Klaus Herzer

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Klaus Herzer (born March 23, 1932 in Göppingen ) is a German painter and wood cutter .

Klaus Herzer in his studio

Life

Klaus Herzer was born on March 23, 1932 in Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg. Klaus Herzer spent his childhood and youth in Bad Waldsee and Bad Saulgau in Upper Swabia. He received important impulses and encouragement in his artistic work from the drawing teacher and painter Otto Lauber in the Saulgau teacher’s secondary school and from the metal sculptor Julius Schramm in the Esslingen workshop.

  • 1971 Form-finding in a woodcut
    • Since then, wood and metal prints as well as monotypes have been the focus of his work.
  • 1992 Awarded the Citizen Medal of the City of Mössingen
  • 2001 Establishment of the Klaus Herzer Art Foundation, opening of the Klaus Herzer Woodcut Museum in Öschingen
  • 2007 Award of the honor plaque of the city of Mössingen

Collections (selection)

Works by Klaus Herzer are among others. A. in the following major public and private collections

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  • State Gallery Stuttgart
  • Institute for Foreign Relations (IfA) Stuttgart
  • State Museum for Technology and Work Mannheim
  • Art Museum Albstadt
  • Art Museum Spendhaus Reutlingen
  • Museum for Paper and Book Art Lenningen
  • Diocesan Museum Rottenburg a. N.
  • Municipal Gallery The Ferry , Saulgau
  • Regional councils Stuttgart and Tübingen

Literature (selection)

  • Axel von Criegern, Hermann Pfeiffer: Klaus Herzer Farbholzschnitte (workbook), Reutlingen 1979, ISBN 3-921 638-01-1
  • Anni Bardon, Wolfgang Ostberg, Hermann Pfeiffer: Klaus Herzer color woodcuts, monotypes, dispersion pictures (catalog of the city of Reutlingen), Reutlingen 1982
  • Jörg Becker, Hermann Pfeiffer, Günther Wirth: Klaus Herzer wood and metal prints (catalog of the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Tübingen) Tübingen 1992, ISBN 3-980 1276-5-6
  • Werner Groß, Hermann Pfeiffer, Wolfgang Urban: Klaus Herzer print + print (catalog of the exhibition in the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg), Rottenburg 1999, ISBN 3-88 294-289-4
  • Xylon 96 Klaus Herzer, 9 original prints, Zurich 1995
  • The German woodcut in the 20th century, Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (IfA) Stuttgart, Berlin 1984
  • The landscape of the Swabian Alb, catalogs of the Städtische Galerie Albstadt (art museum) Albstadt 1980 and 1986
  • Graphics, sculpture, painting, catalog of the Städtische Galerie Albstadt (art museum) Albstadt 1984
  • 18th International Graphic Biennial Ljubljana, Catalog 1989
  • Printing is an Adventure, Städtisches Kunstmuseum Reutlingen, Reutlingen 1993
  • 50 years of the Saulgau ferry in 1997
  • Print 97, Städtische Galerie Albstadt (Art Museum) Albstadt 1997
  • Paths into the 20th Century, Städtische Galerie (Art Museum) Albstadt 2000

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

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  • Ev. Westphalia Academy, Bochum 1980
  • Academy Comburg, Schwäbisch Hall 1985
  • Municipal gallery Die Fähre, Saulgau 1986
  • Art Museum Spendhaus, Reutlingen 1991
  • Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen 1992
  • Diocesan Museum Rottenburg, Rottenburg aN 1999

Holdings

  • Art building (Württ. Kunstverein) Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1973
  • Municipal gallery (art museum) Albstadt, Albstadt 1984, 1997, 2000, 2011
  • Institute for Foreign Relations (IfA) Stuttgart, The German Woodcut in the 20th Century, (traveling exhibition China - Europe - Canada) 1985 to 1991
  • International Graphics Biennale Ljubljana, Ljubljana 1989
  • Xylon Museum and Workshops, Schwetzingen 1989

Web links

D 108 folding 16-1 2016

Illustrations:

  • Albwinter I, woodcut, 1981
  • Remember T, woodcut, 2006
  • Folding 16-1, metal print, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Herzer, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and wood cutter
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Goeppingen