KLAUS STAUDT German, b. 1932
My works are metaphors of light, of space and movement.
Klaus Staudt (b. 1932 Otterndorf am Main, Germany) is one of the leading exponents of constructive and concrete art in Germany. Staudt studied medicine from 1954 – 1959 but after a visit to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, he started a course there in the studios of Ernst Geitlinger and Georg Meistermann. Together with Gerhard von Graevenitz and Jürgen Morschel, he founded the gallery nota in Munich in 1960 and became a member of the nouvelle tendance.
His oeuvre is based upon simple geometric forms encased in transparent Plexiglas which give the illusion of movement as the viewer’s eye travels, with the interplay between colour, light and shadow influencing perception. Exhibited continuously for over 40 years, in 1997 Staudt had a retrospective at Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt and his works are represented in many important public and private collections in Europe, including, the Daimler AG Collection, Stuttgart, the Museum of Concrete Art, Ingolstadt, and the Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Kunstmuseum Basel.
Klaus Staudt lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany.
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NOT A DAY WITHOUT LINE
MUSEUM RITTER, GERMANY April 4, 2022Ends 24 April 2022 A first draft, a small sketch, a jotted-down thought: the line is regarded as the origin of every artistic idea, captured...Read more -
FINAL WEEK - KLAUS STAUDT
Leopold Hoesch Museum, DÜREN March 13, 2017FINAL WEEK The Leopold Hoesch Museum along with the Hurbertus Schoeller Stiftung presents a solo exhibion by Klaus Staudt. KLAUS STAUDT HORIZONTE LEOPOLD HOESCH MUSEUM...Read more -
KLAUS STAUDT
Leopold Hoesch Museum, DÜREN November 30, 2016The Leopold Hoesch Museum along with the Hurbertus Schoeller Stiftung are presenting a solo exhibion by Klaus Staudt in Horizonte. LEOPOLD HOESCH MUSEUM DÜREN, GERMANY...Read more -
KLAUS STUADT
INTERVIEW BY STUDIO INTERNATIONAL May 26, 2015Turning against the emotive, gesticular abstraction of Tachisme and Art Informel, Staudt’s predominantly grid-like reliefs, composed of a restricted set of materials and geometric shapes,...Read more