Hugo Kükelhaus

Visual artist

Portrait Hugo Kükelhaus Kükelhaus is most well known for his ‘experience field for developing the senses’ which, with the support of famous scientists and educators, was shown for the first time at Expo 1967 in Montreal.

Life is a perpetual practice - Hugo Kükelhaus

Hugo Kükelhaus and Wolfram Graubner first joined forces in Herrischried/the Black Forest where Graubner had founded a carpentry and joinery workshop. Their intensive collaboration led to the first “play stations for developing the senses” for public areas.

Designs in the Richter programme

10.96000 Stone Pendulum

10.93000 Partner Swing Pyramid

10.11000 Impulse Spheres

10.14000 Moiré Disc

7.89552 Roating Disc for Curve

10.45000 Stone Harp

10.46000 Stone Xylophone

10.52400 Tubular Chimes

10.53100 Tubular-Dendrophone

10.53200 Sound Arch with 5 tones

10.91540 Turning Stone

10.73200 Large Balancing Disc

Born in 1900, Hugo Kükelhaus trained in carpentry and joinery after completing his high school certificate and then went on to become a master craftsman. Following this, he studied sociology, mathematics and physiology in Heidelberg, Münster and Königsberg. He worked as a visual artist, writer and publisher and taught architecture and pedagogy. Today there are several schools named after him and there are Kükelhaus foundations in Germany and Switzerland.