Öl auf Hartfaser, 125,0 x 100,0 cm
Öl auf Leinwand, 90,0 x 150,0 cm
Siegfried Klotz
Klotz’s studio, his “work den” at the Academy of Fine Arts on Brühl’s Terrace in Dresden, was a place of intense creativity. The painting table resembled an installation. Piles of leftover paint, brushes, paint tubes, and rags were scattered everywhere. It was in the studio that his self-determination as a painter and as a person took shape. Here, over the course of nearly forty years, his unmistakable body of work emerged: portraits, nudes, cityscapes - vibrant, untamed and full of life.
curriculum vitae
| 1939 | born in Oberschlema |
| 1954-1957 | Apprenticeship as a decorative painter |
| 1958-1964 | Studied at the Mal- und Zeichenschule Zwickau under Carl Michel |
| 1965-1970 | Studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden (HfBK) under Rudolf Bergander and Jutta Damme |
| 1975-1978 | Assistant to Gerhard Kettner |
| 1978 | senior assistant since then |
| 1979 | Transferred to Günter Horlbeck's specialist class as senior assistant |
| 1985-1992 | Lecturer in painting |
| 1988 | Head of Basic Studies, Painting/Graphic Arts Department |
| 1992-2004 | Professor of Painting |
| 2001 | Dresden Art Prize |
| 2004 | died in Dresden |
Applying paint thickly with brush and palette knife, Siegfried Klotz constantly sought a balance between a motif-oriented realism and a form-dissolving, painterly expressionism. In doing so, he developed his portraiture into a true mastery. For his cityscapes, mostly created in the immediate vicinity of his studio on the Brühlsche Terrasse, he liked to choose an elevated vantage point, often the roof of the Academy. As the “Phantasus of Dresden,” Siegfried Klotz created magnificent panoramas in which he captured the “myth of Dresden” on canvas with dynamic brushstrokes.
Siegfried Klotz. Phantasus über Dresden, Faltblatt zur Ausstellung, Galerie Himmel, Dresden, 2014
further exhibitions
| 1974/1975 | Galerie Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/Oder: »Junge Künstler '74« (participation) |
| 1975 | Dresden / Leningrad: »1. gemeinsame Ausstellung Leningrader und Dresdner bildender Künstler« (participation) |
| 1976 | Klubhaus des Kraftwerks, Hagenwerder |
| Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden: »200 Jahre Malerei in Dresden« (participation) | |
| 1979 | Technische Universität Dresden, Toepler-Bau |
| Altes Museum, Berlin (participation) | |
| 1982 | Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden |
| 1983 | Galerie Comenius, Dresden |
| 1984 | Altes Museum, Berlin (participation) |
| 1985 | Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden (participation) |
| Städtisches Museum, Gelsenkirchen (participation) | |
| 1987 | Galerie Tim Gierig, Frankfurt/Main (participation) |
| 1988 | Biennale di Venezia (participation) |
| 1989 | Galerie Samuelis Baumgarte, Bielefeld |
| Zentrum für Kunstausstellungen der DDR, Galerie Rähnitzgasse, Dresden | |
| 1991 | Galerie Ludorff, Düsseldorf (participation) |
| 1994 | Galerie Oltmanns, Unkel bei Bonn |
| 1996 | Galerie Börse, Coswig |
| Galerie am Domhof, Zwickau | |
| Galerie BASF Schwarzheide GmbH | |
| 1998 | Kunstverein Glauchau |
| 1999 | Sächsische Landesärztekammer Dresden |
| Kunstausstellung Kühl, Dresden | |
| 2001 | Galerie Heirler, Dresden |
| 2003 | Städtische Sammlungen Freital |
| St: Petersburg: »DIALOG II. Gemeinsame Ausstellung Dresdner und St. Petersburger Künstler« (participation) | |
| 2006 | Galerie Kunstlade, Zittau |
| 2007 | Galerie Finkbein, Dresden |
| 2014 | GALERIE HIMMEL, Dresden |
| Galerie Holger John, Dresden |
