Huub en Adelheid Kortekaas


De Tempelhof

Huub and Adelheid Kortekaas present themselves as artists duo since 1999, although they actually have worked together since their marriage in 1969.

Huub Kortekaas

"Sitting Angel on reversed flower pot"

Huub Kortekaas, a Dutch sculptor, was born 17 July 1935 in 's-Gravenzande, the son of a gardener. He initially chose the profession of teacher, but made at the age of 25 his first sculpture, a large statue of Erasmus for the university at Nijmegen. At 30 he chose definitely to be an artist. As an artist he is self-taught. Between 1960 and 1964 he worked in the Old Tower in Winssen and in 1965 he moved to Castle Doddendaal in Ewijk.

Adelheid Kortekaas

Adelheid van Swelm, born in 1947 in Nijmegen, and studied garden architecture with a passion for architecture.

Life and Work

They married in 1969. From then on they both worked closely together and from since 1999 as a duo. In 1970 their first joint artproject The Circle of Angels arose, a colorful environment of large polyester statues. Since 1974 their work has the theme of 'The Plant' as a metaphor for man.

Starting in 1995 he has built together with his wife The Tempelhof, a culmination of their life and work. The Anima Mundi initiated project in 1984 and is in development for further realization. An already realised large project of them is The Unifying Spiritual Field of the World (1991). Since 2002 they have worked together on The Universal Spiritual Garden as an imagination of the five world religions, by which they find inspiration in the symbolism of numbers.

They are known for large projects but also for many monumental statues in the Netherlands and in other countries, that often are realised in corten steel. Their works are found mainly in the Netherlands but also in Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, France, England, Dubai and Palestine. The philosophy behind their work is in 2012 expressed in the Manifest Utopia: Life as Work of art.

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