Kunath Friedrich

(b. 1974, Chem­nitz, Ger­ma­ny) stu­died at the Braun­schweig Uni­ver­si­ty of Arts,Braun­schweig, Ger­ma­ny, and now lives and works in Los An­ge­les, CA. Ku­nath uti­li­zes a per­so­nal style of ro­man­tic con­cep­tu­a­lism, laye­ring po­e­tic phra­ses with poi­gnant, often me­lan­cho­ly image­ry. The work em­bra­ces co­me­dy and pa­thos, evo­king uni­ver­sal fee­lings of love, hope, lon­ging, and de­spair. The ar­tist’s per­so­nal jour­ney from Ger­ma­ny to Los An­ge­les plays a key role in his work, in­cor­po­ra­ting Ger­man Ro­man­ti­cism and wes­tern po­pu­lar cul­ture, with still life, car­toon image­ry, com­mer­ci­al il­lus­tra­ti­on, na­ture pho­to­gra­phy and ly­ri­cal re­fe­rences.
The first major mo­no­graph de­vo­ted to Ku­na­th’s life and work was pu­blis­hed in 2018 by Riz­zo­li Elec­ta, fea­tu­ring con­tri­bu­ti­ons by James El­kins, James Frey, Ari­a­na Rei­nes, and John McEn­roe.