Konrad klapheck biography of william shakespeare

German painter and graphic artist (1935–2023)

Konrad Klapheck (10 February 1935 – 30 July 2023) was a German painter and graphic artist whose style of painting combined features of Surrealism and Neorealism.

Biography

Konrad Klapheck was born in Düsseldorf on 10 February 1935 to arts historians and professors Richard and Anna Klappheck (née Strümpell, daughter of Adolf Strümpell).

From 1954 to 1956 Konrad studied painting under Bruno Goller at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.^[1] Klapheck's works of the mid-1950s are in a magic realist style that became more idiosyncratic when he painted the first of his typewriters.^[1] His subsequent paintings, often large in scale, are precise and seemingly realistic depictions of technical equipment, machinery, and everyday objects, but strangely alienated; they are "monumental, amusingly absurd and sexually suggestive".^[2]

Klapheck's subjects through the years included (in order of introduc William Shakespeare: Biography, Playwright, Poet JUK