Biography
Horst Egon Kalinowski (b. Dusseldorf, Germany 1924 - d. 2013) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf (1945-48). In 1949-1950, he stayed in Italy, Rome and Venice. From 1950 to 1952, in Paris, he was a student in the abstract art workshop of Jean Dewasne and Edgard Pillet, at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. He began exhibiting at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in Paris, in 1953, 1954, 1956, he then participated in numerous group exhibitions, including: 1963 L'art de montage at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Mythologies daily at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris; 1965 and 1968 at the Camegie Institute in Piltsburgh; 1967 at the Marzotto Prize in Milan, and Second Decade 1955-1965 at the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence; Living art 1965-1968 at the Maeght Foundation and in 1984 the IInd European Biennial of Sculpture of Normandy in Jouy-sur-Eure. He also had solo exhibitions, in Paris at the Arnaud gallery in 1953, 1954, 1955, Creuze gallery in 1956, Daniel Cordier gallery in 1958, 1963, as well as in Frankfurt am Main, Wuppertal, Brussels.
In 1964 he made trips to Greece and America; in 1965 in Spain and America. In 1966 he was awarded the Carl-Einstein Prize in Essen, and made two trips to America. In 1967 he was awarded the First Prize for Sculpture, Prix Burda, from the Kunsthaus in Munich. In 1968 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, and was appointed member of the Prussian Academy in Berlin. After 1956, numerous solo exhibitions took place in different cities of Germany, in several European countries, in New York, etc., notably: in 1967 at the Stàdtische Kunsthalle in Mannheim, at the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg, at the Stadtische Kunstsammlungen in Bonn, in 1968 at the Center National d'Art Contemporain in Paris, in 1991 at the Chave de Vence gallery.
Until 1956, he produced non-figurative paintings, which were influenced by the purism of Ozenfant and Jeanneret and soon abandoned painting for the collage and assembly of various materials, electively all brown, which tend to imitate the material of leather or are meticulously covered, branches, stumps, planks, boxes, saddles. In the 1960s he was also making etchings. From 1980, he started to make objects with the actual material leather.
