KLAPHECK, KONRAD
Düsseldorf 1935 - 2023

Title: "Die zahlreiche Familie".
Date: 1961.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 75,5 x 80cm.
Notation: Signed verso centre: Klapheck. Titled verso upper centre on stretcher: Die zahlreiche Familie. Next to it is a label by the artist with handwritten work details.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.


The work is listed in the artist's handwritten catalogue raisonné (1990) under number 74.

An original handwritten letter from Konrad Klapheck to the current owner dated 1st December 1990 is available for the work.

Provenance:
- Galerie Schwarz, Milan 1963
- Claude Bernard Gallery, Paris
- Sothebys London, auction 4th April 1974
- Löwenstein Collection, London
- Gallery Elke Dröscher, Hamburg
- Mrs Budenhölzer, Heidelberg
- Private collection Germany (1990)

Exhibitions:
- Galleria Schwarz, Milan 1963 (label, here titled: La Familie Nombreuse)
- Kestner Society, Hanover 1966
- Kunst und Museum Association Wuppertal, 1967, cat. no. 74
- Institute for Modern Art, Nuremberg 1970, cat. no. 74
- Kunsthalle Hamburg, 1985

Literature:
- Exhib. cat. Galleria Schwarz, Milan 1963, no p.
- Exhib. cat. Kestner Gesellschaft, catalogue 2 exhibition year 1966/67 Konrad Klapheck, Hanover 1966, cat. No. 74
- Exhib. cat. Kunst und Museumsverein Wuppertal, 1967, cat. No. 74
- Exhib. cat. Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg 1970, Cologne 1970, cat. No. 74

- Significant early work that is unique in Klapheck's oeuvre with its proximity to abstraction
- Radical setting through a strictly simplified pictorial composition
- Painting of high topicality and explosiveness.