Konrad Klapheck
Meine Gegenstände, 1971
Offsetlithografie auf Karton Edition: 64/150 Print 32 × 26 cm
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The offset lithograph "Meine Gegenstände" (My Objects) gathers the entire motif repertoire of Konrad Klapheck: arranged in a grid-like layout, his recurring everyday technical objects appear – typewriter, water tap, telephone, flat iron, key and lock, bells, and other apparatuses. Like a personal inventory, the sheet presents those objects that the artist elevated into monumental, psychologically charged pictorial icons. With a fine, precise line, the entire visual world of one of the most original artists of our time is revealed.
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.
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