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Konrad Klapheck Autograph: Signed Artist Postcard: Drawingfor the painting "In the Age of Violence" 1994.
The autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
4 x 6 inches. Very fine condition.
Born in 1935 in Duesseldorf, studies painting between 1954-58 at the Duesseldorf Art Academy. His teacher there was Bruno Goller. Studying Surrealism early on, Klapheck had visited Max Ernst by 1954. He spent five months in Paris in 1956-57 and from 1961 maintained close ties with the Paris Surrealists around André Breton.
In 1955, when Informel was at its height in Germany, Klapheck painted 'Schreibmaschine' ['Typewriter'], in which a typewriter is depicted with exaggerated realism against a simple background.
In the years that followed, Klapheck continued to paint in the Superrealist manner. In 1979 Klapheck became a professor at the Duesseldorf Art Academy, where he still teaches. Widely acclaimed, Klapheck's work has been shown at retrospectives and acquired by important museums. In 1964 he took part in Documenta 3 in Kassel.
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