Klaus Staudt

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Klaus Staudt (born September 14, 1932 in Otterndorf , Niederelbe) is a German painter. He became known for serial geometric reliefs.

biography

Staudt studied medicine in Marburg an der Lahn and in Munich from 1954 to 1959. After a guest study with Ernst Geitlinger at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1957 , he began regular studies there from 1959. In 1963 he became a member of the avant-garde international artist group Neue Tendenzen . From 1974 to 1994 he was a professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main . At the same time he was responsible for the conception and construction of the collection of concrete art in the district of Cuxhaven, today the museum of non-representational art , and worked on its presentation and expansion. In 2010 he was accepted into the Ingolstadt Foundation for Concrete Art and Design . Klaus Staudt is a member of the German Association of Artists . He lives and works in Frankfurt am Main.

Klaus Staudt is one of the leading exponents of constructive-concrete art in Germany. In particular, the aesthetics of uniform grid structures are groundbreaking for his work. The basic compositional module is the square, which he has varied, modulated and paraphrased over decades. From the 1980s on, Staudt also used the vertical as an alternative module, which established a parallel group of works. Structures, grids and the color white also find their way into his compositions. Staudt also uses a wide range of materials such as wood and translucent Plexiglas. With withdrawn means, the artist creates light and shadow, space and movement as well as a transparent visual spatiality that varies depending on the viewer's point of view. The viewer thus becomes a "co-author" who has an active role in the interactive image viewing process. Especially in Staudt's early work, the preoccupation with the representation of visibly immaterial - for example the visualization of light and shadow - is characteristic. Above all, the color white, but also the use of delicate colors from the 1980s onwards, play an essential role in addressing the interaction between color, light reflection and surface. From the mid-1960s, Staudt negotiated compositions in two pictorial levels. By superimposing and one behind the other the picture elements as well as closing the picture space by means of an often opaque Plexiglas plate, Staudt generates both blurring and an additional dynamization of picture spaces. Defusing and obscuring replace the system logic. Last but not least, the artist developed fully plastic objects and architectures, which he executed in the 1970s in the form of expansive light steles and light walls. The large-format sculptures and installations of this time tie in with the tension between system logic in square shapes, veiling tactics and the subjective viewer's gaze. In his current creative phase, Staudt consistently moves to objects with extensive components and explores the impression of seemingly unfixed floating.

Exhibitions

  • 2011: Museum for Concrete Art , Ingolstadt. On the move - Klaus Staudt. Work 1990-2010 . Before that at the Art Museum Gelsenkirchen
  • 2010/2011: Winter (group exhibition), Galerie Schlégl, Zurich
  • 2014: Late harvest , Wenger Gallery, Zurich
  • 2020: Klaus Staudt - Layers and Transparencies , Geiger Gallery, Konstanz

Works

  • 1990 Light stele , DaimlerChrysler, Stuttgart and light wall, tax office, Offenbach a. M.
  • 1991/92 light prism, Oberpostdirektion, Bremen.
  • 1996 orthogonal and diagonal structural reliefs shadow relief wall, Dresdner Bank AG, Offenbach a. M.
  • 1998 Blue light steles wall, colored and sandblasted glass walls, Allianz Casino, Treptower, Berlin.
  • 1999 twelve-part wall relief in the entrance area of ​​the State Office for Environmental Protection, Augsburg.
  • 2003 nine colored wall objects as a room installation, Stadtsparkasse Ludwigshafen.
  • 2005 10 sandblasted glass windows “Homage to the Light” in the large consecration room of the Free Religious Community Offenbach am Main

Books

  • Klaus Staudt - Layers and Transparencies , catalog with an essay by Stephan Geiger (German / English), Galerie Geiger, Konstanz 2020
  • artist of the foundation for concrete art and design ingolstadt 01 , edited by Tobias Hoffmann, foundation for concrete art and design ingolstadt, Wienand, Cologne 2012
  • American drawings , catalog with texts by Heinz Liesbrock and Klaus Staudt, Josef Albers -Museum Quadrat Bottrop 2007
  • The picture as a model of thought, Klaus Staudt about Klaus Staudt , book with an introductory text by Herbert Dellwing , Kunstverein Speyer 2007
  • Klaus Staudt , monograph by Hans Peter Riese, Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2002
  • Klaus Staudt, catalog raisonné 1960-1984 , Saarbrücken 1984, with essays by J. Enzweiler, HP Riese, HM Schmidt, V. Vitt, M. Bleyl, S. Rompza, ZM Erdmann, W. Pohl
  • Klaus Staudt, retrospective 1960-1997 , Frankfurt am Main 1997, with articles by HP Riese, P. Volkwein, P. Weirmaier

Awards

  • 1992 Honorary Prize of the 5th International Triennial for Drawing, Breslau.
  • 2003 Artist in residence, for The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, Connecticut.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. Klaus Staudt in the history of the Museum of Object-Free Art Otterndorf ( Memento from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on March 27, 2020)
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "S" / Klaus Staudt (accessed on March 20, 2016)
  3. ↑ http://www.k4-galerie.de/k4_galerie/k4_galerie_kuenstler/staudt_klaus/staudt.htm
personal data
SURNAME Staudt, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Otterndorf