Klaus Vogelgesang

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Klaus Vogelgesang, Berlin 2011

Klaus Vogelgesang (born April 27, 1945 in Radebeul ) is a German draftsman and painter who became known in the 1970s as one of the leading exponents of critical realism from West Berlin .

Life

After moving to Berlin in 1965, Vogelgesang began studying at the State Academy for Graphics, Printing and Advertising. He completed this in 1969 and has since worked as a freelance artist in Berlin. In 1972 Vogelgesang with Hermann Albert , Bettina von Arnim , Ulrich Baehr , Hans-Jürgen Diehl , Arwed D. Gorella , Maina-Miriam Munsky , Wolfgang Petrick , Joachim Schmettau , Peter Sorge and Jürgen Waller was a founding member of the West Berlin artist group Aspect , before moving to Rome in 1976 to study at the Villa Massimo . In 1977 he participated in Documenta 6 in Kassel in the drawing department and became a member of the German Association of Artists . From 1993 to 2010 he held a professorship for drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. Klaus Vogelgesang lives as a freelance artist in Berlin.

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“In the mid-1960s, due to the city's island location, critical realism emerged in West Berlin. With the help of overpointing, caricature drawings and assembly techniques, the Critical Realists seek to grapple with the apolitical idyll of the affluent bourgeoisie, which flourished again in the years after the Second World War. They denounce war, terror, exploitation and corruption, point to the suffering of the helpless and failed livelihoods or draw attention to marginalized groups in German society. For a long time, critical realism has been regarded as an identity mark for West Berlin art. ”In the second half of the 1960s, Klaus Vogelgesang developed the first depictions of people in the big city with a pencil, in which, on the one hand, parts with difficult shading were practically painted, but also leave purely graphic contours unfinished as a line. Aggression appears in many forms in his drawings. According to the principle of collage, the not yet mastered German past of National Socialism , interpersonal disputes or the consumer society are discussed. Vogelgesang incorporates portraits of Franz Josef Strauss , rock stars or Micky Mouse into his scenery. The Verists of the Weimar period such as Otto Dix , George Grosz , Rudolf Schlichter or Karl Hubbuch serve as role models . In the mid-1970s, Vogelgesang's drawings became larger in size and exceeded the two-meter mark. Works such as An der Mauer (1977, graphite and colored pencils on cardboard, 147 × 147 cm, private collection Düsseldorf), the triptych Großstadt (1977, graphite and colored pencils on cardboard, 196 × 450 cm, Federal Art Collection ) or A Little Man Standing im Walde (1979, graphite and colored pencils on cardboard, 200 × 300 cm, Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin ), with which the artist advanced to become one of the main exponents of critical realism. In 1974 he illustrated the preprint of the novel The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll in the mirror .

From 1985 Vogelgesang describes his work in the style of Critical Realism as "formulated". He begins to experiment with abstract elements, the works become more colorful. There are also techniques in watercolor, acrylic paint and chalk. "I think that in the second half of life the existential questions almost inevitably change and these changes are then also expressed in the work itself." The pictorial space becomes less clear and gains depth. “The way leads inwards” ( Eberhard Roters 1988 on the work of Klaus Vogelgesang).

Awards

Working in public collections

A list of the works that are in public collections is in the exhibition catalog Klaus Vogelgesang 1969–1982 , ed. by Dieter Ruckhaberle , Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin , 1982 on p. 6 under “Lender”. There is also information on the solo and group exhibitions (p. 13 and 16) and on the literature and illustrations (p. 18).

Solo exhibitions (selection)

A further list of the solo and group exhibitions is in the exhibition catalog Klaus Vogelgesang. Works 1985–1988 , ed. from the Städtisches Museum Göttingen and Galerie Apex, Göttingen / Berlin 1988 included on pp. 19–21.

Group exhibitions (selection)

Illustrations (selection)

A list of the illustrations can be found in the Klaus Vogelgesang exhibition catalog . Works 1985–1988 , ed. from the Städtisches Museum Göttingen and Galerie Apex, Göttingen / Berlin 1988 included on p. 22.

  • Victor Otto Stomps (Ed.): Agenda-Vormerk-Schreibafeln for all days of the year 1968 . Raben-Presse, Berlin 1967.
  • Witold Gombrowicz , Die Ratte , Anabis Verlag, Berlin 1973.
  • My time-my predator . Russian poetry with illustrations by Berlin artists, Anabis Verlag, Berlin 1973.
  • Heinrich Böll , The lost honor of Katharina Blum . In: Der Spiegel , Issues No. 31–34, 1974.
  • Erotic poetry and graphics , Anabis Verlag, Berlin 1975.
  • Charles Bukowski , Cage of Greed , Playboy , No. 8/1977.
  • Axel Thormählen: Hanky , Merlin Verlag , Hamburg 1978.

Work documentation

A listing of the literature is in the exhibition catalog Klaus Vogelgesang. Works 1985–1988 , ed. from the Städtisches Museum Göttingen and Galerie Apex, Göttingen / Berlin 1988 included on pages 22 and 23.

Web links

Commons : Klaus Vogelgesang  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Vogelgesang on the website of the German Association of Artists; accessed on December 29, 2018
  2. ↑ Jan Schüler : Painting away the fear. About the life and work of Maina-Miriam Munsky . In: Maina Miriam Munsky: inventory of paintings and drawings 1968–1998 . Verlag Kettler, Bönen 2013, pp. 22, 24, ISBN 978-3-86206-292-8 .
  3. ↑ Illustration on the Bundeskunstsammlung page; accessed on December 28, 2018
  4. ↑ Paul Spies , Dominik Bartmann (ed.): The beauty of the big city. Berlin pictures from Gaertner to Fetting . Ephraim-Palais / Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin , Berlin 2018, pp. 218, 219, ISBN 978-3-939254-46-1 .
  5. ↑ New framing of the drawing for the exhibition in the Ephraim-Palais 2018 on youtube.com; accessed on December 29, 2018
  6. ^ Re: Klaus Vogelgesang . In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 , 1974 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Article about Klaus Vogelgesang from November 2015, accessed on December 16, 2018
  8. ↑ Conversation between Christel Irmscher and Klaus Vogelgesang. In. Klaus Vogelgesang. Works 1985–1988 , ed. from the Göttingen Municipal Museum and the Apex Gallery. Göttingen, Berlin 1988, p. 14.
  9. ↑ Documentation on the website of Klaus Vogelgesang, accessed on December 29, 2018
  10. ^ Works by Klaus Vogelgesang on the website of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; accessed on December 28, 2018
  11. ↑ Works by Klaus Vogelgesang on the Bundeskunstsammlung website , accessed on December 28, 2018
  12. ↑ Works by Klaus Vogelgesang on a page of the German Bundestag; accessed on December 29, 2018
  13. ↑ Biography with solo and group exhibitions on the workshop gallery page : artists / Klaus Vogelgesang
  14. ↑ Exhibition overview . Website of the Lietzow Gallery; accessed on January 4, 2019
  15. ↑ Note on the exhibition in the Caspers Gallery on berliner.de; accessed on January 4, 2019
  16. ↑ Images of the 4 etchings on Witold Gombrowicz on the website of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , accessed on December 29, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Birdsong, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Radebeul