Jürgen Kuhl

Jürgen Kuhl is a German photo businessman who works as a freelance graphic designer and has become internationally known as a counterfeiter. Hans-Jürgen Kuhl was born in 1941 in Dattenfeld in the local community Windeck in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Kuhl's father was a factory owner. From 1944, he lived with his parents and four siblings in Cologne. He completed an apprenticeship as a photo businessman, and from 1970 he worked as a freelance graphic designer and repro photographer. In the graphic field, Kuhl specialized in collages from photographs and drawings, which he used as a source for the actual artistic end product: screen printing in his own studio. He is known to be an "extraordinary graphic designer" In Cologne, the city of art in Germany, painter and graphic artist Jurgen Kuhl met Andy Warhol for the first time. The American Pop Art artist had come on the occasion of the famous exhibition "From here .." to Duesseldorf 1984 on the Rhine. Kuhl, who had been fascinated by American Pop Art since the 1970s, began interpreting and successfully marketing motifs in coordination with the American artist. Warhol, with his keen sense of commercial art, took a liking to his admirer and copier and gave professional advice on subjects and screen-printing techniques. Over 110 Kuhl motifs in limited editions but also many original collages were created on the wave of Pop Art Trends in Germany. At the end of the 80s more than 2.000 signed works by the “Warhol from Cologne” hung in student apartments as well as in exclusive modern villas.