Klaus Iserlohe

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Klaus Iserlohe (born September 20, 1928 in Wermelskirchen ; † March 9, 2011 in Mönchengladbach ) was a German sculptor in the field of Christian art .

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The son of a hat maker received private lessons in drawing and painting at a young age and at times attended a carving school in Austria. After finishing school he studied sculpture under Josef Henselmann at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1949 . In order to expand his range of activities and refine his techniques, Iserlohe also undertook several study trips during this time. In Sweden the lighting conditions there stimulated him to paint. During a study trip to Rome in 1952/53, he gained impressions of the dimensions and shapes of numerous medieval and ancient monuments and of sacred art. Here he also acquired the anatomy knowledge necessary for his work . In the years 1953/54 Iserlohe practiced at the Cologne Dombauhütte ; then he returned to Munich and finished his studies there in 1958 with the final exam.

Subsequently, the Aachen cathedral master builder Leo Hugot appointed him to the Aachen cathedral construction works, where he was entrusted with independent sculptural work. After completing this work in 1960, Iserlohe stayed in Aachen as a freelance artist; he later also set up a house in Mönchengladbach. In the next forty years or more, Iserlohe created a large number of art objects for numerous churches and ecclesiastical institutions throughout North Rhine-Westphalia and beyond. A progressive illness forced him to give up his studio in Aachen. He died on March 9, 2011 as a result of this disease; he was buried in the Aachen Westfriedhof . Iserlohe was married to Marlies, née Andre, with whom he had three children.

During his creative years, the withdrawn artist refrained from taking part in effective promotional exhibitions and did not establish relationships with corresponding galleries, which is why he has not yet been mentioned in the literature of contemporary art. He only trusted in the expressiveness and thus in the dynamic effect of his works of art, which he usually did not even sign with his name. A cross-section of his complete works was presented at a single exhibition in 2010 in Mönchengladbach Minster with the title “ Earth Mother and Heavenly Woman and Stations in the Life of Christ ”.

Iserlohe's preference was to work with hard and durable materials such as domestic bluestone or wenge wood . The resulting art objects, which can be classified between sculpture and architecture, are in a tension between space and body and are characterized more by a flat perspective and less by a spatial perspective .

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personal data
SURNAME Iserlohe, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor of sacred art
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Wermelskirchen
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 2011
Place of death Mönchengladbach