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Born and died in Düsseldorf (1935–2023), Konrad Klapheck began developing an oeuvre attentive to the ordinary objects of modernity in 1955. That year, in reaction to the abstract expressionism then in vogue, he chose to paint a sewing machine with the greatest possible precision. Typewriters, telephones, locks and domestic objects occupy a central place in his work of the 1950s. According to one source, he painted exclusively machines and domestic objects until 1997; the titles of his paintings give them symbolic significance. He completed his studies in 1958 and worked in several media, from painting to printmaking and sculpture.
The human figure appears in his work from 1997 onwards. Between 1992 and 2002, he made portraits of colleagues, friends and figures from the international art scene; a book devoted to his portrait drawings was published in Munich in 2002 under the title «Portraitzeichnungen 1992–2002». His work was the subject of a retrospective at the Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam in 1974. An exhibition devoted to him is listed at the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg in 2005; in 2008, the Musée d’Orsay presented «Correspondances Konrad Klapheck - Gustave Moreau». In 2019, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds hosted the exhibition «Venus ex machina». In 2022–2023, «Die Ehrgeizien (Les Ambitieux)», an oil painting on canvas dated 1959, was presented at the Louvre in the exhibition «Les Choses. Une histoire de la nature morte». Werner Hofmann’s publication «Konrad Klapheck, Retrospektive» was published by Prestel in 1985.
This profile brings together identity references for Konrad Klapheck and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Dobiaschofsky · Kornfeld · Lempertz
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Chalk on paper
Ohne Titel (Portrait L. Fritz Gruber)
Kreide auf Papier
Auction date : 2024-06-05
Published result : 5292 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 6000
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Acrylic on canvas
Der Boxring I
Acryl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2023-12-01
Published result : 75600 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 50000
View the lot at the auction house ↗Pencil, coloured pencil and charcoal on tracing paper
Catalogue period : 2020-09-18
Published result : 22000 CHF
Hammer price, excluding fees
Estimate : CHF 30000
View the lot at the auction house ↗Coloured pencil and charcoal on tracing paper
Catalogue period : 2020-09-18
Published result : 40000 CHF
Hammer price, excluding fees
Estimate : CHF 25000
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Memento Mori
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2018-06-15
Published result : 140000 CHF
Hammer price, excluding fees
Estimate : CHF 100000
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Oil on canvas
Gefährliche Liebschaften (Les liaisons dangereuses)
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2016-06-04
Published result : 334800 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 120000
View the lot at the auction house ↗Ink and watercolour
Konstruktion.
Tusche und Aquarell
Date to be documented
Published result : 1100 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1200
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