About the Artist Konrad Klapheck

Typewriters, sewing machines, telephones, irons: Konrad Klapheck (1935–2023) turned everyday objects into enigmatic "machine pictures," estranging them and endowing them with human traits. While many of his contemporaries worked abstractly, the Düsseldorf-born artist pursued a precise, representational painting whose style drew on Surrealism, Neorealism and, in part, Pop Art. From 1954 to 1958 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Bruno Goller, and later taught there himself. Klapheck is counted among the major figures of the German post-war avant-garde.