Klaus Drechsler
Vita brevis

04. April 2020 — 13. June 2020

Vita brevis, ars longa. Life is short, art is long. Klaus Drechsler looks back on a large and enduring body of work, always with an eye on the fragile beauty and transience of life. On the occasion of his 80th birthday, we are exhibiting paintings and sculptures from thirty years of creative work.

  • Klaus Drechsler – „Atelierstillleben“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Herbststillleben mit schwarzer Birne“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Hyazinthen (rosa)“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Abstelltisch mit Hummer“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Eiertiegel“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Weiblicher Torso I“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Weiblicher Torso II (Amazone)“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Behinderter“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Der kleine Philosoph“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Leidender II“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Stillleben mit halber Melone“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Vanitasstillleben mit Birne“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Mädchenbüste“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Äpfel, Birnen und Kürbisstück“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Vanitasstillleben mit Maske“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Spielkarten mit Granatapfel“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Allegorie der Vergänglichkeit“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Tod und Mädchen“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Die Eitelkeit“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Manfred II“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Kürbisstück (Huldigung an PMB)“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Herbstblatt (Ochsenzunge)“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Maske mit Meeresschnecken“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Sebastian“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Raubfisch“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Drei Paprikaschoten“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Herbststillleben mit grünem Kürbis“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Blaue und violette Hortensie“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Liegende Schwangere“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Frau mit gelber Mütze und Ohrring“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Große Schwangere“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Waldfunde mit Wildschweinschädel“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Hommage für Jens Hackel“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Zwei verdorbene Quitten auf Papier“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Keifende Alte“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Birnenstillleben mit weißem Holzhund“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Spinat und Spiegelei“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Stillleben mit rotem Meeresfisch I“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Abstelltisch (mit Gabel, Flasche, Weißbrot und Eiertiegel)“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Der Sieger“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Peperoni, Knoblauch und Zwiebel“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Pferde nach dem Schneeschauer“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Orpheus in der Unterwelt“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Winternacht am Joseph-Herrmann-Denkmal“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Der Alte unter der Mondsichel“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Breitmaulwendehals“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Kleine Schwangere“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Inderin“
  • Klaus Drechsler – „Greisin“
Klaus Drechsler

Klaus Drechsler

Klaus Drechsler looks back on a large and enduring body of work, always with an eye on the fragile beauty and transience of life. His paintings, graphic works and sculptures grew steadily over five decades without any internal breaks, independent yet in constant friction with art history and his time.

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Katalog

Catalogue

Böhlitz, Michael / Himmel, Anja (Hrsg.). – „Klaus Drechsler. Vita brevis”.

2020. Galerie Himmel (Eigenverlag), Dresden. – Ausstellungskatalog, von Klaus Drechsler. – 21 x 21 cm (Format).

8°, Broschur, 138 S., 56 Werk-Abb., 2 fotogr. Portraits. - Katalog zur Jubiläumsausstellung anlässlich des 80. Geburtstages ″Klaus Drechsler - Vita brevis″ in der Galerie Himmel in Dresden, 22.5.-18.7.2020. - Geleitwort von Anja Himmel und Michael Böhlitz, Texte von Frank Oehmichen, Anke Fröhlich-Schauseil und Jördis Lademann. Ausführlicher Katalogteil mit wesentlichen Arbeiten des Künstlers. - Erstausgabe, neu.

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Introduction

Klaus Drechsler was born into a family of farm labourers who had to leave their home in Silesia after the end of the war. The experiences of passing German and Soviet troops, some of whom were completely brutalised, overshadowed Drechsler's early years. These sometimes traumatic experiences left him with a vulnerability, sensitivity and acute hearing that and became a prerequisite for his artistic work. Klaus Drechsler spent his childhood and youth in Lusatia. Later, he settled in the idyllic Wachwitzgrund on the outskirts of Dresden. It was in this environment that he created his distinctive body of work. Soft tones resonate in the paintings. It is no coincidence that table still lifes are omnipresent here. The pivotal point is vanitas, the cycle of becoming and passing away, the relationship between beauty and transience. The basic motifs, such as skulls, fruit or books, are unspectacular and offer suitable metaphors for transience. Muted, gently glowing colours determine the precious colour scheme. Colourful yet muted, with gentle transitions from light and shadow, a quiet tone is created that testifies to a deep respect for the subject of the painting. Since the 1990s, he has also been working in sculpture, in which, as in his drawings, he grapples with the task of depicting human and animal figures. Literary, character portraits, human and all-too-human traits – all of these find an exploratory and at the same time revealing representation, even verging on caricature and crude-drastic tones. His sculptures are the creations of a brilliant designer who wants his figures to tell a story above all else. Light and shadow catch on the rough, rugged surface of the bronze outer skin. The vibrating surfaces are given an almost painterly patina. Here, too, the painter in the sculptor is revealed. All of Klaus Drechsler's creations, whether in painting or sculpture, possess a certain gentleness, a fundamental human chord, revealing his humility towards the object, his love of humanity and his sacred wonder at the nature of the world.