In his “Icons” series, Jean-Pierre Kunkel focuses on famous personalities from film, fashion, music, and entertainment.

By combining selected photographic elements, he creates unique portraits that reflect his personal interpretation of these internationally renowned icons.

Each work is created through digital processing and hand-finished with acrylic paint on canvas – a technique that gives each image its distinctive character.

Discover familiar faces reinterpreted through Kunkel’s artistic eye.

The motifs from the “Icons” edition are limited to 10 copies per size and are available in the formats 100 x 77 cm and 130 x 100 cm.

Jean-Pierre Kunkel’s works are subject to a special aesthetic requirement, the basis of which is the digital composition of precisely fitting visual elements. The motifs wisely optimized in this way unfold their engaging and extraordinary effect when translated into oil on canvas. This technique also underlies his latest series ICONS in the style of Pop Art. For this, Kunkel has drawn on the wealth of existing photographs of extraordinary characters from the movie, fashion, and entertainment industries. His Marilyn Monroe was created by combining various photographic elements that the artist reassembled like a jigsaw puzzle, thus creating his personal ideal of the internationally renowned icon. His works are painted digitally on the computer, then printed on canvas, stretched on stretcher bars, and finished manually with acrylic paint. Using his technique, Jean-Pierre Kunkel achieves a triple level of design that makes serial works unique. In this way, the unique artistic personalities and their creative achievements are brought out and appreciated in a special way. Fractal construction of the visual environment emphasizes the often complex personality and life structures of the protagonists, which contributes in large part to the enduring fascination around their personality.