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Fritz Huhnen
(1895 Krefeld -- 1981 Krefeld)








26 December 1895 born in Krefeld
1911 began architecture studies and visited the Kunstgewerbeschule in Krefeld.
1915 he worked as free-lance painter. Member of the groups Junges Rheinland und Rheinische Sezession.
1915 to 1918 As a soldier, worked as a war artist in France and Russia and was a set painter at the Fronttheater in Montmédy.
From 1924 he was active as a stage designer at the Krefelder Stadttheater as well as a draughtsman for the Generalanzeiger and the Westdeutsche Zeitung.
1926 first solo exhibition with the Galerie Flechtheim in Duesseldorf. A one year stay in Berlin followed.
1943 Kuhnen’s studio, library, murals and numerous works were destroyed in heavy bombing. After this, Fritz Huhnen with the Krefelder theatre went to the Schlesien mountains. He was then conscripted into the military.
1945 became a prisoner of war of the British
After 1946 he was active as a stage designer, press draughtsman and free-lance artist.
1947 Kuhnen became a member of the Münchener Künstlervereinigung Neue Gruppe and took part in their exhibitions. His book Gute, Böse und Krefelder was published.
Huhnen received the Thorn Prikker Ehrenplakette of the city of Krefeld in 1961.
On his 70th birthday in 1966 he was honoured with the Ehrenschild der Stadt Krefeld.
1975 the republication of Christian Morgenstern’s Palmström appeared with 80 drawings by Huhnen
Fritz Huhnen died on 15 December 1981.



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