Jacobus Kloppenburg

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Jacobus Kloppenburg (born March 16, 1930 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch artist who became known, among other things, through the conflict over his life's work, the large “Art Archive for the Future”. The art archive consisted (after the floor where Kloppenburg lived) of 13 sea containers “full of rubbish: electrical cables, broken furniture, bicycle parts, lamps, mirrors, shoe soles, leftover food, even a dried cat carcass, but also drawings, photos and sculptures. “The“ art archive ”should be an image of our culture, made from discarded objects of daily use.

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Kloppenburg was born to the sign painter Jacobus Kloppenburg and his mother Agathe Kiljan. Kloppenburg grew up in the Jordaan district , an Amsterdam working-class district with small shops and tradespeople and a proportion of the Boheme. He attended elementary and high school from 1936 to 1947, but did not graduate from high school. He worked as a temporary worker in his mother's shop. His father sent him to a calligraphy class when he was 13 , also with a view to his own business. However, Kloppenburg was more interested in art - an inclination his father rejected. In 1943 his father left the family for another woman. In 1948, after dropping out of school, Kloppenburg worked in his father's shop. In 1950 he got to know Rudolf Steiner's writings through the intermediary of his brother-in-law . From this year Kloppenburg began to work with photography and began to design furniture, a houseboat and abstract fabric samples without any artistic training.

In 1963, Kloppenburg rented the upper floors of the neighboring house at Lauriergracht 109 and began his collection, which later became known as the “Art Archive for the Future”. He collected discarded everyday objects and rubbish and put the objects together into ever-growing sculptures.

In 1970 he married Eva Arnscheidt, the daughter of Kurt Arnscheidt (1906–2001), an art professor at the Düsseldorf Academy , and lived with her in Düsseldorf .

In 1972 the Dutch artist grant Beeldende Kunstenaars Regeling (BKR) acquired a sculpture by Kloppenburg. From 1976 to 1985 he made hundreds of pastel drawings with which he took part in group exhibitions. In 1985 he agreed to a solo exhibition at the Museum Fodor Amsterdam for the first time.

In the 1970s in Düsseldorf, Kloppenburg belonged to the circle around Joseph Beuys and to the Free International University (FIU), whose founding was inspired by Beuys.

In 1984 Kloppenburg rented the neighboring house at Lauriergracht 111. In this building he housed his ever-growing collection, which in 1987 was first publicly referred to as the “Art Archive for the future”. In the 1980s he also took part in exhibitions abroad and traveled with Waldo Bien to Africa, South America and the USA.

In the 1990s, extensive renovation work began in Jordaan and many of the old houses were converted into luxury apartments. The leases for the two houses rented by Kloppenburg were terminated and, despite interventions by artists and well-known personalities, the collection was improperly cleared into 13 containers on October 14, 1997. The Museum Schloss Moyland , which has 60 drawings by Kloppenburg in its collection, initially agreed to accept and exhibit the “art archive”. However, since neither Kloppenburg nor the museum were able to cover the clearance and rental costs for the containers, they remained on the grounds of the city of Amsterdam and were partly broken into and looted until the 52,400 kg of material in the collection were disposed of as garbage in 2008.

A small part of the collection was saved and is exhibited by the Verbeke Foundation in Kemzeke, Belgium (a district of Stekene ) near the Dutch border.

The destruction of the total work of art hit Kloppenburg hard. Nevertheless, he continued to participate in exhibitions and projects. He became one of the founders of the FIU's art collection (FIUWAC). Under the name Trashetical Litterartur , he creates conceptual art and took part in the traveling and growing exhibition Bison Caravan , a project against the destruction of nature and culture.

At the end of 2005, after his 75th birthday, the book Jacobus Kloppenburg by Patrick Healy and Waldo Bien was published.

Exhibitions of the works of Kloppenburg

  • Art center Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, online in early 2006
  • Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, since 2008
  • Solo exhibition at Museum Fodor, Amsterdam 1985

literature

  • Anneke Bokern: Bulky Dilemma - Amsterdam: Jabobus Kloppenburg's work is threatened with destruction. In: Kunstzeitung 121, September 2006, p. 27.
  • FIU Amsterdam (Ed.): Jacobus Kloppenburg: The Artchive for the future. With texts by Waldo Bien, Patrick Healy, Franz Joseph van der Grinten . Wienand, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-87909-877-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Bokern: Bulky Dilemma - Amsterdam: The work of Jabobus Kloppenburg is threatened with destruction. In: Kunstzeitung 121, September 2006, p. 27
  2. ↑ Darling Moyland. Our collection - your story. Retrieved September 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ see website of the Verbeke Foundation , accessed September 10, 2019
  4. ^ Jacobus Kloppenburg (NL, 1930). In: Verbeke Foundation. Retrieved September 8, 2019 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Kloppenburg, Jacobus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam