Klaus Uhlig

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Klaus Rainer Uhlig (born December 31, 1932 in Altenburg in Thuringia ) is a German architect and visual artist . He also published a number of papers on urban development .

Career

From 1953 to 1957 Uhlig studied architecture and artistic subjects (sculpture, drawing, nudes, color theory, lithography, artistic techniques) at the Weimar University of Architecture and Construction . He then continued his art studies at the Technical University of Berlin with the subjects nude / sculpture and drawing / painting and graduated in 1961 with a diploma. In 1962 he received the Master of Arts at the American Harvard University (teacher including Le Corbusier ) . At the European Academy of Fine Arts Trier he trained at Walter Henn in lithography , in Cologne at Seyyit Bozdogan in portrait drawing and in Bonn in life drawing at Volker Altrichter continued. Uhlig has lived in Cologne since 1969.

Artistic work

Uhlig paints in oil, using pigments that he mixes himself. He uses printmaking technology as well as object technology. In 1997 the Art Items dedicated a work exhibition to him in the Cologne town hall with an overview of 110 works.

As a city designer, Uhlig u. a. at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (1964 to 1965). Uhlig is a member of the Federal Association of Visual Artists .

Museums, collections and foundations

Fonts (selection)

  • Urban design in the residential area , Der Oberstadtdirektor, Department for Urban Development and Environmental Protection, City Planning Office, Cologne 1984.
  • Planning cells, building blocks of a democratic planning process , Deutsches Volksheimstättenwerk, Cologne 1980.
  • The pedestrian-friendly city , Hatje, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-7757-0120-6 .
  • Urban renewal in the USA , Uhlig, Bonn 1971, ISBN 3-87832-003-5
  • More residential property through new financing methods , Stadtbau-Verlag, Bonn 1970.
  • Co-translation of 'Die Nordweststadt' , Krämer, Stuttgart 1964.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the summer of 2018 he gave a video interview to the Weimar library director Frank Simon-Ritz in which he a. a. talked about his experiences as a student.
personal data
SURNAME Uhlig, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uhlig, Klaus Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg