Klaus Klemp

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Klaus Klemp (born June 24, 1954 in Dortmund ) is a German design and art historian and exhibition curator . He is a full professor at the Offenbach University of Design and honorary professor for design history and design theory at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden and is a curator for design at the Museum of Applied Arts in Frankfurt am Main . Director Institute for Design Exchange (IDEe).

Life

Klemp studied design and visual communication in Dortmund and Münster as well as art history and history at the Philipps University of Marburg. In 1991 he received his doctorate with a thesis on industrial construction in the early modern period. The Frankfurt head of the cultural department, Hilmar Hoffmann , brought him to the Office for Science and Art in 1988 as an art consultant, where he headed the cultural department from 1989 to 2006. From 1988 to 1996 he was also head of the municipal gallery in the Carmelite monastery and from 1988 to 2006 of the municipal gallery in the canvas house . 1995 to 2005 member of the Presidium of the German Design Council . 2006 to 2012 exhibition director and from 2012 to 2014 deputy director at the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main . After teaching positions in Nuremberg, Wiesbaden and Würzburg, since 2008 honorary professor in the Department of Computer Science and Media Design at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden and since 2014 professor in the Department of Product Design at the HfG Offenbach . In 2009 Klemp was appointed to the board of the Dieter and Ingeborg Rams Foundation . Since 2018 Chairman of the Ernst May Society in Frankfurt am Main.

Research and activity areas

Since the 1980s, Klemp has primarily been involved in architecture, communication and product design. In the 1980s and 1990s, he mainly presented new computer-oriented positions in communication design in exhibitions and publications ( Neville Brody , Hard Werken , Studio Dumbar ). In addition, the field of art in public space and public design is a theoretical and practical field of activity. He has supervised numerous competitions on art in public space in Frankfurt (including the Neuer Börneplatz Memorial , 1995 - Adorno Memorial , 2003 - Frankfurter Märchenbrunnen , 2006). In recent times, Klemp has primarily been concerned with a function- oriented design (exhibition Less and More. The Design Ethos by Dieter Rams ) with design in the Rhine-Main area since the 1920s and with the paradigms of design processes.

Exhibitions

Publications

  • Industrial buildings in the late German Empire. Studies on the prerequisites for development, structural design and program of industrial construction between 1900 and 1918 using examples from the Rhine-Main area. Dissertation. Marburg 1989.
  • (Ed.): Chapter 3. Digital-Fictional. Karmeliterkloster exhibition hall, 7 May to 13 June 1993. Projects by Jochen Gros, Jochem Hendricks , Marko Lehanka, Max Mohr, Christian Möller, Peter Weibel and others. a. Schmidt, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-87439-264-3 .
  • with Manfred Sack : Underworlds. Hidden places. Wasmuth, Tübingen / Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-8030-2808-6 .
  • (Ed.): Stadt-Bild. A project on the relationship between art and the city in Frankfurt am Main after 1945. Schmidt, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-87439-342-9 .
  • with Volker Albus: Dear guest. To the state of the home on time. Edition Menges, Stuttgart / London 1996, ISBN 3-930698-82-X .
  • with Peter Weiermair (Ed.): Alfred Hrdlicka. Sculptures, drawings, prints 1945–1997. Edition Stemmle, Kilchberg 1997, ISBN 3-908162-74-2 .
  • The USM Haller furniture system. Verlag Form, Frankfurt 1997, ISBN 3-931317-14-5 .
  • Eberhard Steneberg. Pictures 1948–1978. January 24–1. March 1998. Carmelite Monastery, Frankfurt 1998, ISBN 3-88270-751-3 .
  • Above. Frankfurt am Main. Towers of the city. Photos by Peter Seidel . Wasmuth, Tübingen / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-8030-0185-4 .
  • Photographs by Inge Werth : In bed. Anabas-Verlag, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-87038-326-7 .
  • with Angela Ribbe (ed.): The question of the question. Future through science, future of science. Topics and problems of future research. Lectures of the event from March 1st to 3rd, 2001 in the German Library. Kramer, Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 3-7829-0527-X .
  • with Pavel Khoroshilov (ed.): Naked for Stalin. Body images in Russian photography in the 20s and 30s. anabas, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 3-87038-358-5 .
  • Trash meets high-rise. Essays on public space. Anabas-Verlag, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-87038-360-7 .
  • Martin Pudenz in conversation with Klaus Klemp. In: Martin Pudenz: Light in Heaven. Photographs. Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-89904-110-0 , pp. 6-11.
  • with Ulrich Mattner and Stephan Morgenstern (eds.): Frankfurt Inside. Kehrer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-939583-08-1 (therein: Pictures from inside the city. Pp. 7-13)
  • with Karl Weber (ed.): fragile. The table of the tsars and the porcelain of the revolutionaries. Porcelain as an art and instrument in diplomacy, economy and society; Russian dining culture from the 18th to the 20th century. Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7954-2056-7 .
  • with Keiko Ueki-Polet (Ed.): Less and More. The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams . Gestalten, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89955-277-5 .
  • with Matthias Wagner K (Ed.): Randscharf. Design in Iceland. Gestalten, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89955-390-1 .
  • with Hehn-Chu Ahn and Matthias Wagner K (eds.): Korea-Korea. A photo project by Dieter Leistner , Gestalten, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89955-487-8 .
  • with Hehn-Chu Ahn and Matthias Wagner K (eds.): Korea Power. Gestalten, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89955-488-5 .
  • with Julia Koch and Matthias Wagner K (eds.): alex wollner brasil. design visual , Ernst Wasmuth, Tübingen Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8030-3214-0
  • design in frankfurt. 1920 to 1990. avedition, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-89986-207-2
  • with Matthias Wagner K (Ed.): Alles Neu! 100 Years of New Typography and New Graphics in Frankfurt am Main , avedition, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-89986-246-1
  • with Matthias Wagner K (Ed.): thinking tools. Design as a process - How writing implements are made, avedition, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-89986-256-0
  • with Grit Weber / Annika Sellmann / Matthias Wagner K: Moderne am Main 1919 - 1933. avedition, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-89986-303-1

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personal data
SURNAME Klemp, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German design and art historian and exhibition curator
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund