Werner Knaupp

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Werner Knaupp (born May 3, 1936 in Nuremberg ) is a German painter and sculptor .

life and work

Werner Knaupp studied painting from 1957 to 1961 and from 1963 to 1964 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg under Fritz Griebel , Otto Michael Schmitt and Gerhard Wendland . In 1970 and 1971 he was a visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe . In 1977 he took part in documenta 6 in Kassel . From 1986 to 2001 Werner Knaupp taught as a professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. Since 2004 he has been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Werner Knaupp lives and works in Ernhofen near Nuremberg.

A large number of Werner Knaupp's works are based on existential experiences: since 1964, he has been regularly traveling to extreme landscapes (deserts, volcanoes, mountains) such as the Sahara and Antarctica , the Lofoten , Hawaii , New Zealand and Iceland . The conscious experiences of human borderline situations: illness, madness, dying and death were just as influential. Werner Knaupp worked for several months as an auxiliary nurse in the Bayreuth Neurological Hospital (1977 to 1978), in the house where Mother Teresa died in Calcutta in India (1979) and in the crematorium of the city of Nuremberg (1980).

Werner Knaupp's oeuvre, which has been around for more than 50 years, is characterized by different groups of works that follow one another cyclically and each span several years. The individual creative periods differ both thematically and in terms of the materials used. To this day, Knaupp has created ballpoint pen drawings, charcoal drawings, gouaches, ash pictures, iron sculptures, pastels, acrylic paintings and photographs.

Works by the artist can be found in the collections of the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin , the Bundessammlung Bonn, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , the Kunsthalle Hamburg , the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen and the Neue Galerie in Kassel, the Museum Ludwig Cologne, the Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen , the Kunsthalle Mannheim , the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Munich, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Neues Museum Nürnberg and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart .

As a full member of the German Association of Artists , Werner Knaupp took part in most of the annual exhibitions of the DKB from 1967 until 1983.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection):

Group exhibitions (selection):

Awards

Literature (selection)

  • Klaus Gallwitz : Werner Knaupp . In: Young German Artists, 14 × 14 , exhibition catalog Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 1968
  • Lucius Grisebach: Werner Knaupp. Pictures 1977 to 1982 . In: Werner Knaupp. Pictures 1977-1982 , exhibition catalog Nationalgalerie Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunsthalle Bremen, Overbeck-Gesellschaft Lübeck, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg in cooperation with the Institute for Modern Art Nürnberg, 1983, pp. 7-17
  • Jürgen Harten : Werner Knaupp . In: Pictures are not forbidden , exhibition catalog Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf 1982, pp. 248–249
  • Dieter Honisch (Vorw.): 1945–1985 Art in the Federal Republic of Germany , National Gallery. Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-87584-158-1
  • Peter Anselm Riedl: To the sculptural works by Werner Knaupp . In: Werner Knaupp. Fire and iron. Sculptures 1984–1986 , exhibition catalog Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, 1986, pp. 9–12
  • Peter Anselm Riedl : Werner Knaupp. Iceland . In: Werner Knaupp 2002–2008, documentation of the acrylic paintings Iceland. Westman Islands . Modern Art Publishing House, Nuremberg 2009
  • Wieland Schmied : Painting after 1945 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland , Vienna 1974, p. 191
  • Renate Wiehager: In the magnetic force field between the cosmos and the nucleus. Some thoughts on Werner Knaupp's work . In: Werner Knaupp, exhibition catalog Kunstverein Coburg, 2000, pp. 7-10

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Prestel Lexicon, Art and Artists in the 20th Century, p. 186
  2. ^ Deutscher Künstlerbund: Werner Knaupp (accessed on May 31, 2019)
  3. ↑ badischer-kunstverein.de: exhibitions / 1967: 15th exhibition of the German Association of Artists (accessed on September 16, 2015)
  4. ↑ Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche: Magic of Color - Impasto painting (color matter, color bodies, color spaces). In: kulturpur.de. Retrieved December 10, 2017 .
  5. ↑ New horizons. Artistic views into the distance. In: nmn.de. New Museum Nuremberg , accessed on December 27, 2019 .
  6. ↑ The City of Stein's 2019 Culture Prize goes to Werner Knaupp. In: stadt-stein.de. December 19, 2019, accessed December 27, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Knaupp, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg