Sculptor and engraver Horst Egon Kalinowski was born in Düsseldorf (Germany) in 1924.From 1945 to 1948, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in his native city, where he exhibited in 1947. In 1949-1950, he spent time in Italy, in Rome and Venice. Then, from 1950 to 1952, he moved to Paris, where he became a student in the abstract art workshop of

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  Sculptor and engraver Horst Egon Kalinowski was born in Düsseldorf (Germany) in 1924.From 1945 to 1948, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in his native city, where he exhibited in 1947. In 1949-1950, he spent time in Italy, in Rome and Venice. Then, from 1950 to 1952, he moved to Paris, where he became a student in the abstract art workshop of Jean Dewasne and Edgard Pillet, at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Kalinowski admits to having been influenced by these two masters, in that he learned that the expression of emotion could flow into the rigor of form. His painting would then be close to the Purism of an Ozenfant or a Le Corbusier, with a highly constructed, stripped-down figurative style. He began exhibiting at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in Paris, in 1953, 1954 and 1956, and went on to participate regularly in numerous group shows (France, United States, Italy, Germany, Belgium, etc.).Kalinowski then naturally shifted to a more strictly abstract expression, and in 1954 and 1955 exhibited freshly colored gouaches, followed by paintings, at Galerie Arnaud (Paris). This was followed by exhibitions at Galerie Creuze (1956) and Daniel Cordier (1958). After this so-called "cold" period, during which he sought, in his own words, to express "a new spirituality", his painting became more flexible and opened up to contemporary research. Foreign elements were introduced, and collage and the assembly of the most diverse objects made up the bulk of his production for several years. His work evolved rapidly, with the use of wood, leather and metal, which the artist transformed into sometimes monumental wall reliefs, such as doors or what he called "meubles" (1963, Galerie D. Cordier).His painting gradually detaches itself from the wall, its original support, to become a "stele" and truly a sculpture. His stacking of various elements is reminiscent of Louise Nevelson's altarpieces. At the same time, Horst Egon Kalinowski pursued an important career in collage. From the early 60s onwards, Kalinowski also produced engravings; in 1964, he illustrated Japanese poems with etchings, followed by others for Saint Francis of Assisi's "Cantique à notre frère Soleil" and, in 1967, for "Les sept jours de la Création". In the early '80s, his work adopted a more structured three-dimensionality, combining wood and leather in quasi-organic concretions. In 1968, the C.N.A.C. in Paris devoted a major retrospective to his work. Also in 1968, the artist taught at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts, and was appointed a member of the Prussian Academy in Berlin. Horst Egon Kalinowski died in Düsseldorf in 2013.
  

  

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