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Hildegard Klepper-Paar, Landshut, 2009

Hildegard Klepper-Paar (born Hildegard Stefanie Paar , born August 20, 1932 in Orșova ( German  Orschowa ), Kingdom of Romania ) is a Romanian-German graphic artist .

Life

Hildegard Klepper-Paar was born as the daughter of Elisabeth Paar (née Altmann) and Joseph Paar in the Danube city of Orschowa (Orșova) at the Iron Gate in the Romanian Banat . The father was a Danube boatman, the mother a housewife.

Hildegard is the older of two daughters. From 1939 to 1944 she attended elementary schools in Orschowa (4 years) and in Deta . During the summer vacation of 1944, which she spent with her grandparents in Moravița in the Banat, she and her younger sister, Aurelia, were surprised by the war events. The sisters fled with a great aunt, but without parents and grandparents, together with most of the residents of the community from the approaching Russian troops . Their way led them on foot through Yugoslavia, Hungary and Austria to the Bavarian border, where they stayed in a refugee camp near Mondsee in Salzburg (federal state) until 1946 . In the following winter, the father led them in a "night-and-fog operation" past border posts back into the Banat to Moravița.

This was followed by training at the Lyceum for Fine Arts in Timișoara ( German  Timisoara ) under Franz Ferch (painting) and Julius Podlipny (drawing) from 1949 to 1953 . From 1953 to 1959 she studied at the National University of the Arts in Bucharest (Institute for Plastic Art Nicolae Grigorescu ) with Professors Schweitzer-Cumpana , Samuel Mützner (painting), Vasile Cazar , Fred Mikos , Simion Juca (graphics), and in 1959 she reached Graduated with state examination.

In 1958 he married the composer Walter Michael Klepper from Banat , and until 1961 the birth of their three children (Ralf, Ursula and Karin). In 1959 she was accepted into the artists' association Fondul Plastic and in 1963 she became a member of the Romanian artist association Uniunea Artiștilor Plastici din România (UAP) in the capital Bucharest. She took part in the annual national graphic exhibitions organized by the association and in numerous exhibitions of Romanian artists abroad, where she had first contacts with Western artists. In 1973 she established her own studio in Bucharest. After the communist regime initially refused her last visit to her father, who was living and dying in Germany, at the beginning of 1977, she decided to move to the Federal Republic of Germany . After the divorce from her husband Walter Michael Klepper, she accepted the invitation of the publisher Hermann Wittemann in 1977-78 in his studio house Maison la Grace in Mandelieu-la-Napoule on the Côte d'Azur , where she made contact with French artists working there found. In 1978 she became a member of the Munich artist association BBK , in which she was a member of the executive committee until 1986.

Since 1994 she has lived and worked in Pilgramsberg in the Straubing-Bogen district. In 1995 she became a member of the Association of Visual Artists (GEDOK) , and in 1997 of the Association of Visual Artists Straubing . Her tasks there are to lead art courses as well as the organization of numerous exhibitions at home and abroad, in which she takes part with her works.

Awards

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Her work includes etchings , lithographs , woodcuts , drawings and paintings .

Exhibitions

Participation in international exhibitions

  • 1976/70/73: Berlin: Intergarafik
  • 1971: Barcelona: "III Bienal Internacional del deporte"
  • 1972: Milano: "International Graphic Exhibition"
  • 1972/74: Ibiza: "La Bienal de Ibiza" Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Ibiza
  • 1975: Barcelona: "Bienal internacional"
  • 1984/85: Monte Carlo: "Prix International d'Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo"
  • 1990: Kangawa, Japan: "The 16th International Independante Exhibition of Prints"
  • 1990: Tuzla, Yugoslavia: "International Bienal Exhibition of Portrait"
  • 1990: Banská Bystrica, CSR: "International Bienal Exhibition of Woodcut"
  • 1991: Varna, Bulgaria: “6. International Print Biennale "

Group exhibitions

  • 1959–1976: Annual exhibitions of the UAP (Artists' Union) Bucharest
  • 1972: Tokyo: Central Museum of Arts , Milano: Castello Sforzesco
  • 1977: Regensburg: "51. Annual show "
  • 1978: Regensburg: East German Gallery
  • 1979: Munich: Town hall, former ticket hall, exhibition "Artists in the town hall"
  • 1980: Munich: House of Art "Great Art Exhibition", town hall, former ticket hall ("People and Environment")
  • 1981: Munich: House of Art "Great Art Exhibition", gallery of artists in the BBK
  • 1983: Munich: BMW Gallery , Gallery of Artists ; Landshut Art District
  • 1984: Munich: Gallery of Artists; Esslingen artists' guild
  • 1988: Munich: Gallery of Artists, Blutenburg Castle ; Hamburg, Rosenheim
  • 1991: Munich: Art Pavilion
  • 1997: Straubing, Munich, Regensburg, Mitterfels, "Great East Bavarian Art Exhibition"
  • 2000: Michigan (USA), Mitterfels, Deggendorf, "Great East Bavarian Art Exhibition"
  • 2003: "Great East Bavarian Art Exhibition"
  • 2005: "Great East Bavarian Art Exhibition" - BBK Niederbayern / Upper Palatinate
  • 2006: GBK Straubing
  • 2007: GBK Straubing, “Modi di vedere I” Venice
  • 2008: GBK Straubing, “Modi di vedere II” Venice
  • 2009: GBK Straubing, Landshut

Solo exhibitions

  • 1975: City Gallery (Casa de cultură) Reșița (Banat / Romania),
  • 1976: "Gallery of the Artists' Union" (Câminul Artei) Bucharest,
  • 1978: "Small Gallery" Waiblingen,
  • 1983: "Art Circle" Landshut,
  • 1992: Munich Art Pavilion,
  • 1993: Tokyo EEG Gallery, Abano-Terme Gallery "Arte Contemporanea", "Istituto Rumeno di cultura" Venice
  • 2002: Munich Üblacker-Häusl ,

Illustrations

  • Paungger, Johanna; Poppe, Thomas; Klepper-Paar, Hildegard (Illustr.): On your own strength - health and recovery in harmony with natural and moon rhythms; Goldmann Wilhelm Verlag, Munich 1993–2007; ISBN 978-3-442-13972-9 .
  • Paungger, Johanna; Poppe, Thomas; Klepper-Paar, Hildegard (Illustr.): Das Mondlexikon - From the correct point in time - The standard work; Goldmann Wilhelm Verlag, Munich 2000–2010; ISBN 978-3-442-17172-9 .
  • Kornis, Else; Klepper-Paar, Hildegard (Illustr.): "New Friends", Kriterion Verlag Bucharest 1970 (German National Library Leipzig - 1971A15862)
  • Kornis, Else; Klepper-Paar, Hildegard (Illustr.): "Lenchen, do you know your park?", Kriterion Verlag Bucharest 1969 (German National Library Leipzig - 1970A5661, Frankfurt - D70 / 3143)
  • Ilk-Slamar, Ilse; Klepper-Paar, Hildegard (Illustr.): “Ink fritz”; Jugendverlag Bucharest 1966 (German National Library Leipzig - 1966A21291; Frankfurt - DKs 53428)

literature

  • Siebenbürgener Zeitung, episode 17 of October 31, 1981, p. 3.
  • Ionel Jiaru, Gabriela Carp, Ana Maria Covrig, Lionel Scantéyé: Les artistes Roumains en occident. American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Science, 1986, ISBN 0-912131-005 , p. 101; Library of Congress Card No. 86-723.
  • Ionel Jianu: Antologia artiştilor români în Occident. 1995.
  • Banater Post, No. 16, of August 20, 2002, Culture, p. 5.

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personal data
SURNAME Klepper couple, Hildegard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Couple, Hildegard Stefanie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-German graphic designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Orșova , Kingdom of Romania