutschland) - After training as a potter in Meissen and studying at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts, Kuöhl initially moved to Berlin in 1906. In 1912, he followed his Dresden architecture professor Fritz Schumacher to Hamburg. K. executed a large part of the architectural decoration on Schumacher's state buildings and was one of the city's busiest sculptors in the 1920s and 1930s. He developed a weatherproof architectural ceramic known as Klinkerkeramik. His work not only adorns many buildings in Hamburg, but can also still be found in other cities in northern Germany, such as Lübeck. Lit.: Norbert Fischer: Richard Kuöhl. In: Stormarn Lexikon online, 2020
