Konrad Klapheck

Menschen und Maschinen

The things, the machines that Konrad Klapheck (born in 1935) paints are not utilitarian devices; they have lost any practical use, are non-functional and have been frozen in their painterly brilliance into enigmatic beings that appear familiar, and yet remain absent and strange. “Using my machine pictures, I was able, without having to look, to rediscover the past, and to deal with the problems of living in the present. Underneath every successful picture lay another, one that could just be ascertained, that gave meaning to that which occurred on the surface …” At the end of the 1990s, the human form entered the work of Klapheck. These dreamy-nightmares vitalised his world of artefacts, the surreal illustration “lives” on in his new pictures: the persons displayed are again frozen in their cold painterly perfection into enigmatic beings.
Konrad Klapheck
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Konrad Klapheck

May 2006

ISBN 978-3-938025-82-6

31,50 × 22,50 cm

160 pages

66 colored and 37 b/w illustrations

Hardcover linen-bound, bound, with dust jacket, without Schuber

Languages: German

Editor
Ferdinand Ulrich und Hans-Jürgen Schwalm, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen authors Fabrice Hergott, Konrad Klapheck, Hans-Jürgen Schwalm, and Ferdinand Ulrich

Events
The illustrated book was published on the occasion of the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen 2006, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen.