Biographical Notes
1932
Born in Otterndorf/Niederelbe
1954-1959
Studies medicine in Marburg an der Lahn and Munich
Visits documenta 2
1959
Discontinues medicine studies
1959-1963
Studies painting under Ernst Geitlinger at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
1960
Opens »Galerie Nota« in Munich together with the initiator Gerhard von Graevenitz and Jürgen Morschell
1961
Meets Josef Albers in Ulm
Field trip to Spain
1963-1967
Master student and assistant to Ernst Geitlinger and Georg Meistermann
1963
Member of »New Tendencies«
Visits the Venice Biennale
Field trips to Paris and Spain
1974-1995
Professorship at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main
1974-1985
Conceptual design and assembly of Cuxhaven County’s concrete art collection and consulting on its presentation
1986-1997
Consulting on the expansion of Cuxhaven County’s concrete art collection
1992
Honorary Award of the 5th International Triennale of Drawing, Wrocław, Poland
2003
Artist in Residence, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany/Connecticut
2005
Visits the Donald Judd Foundation, Marfa/Texas
2006/2009
Visiting researcher, International Artists’ House Villa Concordia in Bamberg
2009
International Artists Meeting, Galeria 72, Muzeum Chełmskie, Chełm, Poland
2015
Film, Studio International, Klaus Staudt.
Interview during the exhibition »Light and Transcendence«, Mayor Gallery, London
Film, Museum für Konkrete Kunst und Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt:
»Klaus Staudt in conversation with curator Anna Wondrak«
(Both films can be viewed on the website.
See »About Klaus Staudt«-section // »Video/Audio«)
Artistic development
1960
White serial wood reliefs
1964
Spatial shadow reliefs
Bi-planar reliefs
1967
Suspended bi-level reliefs
1968-1972
Transparent colour objects
1969
First multiples
seit 1970
Constructive drawings
1973
Objects with semitransparent white Plexiglas
seit 1977
Free-standing sculptures (multi-planar reliefs)
1981
Shadow reliefs (shadow grids)
1984
First wood sculpture
1987
Translucent white-colour objects
First steel sculpture
1992
Translucent bi-level reliefs
1996
Orthogonal and diagonal structured reliefs
2001
Polygonal objects
2004
Objects with bipolar net structures
2009
Single plane, semitransparent reliefs
2014
Begins working with horizontal structures
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