Alexander Klee (art historian)

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Alexander Klee (* 1964 in Heidelberg ) is a German art historian and exhibition curator .

Life

Alexander Klee studied art history , ancient history and classical archeology at the University of Tübingen and the University of Saarbrücken , where he also received his doctorate. He has specialized in researching the painters Adolf Hölzel , Emil Jakob Schindler , Georg Karl Pfahler and artists of the classical modern age. He is a co-founder of the Adolf Hölzel Foundation and maintains this painter's catalog raisonné. Klee is a freelance exhibition curator and has written numerous catalog articles.

Alexander Klee worked for several years at the Schlichtenmaier Gallery in Stuttgart and has been the curator for the second half of the 19th century at the Belvedere in Vienna since 2010 .

Publications

  • Form art - phenomenon of a cultural space. In: Agnes Husslein-Arco / Alexander Klee (ed.): "Cubism, Constructivism, Form Art", exhib. Cat.Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Vienna 10 March - 19 June 2016
  • Adolf Hölzel and the Vienna Secession. Prestel, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-7913-3594-0 .
  • Agnes Husslein-Arco and Alexander Klee: "Formalisierung der Landschaft - Hölzel, Mediz, Moll u.a. , Vienna 2013. ISBN 978-3-7774-2124-7
  • Georg Karl Pfahler: the origin of his work in an international context. Pirrot, Saarbrücken-Dudweiler 1997, ISBN 3-930714-23-X , (Phil. Diss. Saarbrücken).
  • Albert Mueller: Life and Work. Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-1048-9 .
  • Adolf Fleischmann , Lexicon article, Saur Artist Lexicon 2004
  • Georg Karl Pfahler - The autonomous power of color , in: Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art, Issue 52, Issue 30, Munich 2000

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Upper Belvedere, Institution ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 7, 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Klee, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg