Stefan Kürten

About the artist:

Stefan Kürten likes to say that every weekend of his childhood was spent accompanying his parents and their realtor in a search for the ideal home. Once that place was found, he was promised he could have a dog, and life would be complete. This deep and universal desire to find the perfect place, a place that will ensure well-being and the contentment we imagine it will bring is a recurrent theme in his painting practice and exemplified in the flourishing home garden patio of Too Beautiful to Last.

Kürten was a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where, as a young man, he studied with Michael Buthe. He is also an alumnus of the San Francisco Art Institute. Solo museum exhibitions include the Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany; Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf; Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; and Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, Germany. His work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Berkeley Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and many others. He lives with his wife and daughter in Düsseldorf.

Artwork in exhibition:

Stefan Kürten, Too Beautiful to Last, 2023, Acrylic, ink and mother of pearl on linen, 39 1/4 x 31 1/2 in., Courtesy of the artist and Hosfelt Gallery