Fritz Kühn
Sculptor, restorer and university teacher
Why Is Fritz Kühn Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Fritz Kühn was an East German visual artist whose output included sculpture, metal-artwork and photography. Life Provenance and early years Fritz Kühn was born into a Protestant family in the Mariendorf district of central Berlin, his father's only son. Artur Kühn , his father, was a metal worker and blacksmith who in 1925 founded and then over the years built up the specialist metals manufacturing firm known, initially, as A. Kühn & Co. Between 1924 and 1928 Fritz Kühn trained as a tool maker and metal worker. During this period he also began to take a serious interest in photography. In 1927, while still working through his apprenticeship, and two years after his parents had set up a business together in Berlin-Weissensee, Fritz Kühn met Karl Schmidt who became something of a mentor, encouraging him in his wish to go into business independently. Schmidt also shared and encouraged his enthusiasm for photography.
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