Klaus Tober

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Klaus Tober (born April 30, 1950 in Parchim ; † February 20, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

On the recommendation of his art teacher, Klaus Tober took part in an international drawing competition in New Delhi at the age of 16 with the linocut spring order and received the Nehru gold medal. In 1969 he began studying art education at the Humboldt University in Berlin , which he successfully completed in 1973. He then worked as a teacher in Reinsberg at Jüterbog until 1975 .

From 1974 to 1977 he completed an evening course at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art , after which he studied painting there until 1979 with Hans Vent and Günther Brendel, among others . From 1975 to 1977 Klaus Tober worked for art exhibitions in the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . From 1977 he worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist.

Already seriously ill in 1992, Klaus Tober died at the age of 43.

His oeuvre covers a broad spectrum such as oil painting , graphics , collages and photography . He was always looking for new ways of artistic expression. At the end of the 1980s, he developed a technique that enabled him to work in a playful, experimental and targeted manner. He stuck tissue paper on colored grounds , painted over them, rubbed them with damp sponges until bizarre structures emerged. In the oil and graphic works, light and shadow effects make his figures appear particularly intense and profound.

Works (selection)

  • 1988/89 between waiting and leaving (tissue paper torn, stuck, on hardboard)
  • 1991 Companions II - The Wave (Oil, Trilogy)
  • 1992 Wall heads 1–8 (mixed media on paper)

His works are in the possession of the Schering Kunstverein, Allianz , the Social Artist Promotion Berlin, the Beeskow Art Archive and numerous private collectors. In 2009 the painter's widow handed over the artistic estate to the Federal Art Administration in the Federal Office for Central Services and Unresolved Property Issues .

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1978 district art exhibition at the television tower, Berlin
  • 1980 Exhibitions at the Folk Art Museum Leipzig in Havana and Vienna
  • 1991 Upper gallery in the house on Lützowplatz , Berlin
  • 1991 and 1992 Free Berlin Art Exhibition
  • 1993 First retrospective painting and sculpture by the Berlin Social Artist Fund

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the exhibition as part of the series of events Musik.Zeit.Geschehen in the Berlin Federal Ministry of Finance, p. 31 (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Tober, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Parchim
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1994
Place of death Berlin