Klaus Jürgen Schoen

Klaus Jürgen Schoen (born April 9, 1931 in Königsberg , East Prussia ; † March 8, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German painter . His work is assigned to Concrete Art .

life and work

Klaus Jürgen Schoen was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, in 1931. In 1951 he began studying at the University of Applied Arts in East Berlin . For political reasons, he moved to the University of Fine Arts in West Berlin a year later . As a master student of Ernst Schumacher , who mainly painted impressionistic landscapes, he was able to continue working in his own studio. He soon broke away from Schumacher's teaching and began to explore graphic media and its effects.

Although Schoen's work was repeatedly exhibited and received in the context of the main representatives of Concrete Art , he did not see himself as a representative of this art movement. Schoen himself described his way of working as constructive. In the actual execution, in contrast to many other concrete artists, he was not interested in a mere implementation of a system. Rather, the way to break down the boundaries of a system should be an artistic goal in order to be able to free the image space from everything superfluous. In the painting process Schoen was more concerned with a balanced composition, a transformation of his own modes of experience, with the interplay of clear stringency and intuition. His work is characterized by its simplicity and the associated reduction to the essentials.

Since the early 1970s, Schoen has been invited to numerous solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. From 1977 he was a member of the Systema group, a loose community of artists whose aim was to bring different positions together and consciously avoid a uniform group tendency. Important participants in the Systema group's exhibitions were George Rickey, Peter Sedgley, Johannes Geccelli, Andreas Brandt, Frank Badur, Christian Roeckenschuss and Klaus Steinmann. On the occasion of one of the group's first exhibitions in 1977 in the Loeb Gallery (Bern), Richard Paul Lohse gave the opening speech.

Grave of Klaus J. Schoen in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Klaus J. Schoen worked with the gallery owners Axel Knipschild, Dorothea Loehr, Hubertus Schoeller and Heinz Teufel , among others .

Schoen lived and worked in Berlin .

Klaus J. Schoen died a month before his 87th birthday on March 8, 2018 in Berlin. The funeral service and burial took place on March 20, 2018 at the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend .

Solo exhibitions

• 1972 Diogenes Gallery, Berlin
• 1979 Christel Gallery, Stockholm
• 1979 Galerie im Zentrum, Berlin
• 1980 Hilger + Schmeer Gallery, Duisburg
• 1980 Rupert Walser Gallery, Munich
• 1983 Gallery Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
• 1984 “Retrospective”, Kunstverein Braunschweig
• 1984 Loehr Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
• 1986 Galerie Repères, Paris
• 1986 Hilger Gallery, Aachen
• 1987 Ars Nova Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 1988 New Berlin Art Association, Berlin
• 1988 Loehr Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
• 1989 Studio A, Museum of Modern Art, Otterndorf
• 1990 Ars Nova Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 1991 Galerie Kunstraum, Berlin
• 1995 Kunsthaus am Moritzplatz, Berlin
• 1995 Mies van der Rohe House, Berlin
• 1998 Heinz Teufel Gallery - european art concrete, Berlin
• 1998 Art Museum Gelsenkirchen
• 2002 Works from the 1990s, Gallery for Concrete Art, Berlin
• 2005 New Works, Gallery for Concrete Art, Potsdam
• 2010 Reflections, Kunstraum Roy
• 2012 Line paintings, Kunstraum Roy
• 2014 Lineare Korrespondenz (with Hartmut Böhm), ​​Galerie Lindner, Vienna
• 2014 Irregular formats, Kunstraum Roy
• 2014 Black & White Dialogue (with Imre Kocsis), Vasarely Museum, Budapest
• 2014 Galerie Leonhard, Graz
• 2015 Galerie Wack, Kaiserslautern (with Doris Kaiser)
• 2015 Klaus J. Schoen retrospective, Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel am Kaiserstuhl

Participation in exhibitions

• 1973 Diogenes Gallery, Berlin
• 1974 Diogenes Gallery, Berlin
• 1977 Systema group, Galerie Bossin, Berlin
• 1978 Systema group, Loeb Gallery, Bern
• 1978 Systema group, Galerie Krüll, Krefeld
• 1979 Concrete concepts, Galerie Bossin, Berlin
• 1979 Constructive Concepts, Galerie Christel, Stockholm
• 1980 Gruppe Zero, Concrete and New Constructive Art, Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf
• 1980 Three Berlin Concrete (Badur – Brandt – Schoen), Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg
• 1981 Constructive tendencies, Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
• 1982 drawings, Galerie im Zentrum, Berlin
• 1983 Gallery Bossin, Berlin
• 1983 Concrete Art Today, Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf
• 1983 three, Nuremberg
• 1986 Gallery Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
• 1987 Ars Nova Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 1990 Ars Nova Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 1991 Gallery Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
• 1991 Graphic, Konstruktiv – Konkret from 1960 – today, Kunsthaus am Moritzplatz + Kunstraum Galerie, Berlin
• 1992 Art and Norm, DIN Institute, Berlin
• 1992 Berlin Konkret, Brno
• 1992 Berlin Konkret, Bratislava
• 1993 Abstraction – Concretion, Kunsthaus am Moritzplatz, Berlin
• 1994 Repères Paris, dix ans pour l´art construit 1982–1992, Foundation for Concrete Art, Reutlingen
• 1994 Geometric abstraction and experimental architecture, Kunsthaus am Moritzplatz, Berlin
• 1994 Konstruktiv – Konkret, Kunsthaus am Moritzplatz, Berlin
• 1995 Art as a Concept, Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg
• 1997 Movement – ​​movement 1949–1995, Galerie Heinz Teufel – european art concrete, Berlin
• 1998 Two generations opposite: Bill, Graeser, Lohse - Brandt, Schoen, Galerie Heinz Teufel and Kunstverein Wedding, Berlin
• 1999 Art meets art: paintings by Klaus J. Schoen and tribal art from Africa and Oceania, Otto Nagel Gallery, Berlin
• 2002 Color-Structure-System-Space, Wiligrad Art Association
• 2002 Color-Structure-System-Space, Forum for Concrete Art, Erfurt
• 2002 Structure – Line – Space, Gallery for Concrete Art Berlin
• 2003 Diagonal in Area and Space, Wiligrad Art Association
• 2004 Accrochage, Gallery for Concrete Art Berlin
• 2004 Gallery for Concrete Art Berlin (Böhm, Gappmayr, Schoen)
• 2004 Accrochage, Gallery for Concrete Art Berlin – Potsdam
• 2005 Vertical, Kunstverein Wiligrad
• 2006 Horizontal, vertical, seules: art concret, Musée Tavet – Delacour, Pontoise
• 2009 Horizontal – Concrete Art from Europe, Wiligrad Art Association
• 2010 GENERATIONS II abstract, concrete, irrelevant. - Kunsthalle Brennabor , Brandenburg an der Havel
• 2012 OSAS PLUS, Vasarely Museum, Budapest
• 2013 The luck of collecting - KunstHaus Potsdam eV, Potsdam
• 2013 drawing of the 4th gallery Lindner, Vienna
• 2013 Grauwinkel Collection, Vasarely Museum, Budapest
• 2014 Summer 2014, Galerie Leonhard, Graz
• 2014 10 years Hubertus Schoeller Foundation, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren
• 2014 White - Aspects of a Color in Modern and Present, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg
• 2014 appartement d'un collectionneur n ° 5, galerie gimpel & müller, Paris
• 2015 Black & White II, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich
• 2015 Black on White, Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt

Works in public collections (selection)

• Art Museum Gelsenkirchen, D
• Hubertus Schoeller Foundation in the Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, D
• Museum of non-representational art, Otterndorf, D
• Kunstforum Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, D
• Peter C. Ruppert Collection, Concrete Art after 1945, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, D
• László-Vass-Collection, Veszprém, H.
• Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel am Kaiserstuhl, D
• Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus / Suha, Carinthia, A

literature

• Hans Peter Riese: Klaus J. Schoen: Harmony of Silence. Painting 1968–2010 . Wienand, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-86832-269-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice for Klaus J. Schoen in the FAZ on March 17, 2018. Accessed on December 9, 2019.
2. ^ Obituary notice for Klaus J. Schoen in the FAZ on March 17, 2018. Accessed on December 9, 2019.