Peter Klasen

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Peter Klasen (1997)

Peter Klasen (born August 18, 1935 in Lübeck ) is a German contemporary sculptor, painter and photographer living in France.

life and work

After completing his high school time from 1945 to 1955 at the Katharineum in Lübeck , Peter Klasen began studying at the Berlin Art School in 1956, a . a. with Hans Jaenisch , and in 1958 received a master class atelier with Hann Trier . In 1959 he went to Paris; a year later he took part in group exhibitions for the first time. Together with Erró and others, he belonged to the newly founded group “Figuration Narrative”, which saw itself as a counterpoint and reaction to the then predominant abstract painting and had its first exhibition in 1964 at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris . In 1967 he was selected to supervise the Nuremberg Institute for Modern Art. In 1985/86 he was a teacher at the European Art Academy in Trier . Klasen created numerous work cycles, including Le Mur de Berlin in 1988 , a work series on the Berlin Wall. “Artist, contemporary witness and visionary at the same time, Klasen made a series of large-format canvases, fragments of the world's most famous border system, a year before the fall of the Wall.” This and other cycles (for example Récits et avis de recherche, Hiroshima ) reflect Klasen's analysis reflected with current political history. His series La Passion de Dunkerque went from 1989 to 1993 as a traveling exhibition, beginning in the Paris City Hall , to the “Museum of Art” in Taiwan, from there a. a. via Poland to the “Biennale d'art sacré” in Pescara and to Quebec in Canada.

Klasen's work has been exhibited in numerous countries and bought up by renowned museums and collections. He received commissions for frescoes in public buildings in France. Daniel Sibony wrote of Klasen's imagery that it celebrates “our modern, high-tech, sterile society in order to denounce its inhuman coolness and threatening emptiness.” With his work, Klasen leads the viewer “before an inevitable and uncompromising confrontation with brutal reality of today's society. ”Sabine Glaubitz wrote about his visual art: “ For Klasen, the narrative figuration influenced by the pop art language offered the opportunity to implement motifs from the new technical world - machines and constructions - in his compositions. His pictures have a cool, impersonal, photo-like formal language, some of which depict objects from the modern consumer world in collage form. Like many of the «Figuration narrative» artists, he was inspired by photos from daily newspapers, magazines and film posters. "

Peter Klasen was a member of the German Association of Artists . He lives in Châteauneuf-Grasse with his wife and two daughters .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Works in collections and museums

Repository Image title Year of origin Height × width technology
Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Reservoirs 1980 260 × 200 cm Acrylic on canvas
Ludwig Collection , Aachen Colonnes sèches d'incendie 1977 180 × 260 cm Acrylic on canvas

literature

  • Wolfgang Becker, Inken Nowald, Gilbert Lascault, Peter Gorsen , Jens Christian Jensen, Marie Luise Syring , Heinz Ohff, Peter Hopf: Peter Klasen. 25 years of work . Art Office Wedding, Berlin 1996
  • Wolfgang Becker, Maya Klasen (editor): Peter Klasen. Keep out. Painting . New Gallery (Ludwig Collection), Aachen 1979
  • Peter Klasen, histoire de lieux ordinaires. Peintures . Carré, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-86574-015-3
  • Gilbert Lascault: Peter Klasen. Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel 2005, ISBN 2-8258-0221-2
  • Philippe Monsel (Ed.): Peter Klasen . Cercle d'Art, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-7022-0790-1
  • Heinz Ohff : Hann Trier and the Trier students . Galerie Scheffel, Homburg vdH 1985
  • Daniel Sibony: Peter Klasen. nowhere anywhere. photographies 1970-2005 . Éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-7022-0795-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Sibony: Biography Peter Klasen for the exhibition 2007 in the Galerie Raphael 12 , Frankfurt / M.
  2. ^ Daniel Sibony: Peter Klasen . Retrieved May 8, 2011 from : kunstmarkt.com
  3. ^ Sabine Glaubitz (dpa): Socio-critical art in the Grand Palais . In: The West . The portal of the WAZ media group on April 16, 2008
  4. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Klasen, Peter ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 9, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
personal data
SURNAME Klasen, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, painter and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck