Ingo Kühl (born 29 June 1953 in Bovenau) is a German painter, sculptor and architect.
Grown up in Bovenau near Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein as a son of a policeman, Ingo Kühl attended the Theodor-Storm-Realschule in Hanerau-Hademarschen and after having trained as a carpenter and a Technical Drawer he studied Architecture at the Technical College Kiel and Architecture and Fine Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts. Drawings influenced by Surrealism arise durind this time and he developed Architectural Fantasies . He turns towards painting, travels in Europa (first sketchbooks). 1977 followed a trip to Israel, Sinai Peninsula, 1978 he participatied in an excursion to Teheran led by Prof. Rainer Ernst, with a sojourn in Isfahan. Since 1980 he ran apart from Berlin additional studios on the North Sea peninsula Eiderstedt (until 1994), subsequently on Amrum, Nordstrand and (since 2002) on Sylt. 1982 he ran a Studio in Brooklyn, New York. 1984 he became a Member of the Chamber of Architects Berlin as "self-employed architect". Attempt to build Hermann Finsterlin's Architecture Visions. In 1987 he resigned from the Chamber of Architects. In 1988 he published the book "Luft und Wasser - Gedichte und Bilder" with Sarah Kirsch in the Steidl Verlag. First bronze casting of an Architectural Sculpture.
In 1998 he created the Image cycle „Four Seasons“, and won the 1st prize at the Johanniter hospital in Fläming, Treuenbrietzen near Berlin. In 2000 he made a trip around the world: Thailand, Laos, New Zealand, South Pacific, Peru. In 2001 he married Annette Kühl and they both spent a year in the South Pacific: Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Fiji, Vanuatu. He painted South Pacific pictures. Travels followed to Chile (Picture cycle „Landscapes of the End of the World“) and Papua New Guinea (2010 and 2012). In 2019 he took part in the project "Tisch am Kliff" (Table on the Cliff): Two bronze plates each on the theme of 5000 years of Sylt history designed and assembled into a table plate by five artists, set up on the Wadden Sea in the immediate vicinity near the Sylt Museum in Keitum / Sylt.
Ingo Kühl lives in Berlin and Keitum / Sylt
Ingo Kühl (born 29 June 1953 in Bovenau) is a German painter, sculptor and architect.
Grown up in Bovenau near Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein as a son of a policeman, Ingo Kühl attended the Theodor-Storm-Realschule in Hanerau-Hademarschen and after having trained as a carpenter and a Technical Drawer he studied Architecture at the Technical College Kiel and Architecture and Fine Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts. Drawings influenced by Surrealism arise durind this time and he developed Architectural Fantasies . He turns towards painting, travels in Europa (first sketchbooks). 1977 followed a trip to Israel, Sinai Peninsula, 1978 he participatied in an excursion to Teheran led by Prof. Rainer Ernst, with a sojourn in Isfahan. Since 1980 he ran apart from Berlin additional studios on the North Sea peninsula Eiderstedt (until 1994), subsequently on Amrum, Nordstrand and (since 2002) on Sylt. 1982 he ran a Studio in Brooklyn, New York. 1984 he became a Member of the Chamber of Architects Berlin as "self-employed architect". Attempt to build Hermann Finsterlin's Architecture Visions. In 1987 he resigned from the Chamber of Architects. In 1988 he published the book "Luft und Wasser - Gedichte und Bilder" with Sarah Kirsch in the Steidl Verlag. First bronze casting of an Architectural Sculpture.
In 1998 he created the Image cycle „Four Seasons“, and won the 1st prize at the Johanniter hospital in Fläming, Treuenbrietzen near Berlin. In 2000 he made a trip around the world: Thailand, Laos, New Zealand, South Pacific, Peru. In 2001 he married Annette Kühl and they both spent a year in the South Pacific: Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Fiji, Vanuatu. He painted South Pacific pictures. Travels followed to Chile (Picture cycle „Landscapes of the End of the World“) and Papua New Guinea (2010 and 2012). In 2019 he took part in the project "Tisch am Kliff" (Table on the Cliff): Two bronze plates each on the theme of 5000 years of Sylt history designed and assembled into a table plate by five artists, set up on the Wadden Sea in the immediate vicinity near the Sylt Museum in Keitum / Sylt.
Ingo Kühl lives in Berlin and Keitum / Sylt