Albrecht Klauer-Simonis

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Albrecht Klauer-Simonis (born April 4, 1918 in Hilgert / Westerwald; † February 7, 2002 in Prüm ) was a German artist, photographer, ceramist and art teacher.

Life

As the oldest of three children, he grew up in Höhr-Grenzhausen, graduated from school with secondary school leaving certificate and joined the Nerother Wandervogel , a youth organization in the Bundestag. From 1934 to 1935 he attended the technical school for ceramics in Höhr-Grenzhausen and was taught by Alfred Kamp in sculpture and Paul Drosseé in painting. As a volunteer, he served in the Air Force in 1936 until he was released for pulmonary tuberculosis in 1942. He then continued his training at the Bavarian State Institute for Photography in Munich and at the Graphic Education and Research Institute in Vienna. In December 1946 he passed the master's examination as a photographer at the former State Bauhaus in Weimar. In 1947 he worked for the State Image Office of the State of Hesse in Wiesbaden, but at the same time took drawing lessons at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin-Weißensee with Wilhelm Tank and studied painting at the teaching workshops of the Darmstadt artists' colony Mathildenhöhe with Paul Thesing and Herman Keil .

In 1948 Klauer-Simonis married the music teacher and pianist Hildegard Kröhl from Darmstadt. From 1949 to 1952 he taught drawing and painting at the technical college for ceramics in Höhr-Grenzhausen , after which he gave courses in photography and plastic design at the Volkshochschulen in Koblenz and Neuwied for many years. In 1950 he made contact with the Weissenseifen / Westeifel artist settlement. Together with artists from the field of ceramic work, he founded the Muffelgruppe .

In 1963 he acquired the parent company of the Weißenseifen artists' colony and relocated his main work there. From 1972 to 1981 he took on teaching positions in drawing and sculpture at the University of Education (today University of Koblenz-Landau ). In 1975 the first "White Soaps Symposium" took place in collaboration with Moritz Ney from Luxembourg. This facility, with a focus on sculptural work, led to numerous works made of sandstone, which transformed the site into a sculpture garden. After separating from his first wife Hildegard Klauer in 1978, Klauer-Simonis lived with the art educator and art historian Christiane Hamann in Weißenseifen, whom he married in 1994, from 1986 until his death. In 1989 he founded the Pi publishing house , where his autobiography was published.

His urn was buried on March 2, 2002 in Weißenseifen in the stone circle of the "Omega Monument".

literature

  • Albrecht Klauer-Simonis: AKS - In-between spaces and moments. Autobiography, Verlag Pi, Weißenseifen 1989, ISBN 3-9802148-0-X
  • Albrecht Klauer-Simonis: Pro-Theses: Sketches and texts on 22 Weissenseifen symposia and on the torso. Verlag Pi, Weißenseifen 1996, ISBN 3-9802148-4-2

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personal data
SURNAME Klauer-Simonis, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, photographer, ceramist and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Hilgert , Westerwald
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2002
Place of death Prüm