Klaus Staeck
Klaus Staeck ( born February 28, 1938 in Pulsnitz ) is a German graphic designer, caricaturist and lawyer. In April 2006 he was elected president of the Academy of Arts in Berlin (2009 and 2012 re-election for a three -year term ).
Life
Youth and Education
Klaus Staeck grew, like his brother Rolf born in 1943, in the industrial city of Bitterfeld. It was here that the popular uprising of 17 June 1953. Immediately after graduation in 1956 he moved to Heidelberg and repeated 1957 Abitur at the Bunsen -Gymnasium, as in the Federal Republic, the GDR school leaving certificates were not recognized. He suffered at school very under injustice and manipulation by the communist ideology. He then worked as construction laborers. From 1957 to 1962 studied Staeck Law in Heidelberg, Hamburg and Berlin, where he passed his First State Exam. The subsequent legal training ( Trainee ), he graduated with a second state exam.
Full-time and professional activities
In 1965 Staeck producers Publisher "Edition tangent " (now "Edition Staeck "), which since the late 1960s also support objects (multiple ) issues from internationally recognized artists. Thus, by Joseph Beuys, with whom he worked since 1968, Panamarenko, Dieter Roth, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Daniel Spoerri, and many others. 1968 Staeck was admitted to the bar in Heidelberg and Mannheim.
Since the early 1970s, Klaus Staeck has worked as a graphic artist in the field of political satire in the tradition of John Heartfield. His main work so far encompasses approximately 300 posters, most of which consist of photomontages, which he provides with his own ironic sayings. His satirical posters and commercially marketed by him postcards spending often directed against contents of the policy of the CDU / CSU. His satire provoked repeatedly politician in conservative circles. This led frequently to Eklats and legal disputes, which came to meet him, however, quite, as this is not furthered his reputation immaterial.
At the general election in 1972 his ironic political poster German worker was! The SPD wants to publish you your villas take in Ticino. The poster reached a print run of 75 000 copies and is the best known of his motives. In particular, in the 1970s and 1980s, his graphics were popular, so that he could live off the proceeds of the postcard sales. Despite his membership in the SPD, he is keen to have never to have been party graphic designer and made no commissioned work for the SPD.
In 1971, he co-authored with Beuys and Heerich a call against the exclusivity of the Cologne art market. In the same year, he led his first poster campaign to Dürer in Nuremberg year with his poster welfare case. He used the poster Albrecht Dürer's charcoal drawing image of the Virgin from 1514, and combined it with the question: Would you let this woman a room?
Klaus Staeck was a participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Department of Parallel visual worlds: political propaganda. ( He was 7 (1982) and the Documenta 8 in 1987 also represented in the Documenta 6 (1977 ), Documenta as an artist. ) By 2012 Staeck could present some 3,000 individual exhibitions at home and abroad.
On March 30, 1976, the CDU politician Philipp Jenninger was rent in the Parliamentary Association in Bonn there suspended in an exhibition poster Staeck with the inscription "For Chile, we know precisely what the CDU holds of democracy." With the poster Staeck played on a statement Bruno stern to: After the coup, the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1973, Heck was the states in a sports stadium in Santiago de Chile, which served as a concentration camp and torture chamber, described with the sentence: "Life the stadium is quite pleasant in sunny weather. " the action of the deputies to Jenninger was described by the media as the Bonn iconoclasm. The exhibition was closed following a decision by the Board of the Parliamentary Association on the same evening, Jenninger was sentenced in June 1976, however, to pay restitution of $ 10 to Staeck.
In 1971 Staeck was a guest lecturer at the University of Kassel, and in 1986 at the Art Academy Dusseldorf.
On 29 April 2006 Staeck was elected at the general meeting of the Berlin Academy of Arts unexpectedly becoming its President. He succeeds the retired Swiss writer Adolf Muschg. In the same year he taught himself as a critic of Arno Breker exhibition in Schwerin this week to organize at the same time an exhibition of Johannes Heesters in Berlin, which the Academy had given his estate.
9 May 2009 Staeck was re-elected at the Spring Meeting of the Academy. As part of the nomination, he inaugurated an " energetic mixing " the artist " in the coming socio-political conflicts ." In this context Staeck also stressed that he was now accepted into the ranks of the Union, especially by the Minister of Culture Bernd Neumann ( CDU).
Staeck regularly writes a column in the Frankfurter Rundschau.
He is a member of the PEN center of Germany.
Political offices and functions
Since April 1, 1960 Staeck is a member of the SPD. 1969 Staeck ran unsuccessfully for the Heidelberg City Council and was a member of the county Board of the SPD and the Young Socialists.
In 1973, he was Chairman of the Association Free International University (FIU ) and founded the initiative action for more democracy. In 1983 he became a member of the Advisory Board of the Humanist Union. He is also a member of the Culture Division of the State of Saxony- Anhalt since 2004.
Awards
Posters (selection)
- Would you this woman a room for rent? , 1971
- German workers! The SPD wants to take you your villas in Ticino, 1972