Edmund Kuehn

1916-2011

American (United States, Ohio, Columbus)

Edmund Kuehn was born in Columbus, Ohio and graduated from the Columbus Art School in 1938. He spent the following year at the Art Students League in New York studying with Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Vaclav Vytlacil, and Hans Hofmann. He returned to Columbus to take a curatorial position at the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (now the Columbus Museum of Art). At the time, he worked diligently to educate viewers about the outstanding Ferdinand Howald Collection of American Modernist art. Kuehn had a long and fruitful association with the museum, becoming Assistant Director in 1963. Between 1947 and 1962, Kuehn was also an Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting at the Columbus Art School (now Columbus College of Art and Design). He has traveled widely in Europe. His intimate and sophisticated work demonstrates a keen interest in, and understanding of, art history from Italian Early Renaissance pictorial design to multiple-perspective Cubist sculptural forms of the twentieth century.

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