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Huub Kortekaas (born 17 July 1935 in 's-Gravenzande) is a Dutch sculptor.
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Life and Work
Huub Kortekaas was born as the son of a gardener. Initially he chose the profession of teacher. At the age of 25 he made his first sculpture, a statue of Erasmus for the university at Nijmegen. At 30 he chose definitely to be an artist. As an artist he is self-taught. In 1969 he married Adelheid van Swelm, garden-architect. From then on they both worked closely together and form since 1999 an artists duo. Starting in 1995 he has built together with his wife The Tempelhof, a culmination of their life and work. Since 2002 they have worked together on The Universal Spiritual Garden as an imagination of the five world religions, by which they find inspiration in the symbolism of numbers.
Kortekaas is known by these large projects but certainly also by many monumental statues in the Netherlands and in other countries, that often are realised in corten steel.