Klaus Littmann

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Klaus Littmann ( For Forest , 2019)

Klaus Littmann (* 1951 in Lörrach ) is a Swiss gallery owner , initiator of art interventions , art mediator and curator .

Life

Klaus Littmann lives and works in Basel. After graduating from high school and a stay in Israel , he studied from 1970 to 1976 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , a. a. with Joseph Beuysand established himself as a creator as well as a freelance mediator for contemporary art. He first made a name for himself as the initiator and organizer of solo and group exhibitions and later concentrated on the planning and implementation of themed art exhibitions and artistic interventions in public spaces. Each of his complex and unique projects is also based on a dichotic tension that highlights the artist's preoccupation with everyday culture and the confrontation between contemporary art and urban spaces. Klaus Littmann's network of relationships with internationally known artists, which he has built up over 25 years, and his instinct for previously unknown creative talents form the basis of his communication work and are the decisive quality factor in each of his projects.

The more than 80 art projects realized by Klaus Littmann in Germany and abroad are documented in catalog and book form. The internationally renowned artists with whom Littmann has worked include: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Tony Cragg, Guillaume Bijl, César, Jean Tinguely, Dieter Roth, Leon Golub, Keith Haring, Michel Blazy, Job Koelewijn, Daniel Buren , Peter Kogler, Katharina Sieverding, Niki de Saint Phalle, Subodh Gupta, Daniel Spoerri.

His last project so far was the art project For Forest (2019) , in which 299 trees were temporarily planted in Klagenfurt's Wörthersee Stadium .

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In 2002 Klaus Littmann was awarded the Culture Prize of the City of Basel.

“Klaus Littmann from Basel provokes with his artistic interventions in everyday life - currently with the installation Central Station. The next projects are already planned: a deciduous forest in the football arena and a planet park that lights up the night. "

- Reto E. Wild in migrosmagazin

Publications

Exhibitions (selection)

Projects (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Naomi Gregoris: What is floating there, Mr. Littmann? In: aargauerzeitung.ch. October 11, 2018, accessed June 26, 2019 .
  2. Reto E. Wild: A creative troublemaker. In: migrosmagazin.ch. November 3, 2017, accessed January 1, 2019 .