Walter Klose (painter)

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Walter Klose in his Munich studio

Walter Klose (born January 26, 1921 in Jägerndorf ( Silesia ), † August 10, 2003 in Munich ) was a German painter .

family

Walter Klose came from a Catholic weaver family in Silesia. His wife Rosemarie (Taubert) (1920–2012) managed the artist's estate, his daughter Eva-Maria (* 1958) works as a painter and graphic artist .

Life and work

Striding man , approx. 1998
Untitled , ca.1970

At the age of 14 he decided to pursue an artistic profession and first attended the Gablonz arts and crafts college (1937–1939), where he learned commercial graphics. From 1940 to 1944 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and was a master student of Joseph Wackerle . From 1944 he worked exclusively as a painter in his own Munich studio . From 1959 he made regular trips to Greece .

Within the art forms, Klose changed subjects several times, looking for his own means of expression. In the early post-war period, several exhibitions took place, from 1950 he devoted himself to painting in his studio, consistently refusing to participate in the art business: “I just didn't want to exhibit. You always run the risk of selling yourself. ” It was not until the mid-1980s that Klose's pictures could be seen again in exhibitions.

Klose refused to paint only abstractly , allowing spatial, representational and, above all, plastic elements in his art. He often worked on his pictures for a long time, beginning indefinitely with spots, colors, rhythms, light or dark moods, putting the picture away and resolving it again: “I've never finished painting a picture on a seat, it drags on over the years. ” Today, Klose's pictures are almost exclusively in private collections.

Exhibitions

  • 1947 Roman Norbert Ketterer ( Stuttgart )
  • 1948 State Museum Hanover ( Art Association Hanover ), Maier-Lengeling Gallery ( Nuremberg )
  • 1983 Volksbank Gallery ( Murrhardt )
  • 1988 Fred Jahn Gallery (Munich)
  • 1992 gallery in the BBV house (Munich)
  • 1993 Jahn Gallery + Hasenclever Gallery (Munich)
  • 1994 Gallery in the town hall (Munich)
  • 1994 Water Lily Prize of the City of Munich
  • 1995 Franke Gallery (Stuttgart)
  • 2002 Gallery in the Ganserhaus (Wasserburg / Inn)
  • 2004 Eching cultural center
  • 2011 Karl & Faber (Munich)

Quotes

  • "Color, spot and rhythm, that is much more important than a precise statement."
  • "The figure is more important than the individual, and the still life is more important than the individual flower."
  • "Something unfinished and open can be much better than what is finished."

literature

  • Friederike Streib "Facets of Landscape Painting with Walter Klose", Master's thesis Munich 2009
  • Walter Klose: "Comments on painting". Munich 2002
  • A. Krauss: generation of painters of the post-war period. Donau Kurier (Ingolstadt) No. 269, 23 November 1994, p. 14
  • Adriane Heimendahl "The Magician" in: Kunst-Feuilleton, Munich 1993
  • C. Jaeckel: On the right track. Conversation with Walter Klose. tz (Munich) June 10, 1988
  • The plastic element in painting. Murrhardter Zeitung November 25, 1983

Web links

Commons : Walter Klose  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Klose, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Jägerndorf (Silesia)
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2003
Place of death Munich