Robert Klippel
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Robert Klippel (born June 19, 1920 in Sydney , † June 19, 2001 in Sydney) was an Australian sculptor and draftsman.
life and work
Robert Klippel already knew at the age of six that he wanted to become a model maker. In 1939 he began his service in the Royal Australian Navy , building models of ships and aircraft that were used to train the Navy at the Gunnery Instruction Center .
After the Second World War he studied traditional sculpture in Sydney at East Sydney Technical College and in London at the Slade School of Fine Art . Like many other Australian artists, such as Leonard French , Grahame King and Inge Neufeld , he was at The Abbey Arts Center and Museum in New Barnet , north London.
In 1947 he went to London and in 1948 he had his first exhibition at the London Gallery in London. He went to Paris, where there were many surrealist artists who worked there. His style changed from figurative to abstract art after 1949 . He by no means became part of a particular art movement, his work was surrealistic - with wood as the material - and constructivist object art and action art . He used material from the junkyard, including industrial waste and other parts.
From 1957 to 1963 and 1966 from 1967 Klippel was in the United States , first in New York and from 1958 to 1962 as a lecturer in sculpture at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design , until he returned to New York. He came into contact with abstract expressionism while viewing an exhibition of the work of David Smith in the Museum of Modern Art .
After his return to Sydney, he never left Australia and lived and worked in the Birchgrove district of Sydney, not far from a shipyard, where he collected the material for his works. From 1975 to 1979 Klippel was a lecturer at the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education , now the art faculty of the University of New South Wales . During his creative period, Klippel made around 1,300 sculptures and around 5,000 drawings.
In 2002, the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney presented a comprehensive retrospective entitled A Tribute Exhibition , followed by the exhibition Opus 2008 at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne in 2008 .
Work (selection)
- Construction No. 123 (1962), Art Gallery of New South Wales , Sydney
- No. 129 (1962), sculpture park of the Heide Museum of Modern Art
- Opus 250 (No. 250 metal construction) - a work made of metal and as an objet trouvé from 1970, National Gallery of Australia in Canberra
- Group of eight bronzes (dt. Group of eight bronzes ) (1982) before the sculpture park of the National Gallery of Art
- No. 129 Sentinel (1987), La Trobe University Sculpture Park
- Opus 300 (1972–1974), Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Opus 655 (1988), Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Number 751 , a bronze sculpture in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Park in Canberra
- Painted Wood Sculptures (dt. Painted wooden sculptures ) (1989) - cast 79 wooden sculptures, some in bronze, Niagara Gallery
- Installation (1995) - 87 small pewter sculptures, Art Gallery of New South Wales
- No. 951 Diorama (1968–2001) - steel and bronze construction, Art Gallery of New South Wales
literature
- James Gleeson: Robert Klippel Baybooks (1983), Kensington in New South Wales
- Deborah Edwards: Robert Klippel: Large wood sculptures and collages Art Gallery of New South Wales (1995), Sydney
- Deborah Edwards: Robert Klippel Art Gallery of New South Wales (2002), Sydney
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on niagara-galleries.com.au . Retrieved August 8, 2010
- ↑ a b c Ken Scarlett: Robert Klippel: Australia's Greatest Sculptor. Online at sculpture.org . Retrieved August 8, 2010
- ↑ Robert Klippel on qag.qld.gov.au . Retrieved August 8, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klippel, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sydney |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 2001 |
| Place of death | Sydney |