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 was born in 1935 in Westland as 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 Radboud University at Nijmegen. Between 1960 and 1964 he worked in the Old Tower in Winssen and in 1965 he moved to Castle Doddendaal in Ewijk.

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

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. In 1999 they built The Tempelhof. Since 2002 they work on the monumental work of art, The Spiritual Garden, an imagination of the five world religions. The in 1984 initiated project Anima Mundi is in development for further realization. An already realised large project of them is The Unifying Spiritual Field of the World (1991). In between these major projects they made many monumental sculptures, which are often made of 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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