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=== Early Life ===
Tomas Kurth attended [[Dillmann-Gymnasium]] in Stuttgart.<ref name="tomkurth">{{Cite web | url=http://www.tomkurth.com/uber-2/| title=Tomas Kurth - vita on his official website | language=de | accessdate=2024-08-23}}</ref> In the 1970s, he lived in an alternative commune in [[Schwarzwald]] area.<ref name="postmondaen" /> From the mid 1970s, Kurth studied graphics design in Stuttgart under
In the 1980s, Kurth designed and painted photo backgrounds for advertising campaigns commissioned by [[Porsche]], [[Lancia]] and [[Fiat]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.tomkurth.com/foto/hintergrunde/ | title=Examples for advertising campaigns with photos on Tomas Kurth's website.| date=4 January 2013| accessdate=2024-08-23}}</ref> He also worked in various creative positions on advertising photo shoots produced by [[Scholz & Friends]], [[Springer & Jacoby]] and other agencies for [[Mercedes-Benz]], [[Jaguar Cars|Jaguar]] and [[Robert Bosch GmbH|Bosch]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.tomkurth.com/foto/spezialeffekte/ | title=List of selection of advertising campaigns, as well as some examples on Tomas Kurth's website| date=14 January 2013| accessdate=2024-08-23}}</ref> Since the 1980s, Kurth also realised various murals in collaboration with their designers, such as [[Tomi Ungerer]]'s ''les toilettes'' in Plochingen.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.tomkurth.com/fassade/fassade/ | title=Tomas Kurth – Account about the mural painting| language=de | accessdate=2024-08-23}}</ref>
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=== Freelance Artist ===
Since 1992, Kurth is working as a freelance artist with studios in Stuttgart and Ulm.<ref name="tomkurth" /> Since the 1980s, he has presented his works at various exhibitions<ref name="Presse94">{{Cite web | url=http://galeriereinholdmaas.kunstundfolgen.de/press_ein_bilder/94/pres941d.htm| title=Various scanned press clippings for a 1994 exhibit in Reutlingen. | accessdate=2023-08-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://artfacts.net/exhibition/tomas-kurth-der-kubismus-und-andere-wertvolle-gemaelde/249385| title=Entry on artfacts.net about Kurth's solo exhibit "Der Kubismus und andere wertvolle Gemälde" from 20 October - 18 November 1999 in Reutlingen| accessdate=2024-08-23}}</ref><ref>''Kunst im Schloss'', in: Kultur am Bodensee, No. 05 (July/August) 2009, p. 13.</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.kultur-machen.de/KULTSPACE-2.0/Belegung-und-Programm| title=Kulturplattform Reutlingen: Entry about exhibit "eat art happening" from 25 September - 1 October 2023 in Reutlingen| accessdate=2024-08-23}}</ref> primarily in Southern Germany.<ref name="Wochenblatt">''Kaleidoskop der Moderne''. In: Singener Wochenblatt, 25 July 2012, p. 39.</ref> In Stuttgart-West, Kurth operates the ''Bildbar'', his own gallery where his works are exhibited. It has been called a "popular art meeting place".<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.lange-nacht.de/orte/bildbar/ | title=Long night of the museums, Stuttgart 2019: Entry for
Kurth's artistic oeuvre spans various genres and styles. As of 2024, he has created several hundred paintings and a large number of drawings and etchings.<ref name="postmondaen" /> Around 2010, he did a series of more than one hundred paintings depicting islands, which received attention in the press.<ref name="Inseln">{{cite news |last=Schwarz |first=Julia |date=2010-09-03 |title=Einsame Inseln gibt es in der Bildbar nicht |trans-title=There are no lonely islands in Bildbar |url= |language=de |publisher=[[Stuttgarter Zeitung]]}}</ref> From 2020, with his "Monuments" (''Denkmäler'') series, Kurth for a while specialised in statues. By the summer of 2021, the series comprised around 40 sculptures.<ref name="Allegorie">{{Cite web | url=https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.auf-der-schwabstrasse-in-s-west-allegorie-des-lockdowns.a547db5e-0b6f-46d5-8e60-1629ae00a4bf.html | title=Allegorie des Lockdowns | accessdate=2024-08-23 | last=Wesely | first=Kathrin | date=2021-06-29 | language=de | publisher=[[Stuttgarter Zeitung]]}}</ref> According to Kurth, these monuments are "not intended for famous personalities as usual, but for 'ordinary people'."<ref name="KulturZentner">{{Cite web | url=https://kultur-zentner.de/statue-of-liberty-kurzweilige-doku-ueber-ein-kunstprojekt-im-lockdown/ | title=Kurzweilige Doku über Kunstprojekt im Lockdown | accessdate=2024-08-23 | last=Zentner | first=Eugen | date=2023-01-15 | language=de | publisher=Kultur Zentner}}</ref>
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Beside visual arts, Kurth additionally performs as a musician and plays his own compositions on ukulele and harmonica at various venues, appearing in several music videos since 2021. In the 1970s, he produced the underground album
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