Klaus Fußmann
Klaus Fußmann (born March 24, 1938 in Velbert ) is a contemporary German painter and graphic artist.
Life
Klaus Fußmann studied from 1957 to 1961 at the Folkwang School in Essen and from 1962 to 1966 at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin . In 1971 he married the Los Angeles- born soprano Barbara Gordon. From 1974 to 2005, Klaus Fußmann was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. His students included Yadegar Asisi , Hans-Joachim Billib, Ilja Heinig , Christopher Lehmpfuhl , Hermann Reimer , Frank Suplie, Monika Taffet, Christoph Thiele, Till Warwas and Günther Reger . In 2004 he created the monumental paintings View of Berlin Mitte (600 × 400 cm) and Landscape in the Uckermark (410 × 400 cm) for the Ullstein -Halle in the Axel-Springer-Haus on Rudi-Dutschke-Straße in Berlin-Kreuzberg and in 2005 the monumental ceiling painting Wolkenzug in the mirror hall of the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg.
Klaus Fußmann has been a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg since 1989 and was a member of the German Association of Artists , in whose 19th annual exhibition in Stuttgart he took part in 1971. Significant presentations of his work took place in 1972 in the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, 1982 on the Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt, 1988 in the Kunsthalle Emden , 1992 in the Kunsthalle Bremen , 2003 in the Museum Ostwall in Dortmund. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, extensive exhibitions were on view in 2008 in the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Gottorf Castle , in the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg and in the Mannheimer Kunstverein , on his 80th birthday in 2018 in the Museum Barberini in Potsdam and in Schleswig-Holstein State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Gottorf Castle.
He and his work have received several awards, such as the Villa Romana Florence Prize in 1972 and the Böttcherstrasse Art Prize in Bremen , the Darmstadt City Art Prize in 1979, the Schleswig-Holstein Order of Merit in 2011 , the Ike and Berthold Roland Art Prize in 2015 - Foundation and in 2018 the Art Prize of the State of Schleswig-Holstein endowed with 20,000 euros in recognition of his complete works in recognition of outstanding artistic achievements. Klaus Fußmann lives and works in Gelting on the Baltic Sea and in Berlin.
Klaus Fußmann is represented with works in the collections of the Gunzenhauser Museum in Chemnitz, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main and the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Gottorf Castle.
On March 18, 2018, NDR broadcast the one-hour documentary It's Time: The Painter Klaus Fußmann , which Wilfried Hauke directed and Christoph Bungartz was responsible for editing. On March 17, 2019, an episode of the NDR's Lieb & Teuer program was broadcast, moderated by Janin Ullmann and filmed in Reinbek Castle . An oil painting by Fußmann, which shows a kettle, was discussed with the painting expert Ariane Skora .
literature
- Kunstverein Darmstadt: German Etchers of the Present , Darmstadt 1982, pp. 68f, ISBN 3-7610-8121-9
- Delusion of painting , Siedler, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-88680-835-1
Web links
- Homepage of Klaus Fußmann
- Klaus Fußmann at Van Ham Art Auctions
- Klaus Fußmann on artnet
- Short biography as well as some paintings and works on paper , Galerie Ludorff, Düsseldorf
- Literature by and about Klaus Fußmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Partial view of the ceiling painting on mkg-hamburg.de
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members from 1903
- ↑ Information about the film It's time: The painter Klaus Fußmann on ndr.de
- ↑ Video painting kettle by Klaus Fußmann on ndr.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fußmann, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Velbert |