Hermann Kleinknecht (artist)

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Hermann Kleinknecht (* 1943 in Bad Berneck , Upper Franconia ) is a German draftsman, sculptor, installation artist, painter, photographer and filmmaker. He lives in Berlin .

Life

Hermann Kleinknecht: Stahlband , 1998, campus of the University of Augsburg
Hermann Kleinknecht: Untitled , 1990, Impala granite, sculpture garden of the Kunsthalle Mannheim

After completing an apprenticeship in glass painting 1960–63 and graduating from high school in Munich , Kleinknecht began studying in 1968 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Karl Fred Dahmen and Robert Jacobsen . In 1973/74 he received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for the Ateliers '63 in Haarlem . In 1974 he worked as a scientific draftsman at the Institute for Paleontology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Since then, Kleinknecht has been a freelance artist. In 1986 he took part in the International Sculpture Symposium Sistiana , Aurisina . 1994-2001 he lived and worked in L'Île-Bouchard , Loire, 2001-2004 in Le Faou , Bretagne, and Munich. He has lived in Berlin since 2004 and has had a studio in the Oderbruch since 2010 .

Hermann Kleinknecht is a member of the German Association of Artists .

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“I don't search, I find.” Picasso's bon mot doesn't quite fit Hermann Kleinknecht, who strolls through cellars, attics or the city until something falls into his hands and catches the eye. Suddenly there is a thing that wants to connect with the finder. From Kleinknecht's early Rome scholarship in the Villa Massimo, there was only a series of photos of small finds that caught his eye while wandering the streets: rubbish from civilization pressed into the asphalt, which becomes precious in the lens section and when the camera is photographed, mysterious remains a culture that reminds me of the equally gruesome and fascinating as well as the haunting narrative of the frozen bodies from Herculaneum . Since then, Kleinknecht has found sculptures, photos, family bequests or even excitingly aged paper.

He became known for his large sculptures in public spaces, difficult-to-understand geometrical bodies or puzzling settings in a pre-structured environment. In his exhibitions, Kleinknecht develops installations from his sculptures and found objects. In addition, he kept making series of independent drawings.

Films were also made after early performances . In the 1990s, Kleinknecht began - initially together with Kurt Benning - to record video portraits of a wide variety of people, in which the sitters tell about their lives or things that touch them.

Awards

Works in public collections and in public spaces

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "K" / Hermann Kleinknecht (accessed on September 10, 2015)

literature

  • Kleinknecht, Hermann . In: Supreme Building Authority Munich (Hrsg.): Bildwerk Bauwerk Artwork - 30 years of art and state building in Bavaria . Bruckmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7654-2308-4 , p. 106-107, 118-119, 204-205, 282-283 .
  • Hermann Kleinknecht. Sculptures. Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, 1990. ISBN 3-89165-069-8
  • Hermann Kleinknecht. Sculptures. The International Museum of Contemporary Art. Korea, Seoul 1991
  • Main and secondary routes. Munich: edition belleville, 1994. ISBN 3-923646-33-X
  • Hermann Kleinknecht. Le Partage Du Manteau. Gallery in the Ismaning Palace Pavilion , 2006
  • Peter Pinnau (Ed.): Hermann Kleinknecht. life sentence. Rathausgalerie Munich, Munich 2007.
  • Inpictures. Hermann Kleinknecht. Edited by Peter Pinnau, no place, no year (2018). ISBN 978-3-00-063047-7

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personal data
SURNAME Kleinknecht, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, sculptor, installation artist, painter, photographer and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Berneck , Upper Franconia