Jochen Klein

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Jochen Klein (* 1967 in Giengen ; † July 28, 1997 in Munich ) was a German painter .

Life

Jochen Klein attended the Margarete-Steiff-Gymnasium in Giengen . The family moved to Munich in 1979. There he studied classical painting with Professor Hans Baschang at the Academy of Fine Arts . After graduating, he turned away from classical painting and devoted himself to conceptual projects. He became a member of the New York concept artist group Group Material and wrote texts on the relationship between aesthetics and politics and took part in socio-historical exhibitions together with his artist colleague and friend Thomas Eggerer. In 1995 he moved to London and devoted himself to figurative painting with great intensity until his sudden death, inspired by the work of the English artist Richard Hamilton . In London he worked in the environment of the artists of the Cubitt Gallery. He also staged some exhibitions together with his partner, the photographer Wolfgang Tillmans , who also manages his artistic estate. Jochen Klein only found out about his AIDS illness seven weeks before his death (1997).

Artistic creation

Klein's figurative works, which were created in the last years of his life from 1995 to 1997, are important. Eight of these paintings are in the possession of the Munich Pinakothek der Moderne . The images of this phase show idyllic landscape scenes in which there are isolated real people who are in contrast to an almost abstract stylized background. "In addition to the associative potential that accumulates in the merging of erotically sweetened plein air dreams and opaque dirty corners, the paintings reveal sophisticated visual experimentation," judges the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and says that Klein's pastel-colored kitsch, as a "lethal injection of the trivial, is precisely the nerve aesthetic correctness ”.

Exhibitions

Secondary literature

  • Helmut Draxler: Jochen Klein . In: "Jochen Klein". König, Cologne 1998. ISBN 3-88375-334-3
  • Manfred Hermes: Past Present Tension ” . In: Peter Doig: Jochen Klein . Buchholz Gallery, Cologne 2006. pp. 5–10
  • Oliver Koerner von Gustorf: Stained Idyls . In: “ Tageszeitung ” from February 6, 2002
  • Stefanie Lehnert: Small in Munich. "Pinakothek" honors Giengen artists . In: “ Heidenheimer Zeitung ” from April 12, 2008
  • Nanna Lüth and Carmen Mörsch: Interrupted Careers. Partnerships . In: “Springerin. Booklets for Contemporary Art ”. No. 2/2002. Folio, Vienna 2002. ISSN  1029-1830
  • Brita Sachs: Lethal injection of the trivial . In: "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" of April 17, 2008
  • Wolfgang Tillmans : Foreword . In: In: "Jochen Klein". König, Cologne 1998. ISBN 3-88375-334-3
  • Amelie von Wulffen : An obituary for Jochen Klein . in: “Springer. Booklets for Contemporary Art ”. No. 3/1997. Springer, Vienna 1997. ISSN  0947-5427 , p. 65

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brita Sachs: Lethal injection of the trivial . In: "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" of April 17, 2008

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personal data
SURNAME Klein, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Giengen
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1997
Place of death Munich