Kurtfritz Handel

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 (selection):

2005 Stuttgart, Inter-Art-Galerie; Ditzingen, Städtische Galerie im Laien

2006 Herbergenmuseum des Münchner Stadtmuseums

2007 Hermannstadt (Sibiu), Rumänien, Evangelische Stadtpfarrkirche

2008 Brüssel, Belgien, Vertretung des Landes Baden-Württemberg bei der EU

2009 Dinkelsbühl, Evangelisches Gemeindehaus St. Paul

2010 Siebenbürgisches Museum Gundelsheim, Schloss Horneck, Nürtingen, Forum Türk

2011 Stuttgart, Galerie InterArt; Kornwestheim, Museum im Kleihuesbau

2012 Zerbst/Anhalt, Museum der Stadt Zerbst/Anhalt