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Public and private collections

In addition to his paintings, Knuttel became a prominent figure in Irish culture through his commercial collaborations. These projects, along with his ceramic collections allowed his work to reach a very broad audience. Knuttel’s work is held in both public and private collections worldwide. Collectors include Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Bertie Ahern and Joanna Lumley as well as Swiss Bank Corporation, Allied Irish Banks, Goldman Sachs International and Saatchi & Saatchi London. Knuttel's commissions include paintings for Sylester Stallone, The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party for the Irish Hospice Foundation, BMW's Mini Cooper, and most famously the Taoisigh of Ireland.

Painting of twelve men dressed in brown suits and black hats, standing in front of a blue window, with somber expressions.

Taosigh of Ireland

In 1999, Knuttel was commissioned to paint each Taoiseach of Ireland since the founding of the state. It was his Millennium Project. Knuttel always had a healthy disregard for politicians and so set about this task with gusto! There is little pomp and less splendour about their depiction. For a scholar of Irish politics there are many references to these gentlemen’s follies and idiosyncrasies contained within these images. At a reception in Dublin to launch the collection a number of them turned up to see their portraits. The results were not quite what they expected. As old Mr Liam Cosgrave headed for the exit, he commented to Knuttel “We weren’t ALL Gangsters you know!”

A piece depicting five men dressed in dark red suits and matching hats, standing in a cityscape with construction cranes and buildings in the background. The men wear dark sunglasses, and one holds a rolled-up document.

Painting An Taoiseach Sean Lemass

Painting of a serious man in a white military uniform with medals, holding a globe, with a red curtain background, framed in a gold ornate frame with an eagle at the top, and the name 'Charles Le Roi' at the bottom.

Painting An Taoiseach Charles Haughey

BMW's Mini Cooper

Mini Cooper car with a colorful, cartoonish lizard and marine-themed design, featuring fish, coral, and other underwater elements, set against a dark background.

Mini Cooper Commissioned by BMW

Sylvester Stallone

A colorful piece of a crowded bar or nightclub scene with stylishly dressed people, including a woman in a short striped skirt and a man in a red jacket holding a drink, along with a large black dog in the foreground.

Painting Sylvester Stallone 96” x 84”

Irish Hospice Foundation’s Mad Hatter’s Tea Party

A colorful painting features a woman with blonde hair and blue eyes holding a coffee mug, a red cat with yellow eyes, a man with a mustache in a red suit and tall hat with two yellow birds inside it, a rabbit wearing purple ears, and other whimsical characters, set against a countryside background with clouds and distant mountains.

Painting Mad Hatter’s Tea Party 96” x 84”
Commissioned by the Irish Hospice Foundation

Commissions

Art Director, Kieron Hickey’s film “Exposure”
Specialist prop designer John Boorman’s “Excalibur”
Specialist prop designer for Marcel Marceau,
Sadlers Wells Theatre – London
Specialist prop designer for “Purple Dust” by Sean O’Casey, Abbey Theatre – Dublin
Bronze Portrait Bust of Maurice Craig (Historian)
Bronze Portrait Bust of Patrick Collins (RHA) Painter
Portrait of Michael Hartnett, Poet
Portrait of Liam O’Leary, Film Archivist
Portrait of Captain Pat Holmes, Soldier
Portrait of Sylvester Stallone, Actor
Portrait of Christy Moore, Singer
Portrait of Charlize Theron, Actress
Two Portraits for Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer
Bronze Portrait of John B. Keane, Playwright
Portrait of Don King, Boxing Promoter
Portrait of Robert De Niro, Actor
Eleven Taoisigh of Ireland
Portrait of the Band “Relish” For E.M.I.
Tapestry, St. Therese of Lisieux
Mastercard design, MBNA Bank
Portrait of Denis Desmond, Promoter
Portrait of Rod Stewart, Singer
“The Joshua Tree”, Painting of U2 for Joe Herlihy