Klaus Geldmacher

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Klaus Geldmacher around 1980

Klaus Geldmacher (born January 25, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German object artist .

Life

Geldmacher, whose brother is the musician Dietrich Geldern , played as a student under the name of Klaus Geldern as a trumpeter in Frankfurt jazz bands , a. a. 1958 with the Blue Washboard Five , 1959–1960 with the Barrelhouse Jazzband . From 1961 he worked as a cornet player alongside Abbi Hübner at the Jailhouse Jazzmen in Hamburg. He first studied psychology and education, from 1964 to 1970 art at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . In 1968 he took part in Documenta IV. In the same year he became a member of the CO-OP artist cooperative Hamburg , which wanted to market its work directly by bypassing the art trade. As AStA chairman in Hamburg, Geldmacher tried in 1969 in the Cologne gallery Der Spiegel to make his own price calculation transparent with the exhibition Art as a commodity . From 1972, in addition to his artistic work, he also had cultural-political activities within the SPD . Klaus Geldmacher was managing director of the IGBK from 1972 to 1973 and managing director of the German Association of Artists from 1973 to 1974 .

He has lived and worked in Mülheim an der Ruhr since 1997 .

Works (selection)

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appearance at the Amateur Jazz Festival Düsseldorf and record recording
  2. ↑ Appearance at the German Jazz Festival and record recording
  3. ↑ CV 1940–1964
  4. ↑ zeit.de: Why art is not cheaper. Klaus Geldmacher reveals his calculation (accessed on August 3, 2015)
  5. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Management of the German Association of Artists since 1950 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 3, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  6. ↑ klausgeldmacher.de: Special Prize 1988 (accessed on August 3, 2015)

literature

  • Romen Banerjee (editor), Klaus Geldmacher (editor): Leuchtmontagen. An erotic consensus . Schwarzkopf + Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89602-037-4
  • Christel Schüppenhauer, Karlheinz Schmid: Klaus Geldmacher: "Stage fright - sound disturbance". Light and sound objects 1986–1988 . Schüppenhauer, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-926226-16-1
  • Michael Weisser : curious: think! - Interviews and dialogues on artistic-creative and non-linear thinking with personalities from culture, science, business and politics. Die | QR | Edition, Murnau 2016, p. 101f, ISBN 978-3-95765-070-2

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Money maker, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geldern, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main