Konrad Klapheck
Konrad Klapheck(10 February 1935 – 30 July 2023) was a German painter andgraphic artistwhose style of painting combined features ofSurrealismandNeorealism.
Biography[edit]
Konrad Klapheck was born inDüsseldorfon 10 February 1935 to arts historians and professors Richard and Anna Klappheck (née Strümpell, daughter ofAdolf Strümpell). From 1954 to 1956 Konrad studied painting under Bruno Goller at theKunstakademie Düsseldorf.[1]Klapheck's works of the mid-1950s are in amagic realiststyle that became more idiosyncratic when he painted the first of histypewriters.[1]His subsequent paintings, often large in scale, are precise and seemingly realistic depictions of technical equipment, machinery, and everyday objects, but strangely alienated; they are "monumental, amusingly absurd and sexually suggestive".[2]
Klapheck's subjects through the years included (in order of introduction) typewriters, sewing machines, water taps and showers, telephones, irons, shoes, keys, saws, car tires, bicycle bells, and clocks. Influenced byDuchamp,Man Ray,andMax Ernst,Klapheck's "ironic treatment of everyday mechanics" prefiguredpop artin its magnification of the trivial.[1]He was also close to FrenchSurrealismandAndré Bretonwrote his last published text about a Klapheck exhibition atGalerie Sonnabendin 1965.
Between 1992 and 2002, he painted friends, colleagues, and celebrities from the international art scene. He became a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1979.[1]
Klapheck died on 30 July 2023, at the age of 88.[3]
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- Grove Art Online
- Johnson, Ken (February 1994).Art in America.82(2): 106.
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