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Artist Statement:
I photograph "sea-worn
stories" in the weathered and
worn paint on the sides of
ships at sea. With my camera
I capture distressed painted
steel, thus presenting an
intimate look at what most
people not only never see, but
generally are not even aware
of. With that I reveal ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Galeria Arte Consult, Panama
City, Republic of Panama, 8
works, October 2007 - current
Silkart Gallery, Walnut Creek,
California, Solo Exhibition,
25 works, December 2006 - Jan
2007
Inter-Art Museum, (Juried
Group), 3 works, Tokyo, Japan,
November 2006 - January 2007
RiverSea Gallery, Astoria,
Oregon, 20 works, Group Show,
October 2006
Hapag ...
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Artist Galleries:
Pacific Center for
Photographic Arts, P.O. Box
8508, Emeryville, CA
94662-8508, Phone (510)
428-9169
Andreas Stucken, Stucken Art
Consulting, Kunstberatung und
Projekte, Theodor-Heuss-Str. 9
D-86551 Aichach, Fon: +49
(0)8251 / 871630, Fax: +49
(0)8251 / 871638,
www.stucken.com
Period Gallery, 8001 Leo Lane,
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Artist Reviews:
3/25/2004
THE ART OF SHIP'S SIDES:
An Essay by Val Stokes, Long
Island, NY
Every ship’s hull tells a
story – a painted one, that
reveals a narrative in the
abstract. Seaman and artist
Klaus Lange focuses his camera
on this wonderful narrative.
The ship’s sea...
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Collections:
TUI, corporate offices,
Hannover, Germany
Germanischer Lloyd, Hamburg
Germany
Uebersee Museum, Bremen,
Germany
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Klaus Lange Biography:
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Age
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66
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
2
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| Religion |
not yet |
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| Education |
Self Taught |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Watching the sun set from a solitary camp beside a mountain lake, where my kayak is pulled up on the pebbled shore, and the teakettle hums on the smokeless fire pit, and there is absolutely nothing to be creative about. |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Printmaking Giclee
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Abstract Expressionism - (1940 - 1955)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Georgia Lange
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Glass Houses
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Both, the Impressionsts for their visual interpretation of light, and the Abstract Expressionist for breaking away from the norm. Also, Claude Monet for giving me comfort while viewing his art, Joseph Albers for his color squares, Emil Nolde for his making me homesick, Mark Rothko for making me see his art on the sides of ships, and most of all the mermaid muses with their Neptunian inspiration. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
Why did I become an artist? I always was an artist. More to the point, why did I suppress becoming an artist until late in life? |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Giving artistic form to the ambivalent area between photography and painting — that is the art of Klaus Lange.
Born 1942 in Bremen, a major seaport in Northern Germany, art and adventure came hand in hand for Klaus, beginning with childhood maritime drawings and games of deciphering foreign names of ships, thus awaking a longing to actually see those faraway ports. He left home as early as possible, at age 19, and roamed around the world by way of his chosen hotel and restaurant career. Along the way he absorbed options of art and culture wherever he lived, whether in Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, England or by way of Swedish ships on which he circumnavigated the world several times. Not until he reached the shores of Amerika, 'the land of unlimited possibilities', did he fully unfold his potential. When California became his country of adoption, he began the tumultuous life of an immigrant, which included the simultaneous raising of family and business, the managing of life's upheavals and discovering art as the one true voice.
His artistic influences were most pronounced through the Impressionists of Paris and the Abstract Expressionists of New York. Working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a few years allowed Lange to visit the galleries of his heros as often as he liked, sometimes several times a day. But, years later, and to his utter amazement, finding resemblances of the master's works in the deteriorating paint and rust on the sides of ships at sea, set him on a path of discovery that has not ceased since. With a twinkle he claims it to be graffiti work of mermaids, and so far nobody has disputed him on that point. Meanwhile he keeps finding new pictures with his camera. The platform from where he finds his motives is a San Francisco pilot boat on the open sea or sometimes a tug boat in the Panama Canal.
Klaus Lange's distinctive photography makes the range between documentary description and artistic-technical production quite clear by staying aesthetically autonomous. Although his artistic vision is carried out with the technical possibilities of picture editing and print making, his photography is conscientiously detached from reality. He puts forth a new type of painting meta-narrative, the story of nature diminishing materiality, all told through the abstract.
In recent years Klaus Lange has exhibited in galleries from New York to Panama and from Hamburg to Tokyo. A major exhibition with 120 of his works came in 2005 at the Bremen Übersee Museum while at the same time a book about his work, titled 'Bordwände', was published.
When viewing his portfolio, a client of Far East origin exclaimed that she once owned a kimono very similar in design to one of his works (titled: Rivulets). That comment set the stage for the production of a selection of Lange's works as silk chiffon accessories and set in motion a whole new line of thinking along the idea of Art To Couture.
Today Klaus Lange offers not only a new way to see abstract painting, and simultaneously, a new way to see photography, he also smiles and says, 'Why just look at it? Wear it.' |
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