Hanns Joachim Klug
Hanns Joachim Klug (born September 3, 1928 in Hanover ; † May 31, 2013 ) was a German visual artist . Using different techniques and materials, he designed predominantly biblical, ecclesiastical and existential themes and found new forms of expression in the process. Paintings influenced by surrealism stand alongside sculptures reminiscent of Romanesque models, reductionist drawings and complex installations . Klug has gained national and international recognition with numerous exhibitions. The artistic equipment of around 140 churches comes from him.
Life
Hanns Joachim Klug was born in Hanover in 1928. As a child, then as a sixteen-year-old soldier, he experienced the Second World War. After the end of the war, under the traumatic impression of what he had experienced, for a short time he felt a double calling to the pastor's office and to painting, until the stronger inclination towards the visual arts prevailed. He studied at the Werkkunstschule in Hanover and in the decades that followed, he continued to absorb new influences and suggestions.
In 1968 his participation in a joint exhibition with Giorgio de Chirico , Jean Cocteau , Mac Zimmermann and Leo Cremer in Bremer Böttcherstraße attracted widespread attention .
After that, orders from the church sector demanded his creativity for around two decades, until he could surrender more to his personal creative impulse.
Hanns Joachim Klug celebrated a public comeback in 1998 with his retrospective exhibition in the Hanoverian Europa Gallery. During this exhibition, which met with enthusiastic feedback, over 200 of his works from all creative periods were sold. A subsequent exhibition in the Europa-Galerie in Munich was similarly successful .
Exhibitions
- 1968 VI. International Biennale “Contemporary Christian Art” in Salzburg
Publicly accessible works
- Equipment from St. Bernward , Hanover
- Altarpiece "Die Emmausjünger" in Weende, St. Vinzenz
- Fountain on the market square of Lingen (Ems)
Web links
- Literature by and about Hanns Joachim Klug in the catalog of the German National Library
- Report by local television in Wunstorf ( YouTube )
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , June 8, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klug, Hanns Joachim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klug, Johannes-Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German visual artist with biblical and ecclesiastical motifs |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 2013 |