Fritz Klingbeil

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Fritz Klingbeil, 2012

Fritz Klingbeil (born November 8, 1936 in Berlin ), grew up in Hameln , Lower Saxony, is a German painter , sculptor and object artist of concrete-constructive art .

life and work

Fritz Klingbeil began studying painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart in 1959 with Professor Heinrich Wildemann . After three years of study and one year in Paris , he moved to Düsseldorf in 1964 , where he lived and worked until 2001. Immediately after his stay in Paris, Klingbeil began his consistently constructive work. Abstracted figures can already be found in the early paintings from his student days at the Stuttgart Art Academy, but Klingbeil is now consistently moving towards geometric abstraction . Its working principle is to reduce it to the essentials.

He designed studies for his paintings on graph paper, among other things . He used - and still uses - Lego bricks as working materials for both pictures and his three-dimensional objects . Different variations, shapes and groups of shapes can be produced and tried out.

“At the end of the 1960s, Klingbeil discovered the material Plexiglas at the Düsseldorf model maker Pfeiffer & Voss. The simplicity of the smooth and shiny surfaces and the high precision of the workmanship characterize all of his Plexiglas sculptures, which are mostly produced as individual works and sometimes as edition objects. "

- Almut Weinland, 2017

Klingbeil reduced his choice of colors to the basic colors red, blue and yellow and the non-colors black and white. From the mid-1960s onwards, the triad of black, white and red would characterize his work in particular.

In 1968 Klingbeil had his first solo exhibition in the Reckermann Gallery in Cologne. In 1969 the next solo exhibitions followed in the Rive Droite gallery by Jean Larcade in Paris and in the Denise René Hans Mayer gallery in Krefeld. The size of the work increases to over two and a half meters high, slim pillars made of Plexiglas . In the late 1970s, Klingbeil took on land art influences. Installations in landscapes with objects made of wood and plastic were created.

In 1980, Klingbeil had a studio exhibition at the Christel Gallery in Stockholm, which was then directed by Axel Knipschild. A year later, Knipschild took over the gallery and together with Monica Urwitz founded the Konstruktiv Tendens gallery. In 1983 Klingbeil's solo exhibition took place there. In the 1990s, Klingbeil was able to show his work again in France as part of the exhibition activities of the Repères (Association de soutien aux arts plastiques contemporains) initiated by Eva-Maria Fruhtrunk.

“Fritz Klingbeil's work lives through the charm of ever-newly found orders. Freedom and playful freedom unfold in it, which are by no means arbitrary, but consistently follow a constructive logic. Like building blocks, the artistic elements enter into connections and dissolve them again, are they multiplied or act individually. They seem scalable in their size. They are surrounded by white picture space, white spaces and walls. The painted figures organize the picture surface, the picture bodies the wall surfaces, the sculptures the space. "

- Almut Weinland, 2017

The artist, who moved to Berlin in 2001, is still working on the variations of his theme today.

Fritz Klingbeil is a member of the West German Artists Association , in whose overview exhibitions he has participated eight times since 1979, most recently in 2019 at the Osthaus Museum Hagen .

gallery

  • Work from the student days, approx. 1963

  • Oil on canvas, 1974

  • Multiple, plexiglass, 1970

  • Oil on canvas, 2013

Solo exhibitions

  • 1968 Reckermann Gallery, Cologne
  • 1969 Galerie Rive Droite, Paris
  • 1969 Denise René Hans Mayer Gallery, Krefeld
  • 1970 Denise René Hans Mayer, art market for graphics and objects, Düsseldorf
  • 1972 Reckermann Gallery, Cologne
  • 1972 Jesse Gallery, Bielefeld
  • 1973 Reckermann Gallery, Cologne
  • 1976 Reckermann Gallery, Cologne
  • 1976 Jesse Gallery, Bielefeld
  • 1977 Gallery at the Neupforte, Aachen
  • 1978 Galerie december, Düsseldorf
  • 1982 Gallery Am Schloßwall, Osnabrück
  • 1982 Galerie im Zentrum, Berlin
  • 1983 Galerie Linie, Moers
  • 1983 Gallery Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
  • 1987 Maier-Hahn Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 1991 Toni Mörger art room, Düsseldorf

Working in public collections / museums

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 1962 the young Hameln '62, studio of the art circle Hameln
  • 1962 50th autumn exhibition of Lower Saxon artists, Kunstverein Hannover
  • 1966 Large art exhibition Munich 1966, House of Art , Munich
  • 1967 From Constructivism to Kinetics 1917 to 1967, Galerie Denise René Hans Mayer, Krefeld (opening exhibition)
  • 1968 Reckermann Gallery in Kassel during documenta ( Accrochage )
  • 1968 New Monuments Germany, July 1968, Galerie René Block , Berlin
  • 1968 German Youth Art Prize 1968, sculpture, Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • 1970 Cologne Art Market 1970, Reckermann Gallery
  • 1971 Düsseldorf - City of Artists, Neue Messe, Düsseldorf
  • 1973 between 7, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf / Some 260 miles from here, Gallery House London (in rooms of the Goethe-Institut London)
  • 1974 Multiples - An attempt to show the development of the edition object, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in the rooms of the Art Library, Berlin
  • 1976 Neighborhood, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 1976 Art 7 '76 Basel , Galerie Jesse
  • 1977 03 23 03 - Premières rencontres internationales d'art contemporain, Galerie Nationale du Canada, Ottawa
  • 1977 excerpts 1, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 1977 Construction - Function - Reduction, Galerie an der Neupforte, Aachen
  • 1978 9 Német Művész 1978, Józsefvárosi Kiállítóterem, Budapest ("Nine German Artists", graphic exhibition)
  • 1978 Artists work in the Gelsenkirchen Art Association, the Municipal Museum and the Berge Castle Summer Festival (campaigns)
  • 1980 studio exhibition, Christel Gallery, Stockholm
  • 1982 studio exhibition, Konstruktiv Tendens gallery, Stockholm
  • 1982 ARTEDER '82, Muestra Internacional de Obra Grafica (International Exhibition of Graphic Arts), Bilbao, Spain
  • 1982 Geometrisk Abstraktion I 1920 - 1982, Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
  • 1983 Stockholm International Art Expo, Konstruktiv Tendens gallery
  • 1984 Stockholm Art Fair, Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens
  • 1984 New Concrete Art in Germany, Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf
  • 1984 Art Cologne 1984, Maier-Hahn Gallery
  • 1984 Heinrich Wildemann and students - example of a painting class, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
  • 1985 Stockholm Art Fair, Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens
  • 1986 The 60s - Cologne's way to the art metropolis - From happening to art market, Kölnischer Kunstverein , Cologne
  • 1986 die ecke the corner le coin, Edition & Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg
  • 1991 Homage to Imre Kocsis 1937 - 1991, REPERES au Chȃteu de Courtry, Sivry-Courtry , France
  • 1992 REPERES PARIS dix ans pour l'Art Construit 1982 - 1992, Foundation for Concrete Art, Reutlingen
  • 1994 REPERES Propositions pour l'Art Construit, Center d'Art Contemporain de Saint-Priest, France
  • 1997 Donation Repères, Art Construit - Art Concret, Musée des Ursulines, Mâcon, France
  • 2005 Art construit - Art concret, Donation Eva-Maria Fruhtrunk, Musée de Cambrai, France
  • 2006 Overhead, 20 years of art at Flottmann, Flottmann-Hallen , Herne
  • 2007 Large art exhibition NRW Düsseldorf 2006/07, museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf
  • 2009 Interactions - The West German Artists Association in the KOBRO gallery of the Władyslaw Stremiński Art Academy, Łódź, Poland
  • 2016 30 HIGH - 30 years of art at Flottmann, Flottmann-Hallen, Herne
  • 2019 art KARLSRUHE 2019, Galerie Albrecht

literature

  • Almut Weinland, Elke Krauskopf: Fritz Klingbeil: consistently constructive. Works from six decades. Ed .: Almut Weinland, Kaija Pikarinen. ConferencePoint Verlag, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-936406-56-6 .
  • Renate Buschmann: Chronicle of a non-exhibition . between (1969–73) at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-496-01357-0 .
  • Renate Damsch-Wiehager (Ed.): 30 years (op) art gallery esslingen / Galerie Hans Mayer Düsseldorf. Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-931238-00-8 .
  • Daniel Buchholz, Gregorio Magnani (Eds.): International Index of Multiples from Duchamp to the Present . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1993, ISBN 978-3-88375-174-0 .
  • Werner Alberg (Hrsg.): Artist life in Düsseldorf . Artist manual. Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 978-3-928234-02-3 .
  • Verena Auffermann (preface): die ecke the corner le coin . Concept: Edition Hoffmann, Wolfgang Schmidt. Edition Hoffmann, Friedberg 1986, ISBN 3-926026-00-6 .
  • Gerald Just (Ed.): Galerie december, 1973–1979. In: New Observations . No. 23, June 1984. New Observations Publications Inc., New York 1984.
  • Walter Vitt : From strict designers . Texts on constructive and concrete art. Self-published by Walter Vitt, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-9800144-4-4 .
  • Hans Joachim Orth (Ed.): Düsseldorf creativ. Verlag Müller (Schwann), Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-88528-300-X .
  • Karl Ruhrberg (preface): Düsseldorf - city of artists . Catalog editing: Gerhard Storck . Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1971, DNB  1193498279 .
  • Economic Association of Visual Artists North Rhine-Westphalia e. V., District Association Düsseldorf (Ed.): Visual artists in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. tape 6 : Düsseldorf. Verlag Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen 1970, ISBN 3-7647-0212-5 .
  • Fritz Klingbeil: Exhibition September 1969 Fritz Klingbeil . Ed .: Galerie Denise René Hans Mayer. Krefeld 1969, DNB  810203588 .

Web links

Commons : Fritz Klingbeil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Almut Weinland, Elke Krauskopf: Fritz Klingbeil: consistently constructive. Works from six decades. ConferencePoint Verlag, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-936406-56-6 , pp. 5-7 .
  2. ↑ M_Klingbeil, Fritz. In: westdeutscher-kuenstlerbund.de. Retrieved September 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Klingbeil, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and object artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin