Karl Stirner

Who is Karl Stirner?

Karl Stirner is an internationally exhibited German born American sculptor. His longtime hometown of Easton, Pennsylvania has honored the artist by naming the "Karl Stirner Arts trail" after him. As an art professor he has taught at Swathmore college and the Tyler School of Art.

In 1956 the Delaware Art Museum held an exhibition of his metalwork Stirner's work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, James A. Michener Art Museum and the Grounds for Sculpture in Trenton, N.J., among others places..

Stirner's sculptures were the subject of an exhibition at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, entitled "Transformations II: Works in Steel" it ran from March 16 - June 16, 2013.