Robert Klippel

Robert Klippel ( born June 19, 1920 in Sydney, † June 19, 2001 in Sydney) was an Australian sculptor and draftsman.

Life and work

Robert Klippel already knew at the age of six years that he wants to become a model builder. In 1939 he took his service to the Royal Australian Navy and built ship and aircraft models that were used for the Navy at the Gunnery Instruction Education Centre.

After the Second World War, he studied traditional sculpture in Sydney at the East Sydney Technical College and in London at the Slade School of Fine Art, he was like many other Australian artists such as Leonard French, Grahame King Inge Neufeld at The Abbey Arts Centre and Museum in New Barnet, north London.

In 1947 he went to London and in 1948 he had his first exhibition at the London Gallery in London. He went to Paris, where many Surrealist artists were who worked there. His style changed after 1949 from the figurative to abstract art. He was by no means a part of a particular art movement, his work was surreal - with wood as a material - and constructivist object art and action art. He used material from the scrap yard, also industrial waste, and other parts. He came when he looked at an exhibition of the work of David Smith at the Museum of Modern Art in contact with Abstract Expressionism.

On his return to Sydney he never left Australia and lived and worked in the Birchgrove area in Sydney, not far from a shipyard, where he gathered his material for his works. From 1975 to 1979, Klippel lecturer at the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, now the Arts Faculty of the University of New South Wales. Klippel made ​​in his creative sculptures about 1300 and about 5000 drawings.

Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney in 2002, presented a comprehensive retrospective entitled A Tribute Exhibition, 2008, the exhibition Opus followed in 2008 at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.

Work (selection)

  • Construction No. 123 (1962), Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney
  • No. 129 (1962), Sculpture Park Heide Museum of Modern Art
  • Opus 250 (No. 250 metal construction ) - a work of metal and as objet trouvé of 1970, National Gallery of Australia in Canberra
  • Group of eight bronzes (Eng. group of eight bronzes ) ( 1982) in front of the sculpture park of the National Gallery of Art
  • No. 129 Sentinel (1987 ), La Trobe University Sculpture Park
  • Opus 300 (1972-1974), Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • Opus 655 (1988), Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • Number 751, a bronze sculpture in the sculpture garden of the National Gallery of Art in Canberra
  • Painted Wood Sculptures ( German painted wooden sculptures) (1989 ) - 79 wooden sculptures, some cast in bronze, Niagara Gallery
  • Installation ( 1995) - 87 small tin sculptures, Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • No. 951 Diorama ( 1968-2001 ) - construction of steel and bronze, Art Gallery of New South Wales
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