Klaus Heider

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Klaus Heider (born October 25, 1936 in Göppingen ; † October 28, 2013 in Stuttgart ) was a German graphic artist, painter, photographer, installation and object artist and university lecturer.

life and work

The trained graphic artist worked with a wide variety of printing techniques. These included etchings, lithographs, screen printing, offset printing and heliogravure. He also painted and drew and experimented with collages. Most recently he was mainly concerned with photography. From this examination of photography the Cosmic Photo Archive emerged, which, along with the shadow of infinity, is one of his most important works.

After training as a commercial artist, Klaus Heider applied to the Stuttgart Art Academy on the recommendation of his teacher . From 1957 to 1960 he studied painting and drawing with Manfred Henninger . In 1960 he moved to the Berlin School of Fine Arts . In 1964 Heider finished his studies as a master class student and returned to Göppingen in 1966. Until his death he lived and worked in Bad Boll and in Cima, Italy .

From 1970 to 1971 Heider represented the vacant chair for glass painting and mosaic at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . After a trip to the French Atlantic coast, the series Atlantikbunker was created between 1972 and 1975 . The works in the series can be described as the first artistic photographs of these buildings. During a guest stay at the Villa Romana in Florence in 1977 Heider realized a glass staircase permanently set into the floor. After a first visit to the Pantheon in Rome in 1982, an intensive painterly and photographic examination of this ancient building began. The discussion about the Pantheon went hand in hand with Heider's first light work Lichtjahr . In 1982 he was awarded the Villa Massimo Rome Prize . From 1983 to 2000 Heider held a professorship for photography and painting at the Pforzheim University of Design .

Klaus Heider was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Awards

  • 1982/83 Rome Prize Villa Massimo
  • 1993 Heinrich Schickardt Prize of the City of Göppingen
  • 2010 Erich Heckel Prize
  • 2012 Maria Ensle Prize from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1968 Kunstverein Ulm
  • 1970 Europe Gallery Melbourne (USA)
  • 1973 Galleria Villa Massimo Rome (Italy)
  • 1975 Kunsthalle Tübingen
  • 1977 Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
  • 1986 Villa Merkel Gallery of the City of Esslingen
  • 1991 Ernst Museum Budapest (Hungary)
  • 1994 Göppingen Art Gallery
  • 2004 City Church of Göppingen
  • 2005 Zehntscheuer Rottenburg cultural association

Exhibition participation (in selection)

  • 1970 "Aktiva 17", House of Art Munich
  • 1976 "Art in Stuttgart", Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (USA)
  • 1977 IX. Festival International de la Peinture Cagnes-sur-mer (France)
  • 1977 "I materiali del linguaggio, Artisti tedeschi a Firenze", Palazzo Strozzi Florence (Italy)
  • 1980 Alexandria Mediterranean Biennale (Egypt)
  • 1983 photography and video, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
  • 1988 "German Art", Neville-Sargent Gallery Chicago (USA)
  • 1996 "Adventure Art", Kunsthalle Göppingen
  • 1996 "Art of the Present", Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
  • 2003 “Photo Art 1852–2002”, State Gallery Stuttgart
  • 2005 "Light art from artificial light", Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
  • 2006 “The fate of paradise lies in its geometry”, KISS, Art in Untergröningen Castle

Works (selection)

  • About the puppet theater , portfolio with lithographs
  • Pulse rate
  • Vital Statistic , portfolio with screen prints
  • Cosmic photo archive , photography

Working in public space

  • Florence, Villa Romana: light trap / glass staircase, glass , 1977
  • Göppingen, project for Kunstverein Göppingen: wall work art , 2010

Movies

  • Theory , 2001
  • Artist Life , 2001

Artist books

  • Much is difficult to see , Verlag Beatrix Wilhelm Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-923-71783-0
  • The balances of the true and the beautiful , Cantz Verlag, Stuttgart 1994
  • As part of a performance , Kunsthalle Göppingen and Cantz Verlag, Stuttgart 1994
  • Art , Eva Mack Gallery, Stuttgart 1998
  • Art about art and art , Edition Edith Wahlandt Galerie, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-00-012652-X

literature

  • K. Max D. Harms: The artistic work of Klaus Heider. Aachen 2017.
  • Helmut Heißenbüttel: Blurb No. 17. 1972.
  • Karin Thomas: Art until today. Cologne 1973.
  • Juliane Roh: German art since 1960. Prints. Munich 1974.
  • Kunsthalle Tübingen: Klaus Heider. Texts: Götz Adriani, Günther Wirth, Heinz Ohff, Walter Aue, Herbert Pée, Helmut Heißenbüttel, Diulio Morosini. Tuebingen 1975.
  • Ulmer Museum: Klaus Heider - New Works. Text: Johann-Karl Schmidt . Stuttgart 1977.
  • Kunsthalle Baden-Baden: Klaus Heider. Text: Hans Albert Peters. Baden-Baden 1977.
  • IX. Festival International de la Peinture. Text: Karin von Maur . Cagnes-sur-mer 1977.
  • Galleria Unimedia: The appearance is not the thing. Text: Joachim Burmeister, Alessandro Vezzosi. Genoa 1981.
  • Staatsgalerie Stuttgart: Hand drawings of the present. Text: Ulrike Gauss . Stuttgart 1982.
  • Gallery Beatrix Wilhelm: Klaus Heider. Light objects. Text: Dorothée Bauerle. Stuttgart 1989.
  • Wolfgang Riedl: pictures and texts. Historical aspects. 2004.
  • Klaus Heider. Manageable idea of ​​the whole - cosmic photo archive. Göppingen 2011.
  • K. Max D. Harms: The artistic work of Klaus Heider. Aachen 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Painter and graphic artist Klaus Heider died
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer : Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988 (= improved reprint from: Die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: a self-portrayal . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988), o. P. [14].
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Heider, Klaus ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 17, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
personal data
SURNAME Heider, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Goeppingen
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 2013
Place of death Stuttgart