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YVES KLEIN
kunstWERKE YVES KLEIN
Yves Klein’s ‚Le Rose du bleu & Rélief éponge bleu‘ | Christie’s | YouTube
Yves Klein, Le Rose du bleu & Rélief éponge bleu will be featured in our June 27 London Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening auction. Find out more about the paintings from Francis Outred, Christie’s Head of Post-war & Contemporary Art.
VIDEO | FILM YVES KLEIN
The Life and Work of Yves Klein told by Rotraut | Louisiana Channel | YouTube | “It was so intense, so many things happened, and I learned so much.” “He was so young and beautiful and intense, like sunshine.” Watch the absorbing story of German-French artist Rotraut and the iconic French artist Yves Klein, who shared an instant spiritual connection in the four intense years “that felt like a hundred,” where they were lovers, collaborators and soul mates – from their first meeting to Klein’s untimely death at the age of 34. The artist Rotraut Uecker was 19 when she worked as an au pair for the artist Arman (b. 1928-d.2005) in Nice. Half a year earlier, she had found herself hypnotized by a blue monochrome painting at an exhibition in Düsseldorf, and was amazed when she saw a little red monochrome in the home of Arman by the same artist – the then 29-year-old Yves Klein. When the two met, sparks immediately flew, and Rotraut feels that they became one. She was very sensitive to his work, which took her breath away, not least his use of the colour blue in his monochrome paintings: “You can disappear into it… You forget the frame, the size, you just get lost into it, into the universe. Also, the immateriality of it – what you can do with colour is so big and so powerful… It’s a big window into something that has no limit.” The couple were together for only four years, but Rotraut describes how those four years felt like a hundred: “It was so intense, so many things happened, and I learned so much.” She took on the role of Klein’s assistant, model and muse, and in the video, she also talks about how she assisted Klein, how she experienced – and sometimes participated in – his work. Shortly before his death, Yves Klein told a friend that “I will soon have the biggest studio in the whole world, creating only immaterial works.” When Klein suffered a fatal heart attack in 1962, Rotraut was seven months pregnant, and Klein had expressed that he didn’t think he would live to see his child – he was right. Klein remained in their home for four days, during which people could come and see him – the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (b.1925-d.1991) even mistook it for a performance. The thought that comforted Rotraut in the difficult time that followed was that Klein continued to live in the immaterial: “An artist is kind of living in between times. There is no time, really. The art is always timeless.” Moreover, Rotraut believes that we all carry the souls of the deceased within us: “We’re not alone, and it’s nice to think that we will continually be around.” Rotraut Klein-Moquay (b. 1938) is a German-French artist, known for her unique drawings and sculptures made out of marble, iron, aluminium, bronze, wood or plastic. She has participated in several solo and group shows since 1958 and her work is represented in numerous public collections in the U.S. and Europe, including Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Rotraut met and worked for French artist Yves Klein in 1958, subsequently marrying him in 1962 until his untimely death five months later. Rotraut is also the sister of German artist Günther Uecker. For more see: http://www.rotraut.com/en Yves Klein (b.1928-d.1962) is a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. Klein was a leading member of the French artistic movement Nouveau Réalisme founded in 1960 and a pioneer in the development of performance art, as well as a forerunner of minimal art and pop art, breaking down the boundaries between conceptual art, sculpture, painting and performance. The artist used blue as the vehicle for his quest to capture immateriality and the infinite, and the colour came to be known as International Klein Blue (1960).. For more see: http://www.yvesklein.com/en | Rotraut was interviewed by Christian Lund at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark in September 2018 | Camera Rasmus Quistgaard | Edited by Klaus Elmer | Produced by Christian Lund | Cover photo Yves Klein & Rotraut at the opening of the exhibition „Monochrome und Feuer“ | Museum Haus Lange | 1961 | Photo by Bernward Wember | Copyright Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | 2018 | All photos and works by Yves Klein in the video © Courtesy of The Estate of Yves Klein © The Estate of Yves Klein, ADAGP Paris, 2018 © Photo | All right reserved Interview with Rotraut from 1966 | „L’Actualité Artistique présente: Yves Klein“ | 1966 | 23 minutes | Produced by Yvan Butler | Interview by Marlène Belilos |
Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers – Walker Art Center – YouTube
A visionary and provocateur, Yves Klein took the European art scene by storm in a career that lasted just eight years, from 1954 to 1962. Organized by the Walker Art Center and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, in collaboration with the Yves Klein Archives in Paris, Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers is the first major retrospective of the artist’s work in the United States in nearly 30 years.
What Inspired Yves Klein? – Christie’s – YouTube
Ninety years on from the French artist’s birth we speak to Daniel Moquay, manager of Klein’s estate and the husband of his widow, Rotraut Uecker, about the artist’s relationships with spirituality, Japan, the colour blue – and judo.
BIOGRAFIE YVES KLEIN
GEBURTSJAHR | 1928 | GEBURTSORT | Nizza | TODESJAHR | 1962 | STERBEORT | Paris
1957 Yves Klein lernt in der Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf die deutschen Künstler Heinz Mack und Otto Piene kennen, die 1958 die Düsseldorfer Künstlergruppe ZERO gründeten.
1962 Heirat mit Rotraut Uecker, der Schwester von Günther Uecker
1962 Geburt des Sohnes Yves Armand
AUSBILDUNG YVES KLEIN
1952 Yves Klein lernt Japanisch an der École Nationale des Langues Orientales in Paris und reist nach Japan
MITGLIEDSCHAFTEN YVES KLEIN
1948 – 1952 Rosenkreuzer-Gemeinschaft
1960 Das Manifest Nouveau Réalisme wird im Atelier von Yves Klein unterzeichnet und damit die gleichnamige Künstlergruppe gegründet
AUSZEICHNUNGEN YVES KLEIN
SAMMLUNGEN YVES KLEIN
Sezon Museum of Modern Art | Karuizawa | Präfektur Nagano | Japan
Tate Modern | London
Fondazione Prada | Mailand
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | SFMOMA
Moderna Museet | Stockholm
AUSSTELLUNGEN YVES KLEIN
EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN AUSWAHL
1958 Galerie Iris Clert | Performance Le Vide („Die Leere“)
1961 Haus Lange | Krefeld | Deutschland
2000 Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain | Nizza | Frankreich
2005 Guggenheim-Museum Bilbao | Spanien
2006 Museum für angewandte Kunst | MAK | Wien
2006 – 2007 Centre Pompidou | Paris
2007 MUMOK | museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig | Wien
GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN AUSWAHL
1961 Vierzig Grad über Dada | Au 40° (Quarante degrés) au dessus de Dada | Galerie J von Jeannine Restany
1961 Nouveaux Réalistes | The Art of Assemblage | Museum of Modern Art | New York
1962 Internationale Ausstellung der Neuen Realisten | International Exhibition of the New Realists | Sidney Janis Gallery | New York
1964 documenta III | Kassel
1968 documenta IV | Kassel
WERKBESCHREIBUNG YVES KLEIN
SCHWERPUNKTE | MEDIEN
Malerei | Bildhauerei | Performance |
STIL
Nouveau Réalisme = Neuer Realismus | Monochrome Malerei
THEMEN | MOTIVE | WERKE
Einfarbige Werke provozieren den Betrachter und hinterfragen die damals allgemeingültige Kunstauffassung.
1946 Yves Klein erklärt den blauen, mediterranen Himmel am Strand von Nizza zu seinem „ersten unendlichen und immateriellen Gemälde“ indem er diesen symbolisch „signierte“ und damit zu seinem ersten und größten „Monochrom“ machte.
1949 Nachhaltig beeindruckt vom Blau der Fresken in der Basilika von Assisi (Italien) malt Yves Klein seine ersten monochromen Bilder
1954 Yves Klein legt mit dem Künstlerbuch „Yves Peintures“, das eine Vielzahl von monochromen Bildern beinhaltet, den Grundstein seiner Karriere.
1957 In der Mailänder Galleria Apollinaire zeigt Yves Klein erstmals unter dem Titel „Proposte monochrome, epoca blu“ (Monochromer Vorschlag, blaue Epoche) sein berühmtes Ultramarinblau, das sich zum Alleinstellungsmerkmal und zu seiner wichtigsten Marke entwickelt und das er sich dann 1960 als „I.K.B. – International Klein Blue“ patentieren lässt.
1959 Schwammbilder entstehen
1960 Performance in der rue Gentil-Bernard in Fontenay-aux-Roses | Sprung in die Leere
DEFINITION | BESCHREIBUNG | MERKMALE
Auseinandersetzung mit der meditativen Wirkungsweise monochromer Farben (Orange, Rot, Gelb, Blau), die über farbpsychologische Effekte eine emotionale Wirkung wie Trauer oder Freude oder auch ein spirituelles Gefühl entfalten soll.
Das Wesen der Farben soll dabei bestimmte Eigenschaften wie zart, heftig, vulgär oder majestätisch kennzeichnen und ausdrücken. Die Werke entfalten eine große Sogwirkung auf die Betrachter.
STICHWORTE YVES KLEIN
französischer Maler, Bildhauer und Performancekünstlern | neuartigen Farbexperimente | Begriff der Malerei wird in den 1950er Jahren völlig neu definiert | Avantgarde-Künstler | Vorläufer der Pop Art | Yves Le Monochrome
ZITATE YVES KLEIN
„Für mich besteht die Kunst des Malens darin, Freiheit zu schaffen. Die Seele empfinden ohne zu erklären, das ist es, was mich zur Monochromie geführt hat.“ | Yves Klein
„…berauscht und voll befriedigt war ich, als ich das erste Mal eine einzige Farbe malte.“ | Yves Klein
TEXT | BIBLIOGRAPHIE YVES KLEIN
LINKS YVES KLEIN
HOMEPAGE YVES KLEIN
YVES KLEIN
kunstWERKE YVES KLEIN
Yves Klein’s ‚Le Rose du bleu & Rélief éponge bleu‘ | Christie’s | YouTube
Yves Klein, Le Rose du bleu & Rélief éponge bleu will be featured in our June 27 London Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening auction. Find out more about the paintings from Francis Outred, Christie’s Head of Post-war & Contemporary Art.
VIDEO | FILM YVES KLEIN
The Life and Work of Yves Klein told by Rotraut | Louisiana Channel | YouTube | “It was so intense, so many things happened, and I learned so much.” “He was so young and beautiful and intense, like sunshine.” Watch the absorbing story of German-French artist Rotraut and the iconic French artist Yves Klein, who shared an instant spiritual connection in the four intense years “that felt like a hundred,” where they were lovers, collaborators and soul mates – from their first meeting to Klein’s untimely death at the age of 34. The artist Rotraut Uecker was 19 when she worked as an au pair for the artist Arman (b. 1928-d.2005) in Nice. Half a year earlier, she had found herself hypnotized by a blue monochrome painting at an exhibition in Düsseldorf, and was amazed when she saw a little red monochrome in the home of Arman by the same artist – the then 29-year-old Yves Klein. When the two met, sparks immediately flew, and Rotraut feels that they became one. She was very sensitive to his work, which took her breath away, not least his use of the colour blue in his monochrome paintings: “You can disappear into it… You forget the frame, the size, you just get lost into it, into the universe. Also, the immateriality of it – what you can do with colour is so big and so powerful… It’s a big window into something that has no limit.” The couple were together for only four years, but Rotraut describes how those four years felt like a hundred: “It was so intense, so many things happened, and I learned so much.” She took on the role of Klein’s assistant, model and muse, and in the video, she also talks about how she assisted Klein, how she experienced – and sometimes participated in – his work. Shortly before his death, Yves Klein told a friend that “I will soon have the biggest studio in the whole world, creating only immaterial works.” When Klein suffered a fatal heart attack in 1962, Rotraut was seven months pregnant, and Klein had expressed that he didn’t think he would live to see his child – he was right. Klein remained in their home for four days, during which people could come and see him – the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (b.1925-d.1991) even mistook it for a performance. The thought that comforted Rotraut in the difficult time that followed was that Klein continued to live in the immaterial: “An artist is kind of living in between times. There is no time, really. The art is always timeless.” Moreover, Rotraut believes that we all carry the souls of the deceased within us: “We’re not alone, and it’s nice to think that we will continually be around.” Rotraut Klein-Moquay (b. 1938) is a German-French artist, known for her unique drawings and sculptures made out of marble, iron, aluminium, bronze, wood or plastic. She has participated in several solo and group shows since 1958 and her work is represented in numerous public collections in the U.S. and Europe, including Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Rotraut met and worked for French artist Yves Klein in 1958, subsequently marrying him in 1962 until his untimely death five months later. Rotraut is also the sister of German artist Günther Uecker. For more see: http://www.rotraut.com/en Yves Klein (b.1928-d.1962) is a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. Klein was a leading member of the French artistic movement Nouveau Réalisme founded in 1960 and a pioneer in the development of performance art, as well as a forerunner of minimal art and pop art, breaking down the boundaries between conceptual art, sculpture, painting and performance. The artist used blue as the vehicle for his quest to capture immateriality and the infinite, and the colour came to be known as International Klein Blue (1960).. For more see: http://www.yvesklein.com/en | Rotraut was interviewed by Christian Lund at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark in September 2018 | Camera Rasmus Quistgaard | Edited by Klaus Elmer | Produced by Christian Lund | Cover photo Yves Klein & Rotraut at the opening of the exhibition „Monochrome und Feuer“ | Museum Haus Lange | 1961 | Photo by Bernward Wember | Copyright Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | 2018 | All photos and works by Yves Klein in the video © Courtesy of The Estate of Yves Klein © The Estate of Yves Klein, ADAGP Paris, 2018 © Photo | All right reserved Interview with Rotraut from 1966 | „L’Actualité Artistique présente: Yves Klein“ | 1966 | 23 minutes | Produced by Yvan Butler | Interview by Marlène Belilos |
Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers – Walker Art Center – YouTube
A visionary and provocateur, Yves Klein took the European art scene by storm in a career that lasted just eight years, from 1954 to 1962. Organized by the Walker Art Center and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, in collaboration with the Yves Klein Archives in Paris, Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers is the first major retrospective of the artist’s work in the United States in nearly 30 years.
What Inspired Yves Klein? – Christie’s – YouTube
Ninety years on from the French artist’s birth we speak to Daniel Moquay, manager of Klein’s estate and the husband of his widow, Rotraut Uecker, about the artist’s relationships with spirituality, Japan, the colour blue – and judo.
BIOGRAFIE YVES KLEIN
GEBURTSJAHR | 1928 | GEBURTSORT | Nizza | TODESJAHR | 1962 | STERBEORT | Paris
1957 Yves Klein lernt in der Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf die deutschen Künstler Heinz Mack und Otto Piene kennen, die 1958 die Düsseldorfer Künstlergruppe ZERO gründeten.
1962 Heirat mit Rotraut Uecker, der Schwester von Günther Uecker
1962 Geburt des Sohnes Yves Armand
AUSBILDUNG YVES KLEIN
1952 Yves Klein lernt Japanisch an der École Nationale des Langues Orientales in Paris und reist nach Japan
MITGLIEDSCHAFTEN YVES KLEIN
1948 – 1952 Rosenkreuzer-Gemeinschaft
1960 Das Manifest Nouveau Réalisme wird im Atelier von Yves Klein unterzeichnet und damit die gleichnamige Künstlergruppe gegründet
AUSZEICHNUNGEN YVES KLEIN
SAMMLUNGEN YVES KLEIN
Sezon Museum of Modern Art | Karuizawa | Präfektur Nagano | Japan
Tate Modern | London
Fondazione Prada | Mailand
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | SFMOMA
Moderna Museet | Stockholm
AUSSTELLUNGEN YVES KLEIN
EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN AUSWAHL
1958 Galerie Iris Clert | Performance Le Vide („Die Leere“)
1961 Haus Lange | Krefeld | Deutschland
2000 Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain | Nizza | Frankreich
2005 Guggenheim-Museum Bilbao | Spanien
2006 Museum für angewandte Kunst | MAK | Wien
2006 – 2007 Centre Pompidou | Paris
2007 MUMOK | museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig | Wien
GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN AUSWAHL
1961 Vierzig Grad über Dada | Au 40° (Quarante degrés) au dessus de Dada | Galerie J von Jeannine Restany
1961 Nouveaux Réalistes | The Art of Assemblage | Museum of Modern Art | New York
1962 Internationale Ausstellung der Neuen Realisten | International Exhibition of the New Realists | Sidney Janis Gallery | New York
1964 documenta III | Kassel
1968 documenta IV | Kassel
WERKBESCHREIBUNG YVES KLEIN
SCHWERPUNKTE | MEDIEN
Malerei | Bildhauerei | Performance |
STIL
Nouveau Réalisme = Neuer Realismus | Monochrome Malerei
THEMEN | MOTIVE | WERKE
Einfarbige Werke provozieren den Betrachter und hinterfragen die damals allgemeingültige Kunstauffassung.
1946 Yves Klein erklärt den blauen, mediterranen Himmel am Strand von Nizza zu seinem „ersten unendlichen und immateriellen Gemälde“ indem er diesen symbolisch „signierte“ und damit zu seinem ersten und größten „Monochrom“ machte.
1949 Nachhaltig beeindruckt vom Blau der Fresken in der Basilika von Assisi (Italien) malt Yves Klein seine ersten monochromen Bilder
1954 Yves Klein legt mit dem Künstlerbuch „Yves Peintures“, das eine Vielzahl von monochromen Bildern beinhaltet, den Grundstein seiner Karriere.
1957 In der Mailänder Galleria Apollinaire zeigt Yves Klein erstmals unter dem Titel „Proposte monochrome, epoca blu“ (Monochromer Vorschlag, blaue Epoche) sein berühmtes Ultramarinblau, das sich zum Alleinstellungsmerkmal und zu seiner wichtigsten Marke entwickelt und das er sich dann 1960 als „I.K.B. – International Klein Blue“ patentieren lässt.
1959 Schwammbilder entstehen
1960 Performance in der rue Gentil-Bernard in Fontenay-aux-Roses | Sprung in die Leere
DEFINITION | BESCHREIBUNG | MERKMALE
Auseinandersetzung mit der meditativen Wirkungsweise monochromer Farben (Orange, Rot, Gelb, Blau), die über farbpsychologische Effekte eine emotionale Wirkung wie Trauer oder Freude oder auch ein spirituelles Gefühl entfalten soll.
Das Wesen der Farben soll dabei bestimmte Eigenschaften wie zart, heftig, vulgär oder majestätisch kennzeichnen und ausdrücken. Die Werke entfalten eine große Sogwirkung auf die Betrachter.
STICHWORTE YVES KLEIN
französischer Maler, Bildhauer und Performancekünstlern | neuartigen Farbexperimente | Begriff der Malerei wird in den 1950er Jahren völlig neu definiert | Avantgarde-Künstler | Vorläufer der Pop Art | Yves Le Monochrome
ZITATE YVES KLEIN
„Für mich besteht die Kunst des Malens darin, Freiheit zu schaffen. Die Seele empfinden ohne zu erklären, das ist es, was mich zur Monochromie geführt hat.“ | Yves Klein
„…berauscht und voll befriedigt war ich, als ich das erste Mal eine einzige Farbe malte.“ | Yves Klein
TEXT | BIBLIOGRAPHIE YVES KLEIN
LINKS YVES KLEIN
HOMEPAGE YVES KLEIN
YVES KLEIN
kunstWERKE YVES KLEIN
Yves Klein’s ‚Le Rose du bleu & Rélief éponge bleu‘ | Christie’s | YouTube
Yves Klein, Le Rose du bleu & Rélief éponge bleu will be featured in our June 27 London Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening auction. Find out more about the paintings from Francis Outred, Christie’s Head of Post-war & Contemporary Art.
VIDEO | FILM YVES KLEIN
The Life and Work of Yves Klein told by Rotraut | Louisiana Channel | YouTube | “It was so intense, so many things happened, and I learned so much.” “He was so young and beautiful and intense, like sunshine.” Watch the absorbing story of German-French artist Rotraut and the iconic French artist Yves Klein, who shared an instant spiritual connection in the four intense years “that felt like a hundred,” where they were lovers, collaborators and soul mates – from their first meeting to Klein’s untimely death at the age of 34. The artist Rotraut Uecker was 19 when she worked as an au pair for the artist Arman (b. 1928-d.2005) in Nice. Half a year earlier, she had found herself hypnotized by a blue monochrome painting at an exhibition in Düsseldorf, and was amazed when she saw a little red monochrome in the home of Arman by the same artist – the then 29-year-old Yves Klein. When the two met, sparks immediately flew, and Rotraut feels that they became one. She was very sensitive to his work, which took her breath away, not least his use of the colour blue in his monochrome paintings: “You can disappear into it… You forget the frame, the size, you just get lost into it, into the universe. Also, the immateriality of it – what you can do with colour is so big and so powerful… It’s a big window into something that has no limit.” The couple were together for only four years, but Rotraut describes how those four years felt like a hundred: “It was so intense, so many things happened, and I learned so much.” She took on the role of Klein’s assistant, model and muse, and in the video, she also talks about how she assisted Klein, how she experienced – and sometimes participated in – his work. Shortly before his death, Yves Klein told a friend that “I will soon have the biggest studio in the whole world, creating only immaterial works.” When Klein suffered a fatal heart attack in 1962, Rotraut was seven months pregnant, and Klein had expressed that he didn’t think he would live to see his child – he was right. Klein remained in their home for four days, during which people could come and see him – the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (b.1925-d.1991) even mistook it for a performance. The thought that comforted Rotraut in the difficult time that followed was that Klein continued to live in the immaterial: “An artist is kind of living in between times. There is no time, really. The art is always timeless.” Moreover, Rotraut believes that we all carry the souls of the deceased within us: “We’re not alone, and it’s nice to think that we will continually be around.” Rotraut Klein-Moquay (b. 1938) is a German-French artist, known for her unique drawings and sculptures made out of marble, iron, aluminium, bronze, wood or plastic. She has participated in several solo and group shows since 1958 and her work is represented in numerous public collections in the U.S. and Europe, including Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Rotraut met and worked for French artist Yves Klein in 1958, subsequently marrying him in 1962 until his untimely death five months later. Rotraut is also the sister of German artist Günther Uecker. For more see: http://www.rotraut.com/en Yves Klein (b.1928-d.1962) is a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. Klein was a leading member of the French artistic movement Nouveau Réalisme founded in 1960 and a pioneer in the development of performance art, as well as a forerunner of minimal art and pop art, breaking down the boundaries between conceptual art, sculpture, painting and performance. The artist used blue as the vehicle for his quest to capture immateriality and the infinite, and the colour came to be known as International Klein Blue (1960).. For more see: http://www.yvesklein.com/en | Rotraut was interviewed by Christian Lund at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark in September 2018 | Camera Rasmus Quistgaard | Edited by Klaus Elmer | Produced by Christian Lund | Cover photo Yves Klein & Rotraut at the opening of the exhibition „Monochrome und Feuer“ | Museum Haus Lange | 1961 | Photo by Bernward Wember | Copyright Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | 2018 | All photos and works by Yves Klein in the video © Courtesy of The Estate of Yves Klein © The Estate of Yves Klein, ADAGP Paris, 2018 © Photo | All right reserved Interview with Rotraut from 1966 | „L’Actualité Artistique présente: Yves Klein“ | 1966 | 23 minutes | Produced by Yvan Butler | Interview by Marlène Belilos |
Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers – Walker Art Center – YouTube
A visionary and provocateur, Yves Klein took the European art scene by storm in a career that lasted just eight years, from 1954 to 1962. Organized by the Walker Art Center and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, in collaboration with the Yves Klein Archives in Paris, Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers is the first major retrospective of the artist’s work in the United States in nearly 30 years.
What Inspired Yves Klein? – Christie’s – YouTube
Ninety years on from the French artist’s birth we speak to Daniel Moquay, manager of Klein’s estate and the husband of his widow, Rotraut Uecker, about the artist’s relationships with spirituality, Japan, the colour blue – and judo.
BIOGRAFIE YVES KLEIN
GEBURTSJAHR | 1928 | GEBURTSORT | Nizza | TODESJAHR | 1962 | STERBEORT | Paris
1957 Yves Klein lernt in der Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf die deutschen Künstler Heinz Mack und Otto Piene kennen, die 1958 die Düsseldorfer Künstlergruppe ZERO gründeten.
1962 Heirat mit Rotraut Uecker, der Schwester von Günther Uecker
1962 Geburt des Sohnes Yves Armand
AUSBILDUNG YVES KLEIN
1952 Yves Klein lernt Japanisch an der École Nationale des Langues Orientales in Paris und reist nach Japan
MITGLIEDSCHAFTEN YVES KLEIN
1948 – 1952 Rosenkreuzer-Gemeinschaft
1960 Das Manifest Nouveau Réalisme wird im Atelier von Yves Klein unterzeichnet und damit die gleichnamige Künstlergruppe gegründet
AUSZEICHNUNGEN YVES KLEIN
SAMMLUNGEN YVES KLEIN
Sezon Museum of Modern Art | Karuizawa | Präfektur Nagano | Japan
Tate Modern | London
Fondazione Prada | Mailand
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | SFMOMA
Moderna Museet | Stockholm
AUSSTELLUNGEN YVES KLEIN
EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN AUSWAHL
1958 Galerie Iris Clert | Performance Le Vide („Die Leere“)
1961 Haus Lange | Krefeld | Deutschland
2000 Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain | Nizza | Frankreich
2005 Guggenheim-Museum Bilbao | Spanien
2006 Museum für angewandte Kunst | MAK | Wien
2006 – 2007 Centre Pompidou | Paris
2007 MUMOK | museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig | Wien
GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN AUSWAHL
1961 Vierzig Grad über Dada | Au 40° (Quarante degrés) au dessus de Dada | Galerie J von Jeannine Restany
1961 Nouveaux Réalistes | The Art of Assemblage | Museum of Modern Art | New York
1962 Internationale Ausstellung der Neuen Realisten | International Exhibition of the New Realists | Sidney Janis Gallery | New York
1964 documenta III | Kassel
1968 documenta IV | Kassel
WERKBESCHREIBUNG YVES KLEIN
SCHWERPUNKTE | MEDIEN
Malerei | Bildhauerei | Performance |
STIL
Nouveau Réalisme = Neuer Realismus | Monochrome Malerei
THEMEN | MOTIVE | WERKE
Einfarbige Werke provozieren den Betrachter und hinterfragen die damals allgemeingültige Kunstauffassung.
1946 Yves Klein erklärt den blauen, mediterranen Himmel am Strand von Nizza zu seinem „ersten unendlichen und immateriellen Gemälde“ indem er diesen symbolisch „signierte“ und damit zu seinem ersten und größten „Monochrom“ machte.
1949 Nachhaltig beeindruckt vom Blau der Fresken in der Basilika von Assisi (Italien) malt Yves Klein seine ersten monochromen Bilder
1954 Yves Klein legt mit dem Künstlerbuch „Yves Peintures“, das eine Vielzahl von monochromen Bildern beinhaltet, den Grundstein seiner Karriere.
1957 In der Mailänder Galleria Apollinaire zeigt Yves Klein erstmals unter dem Titel „Proposte monochrome, epoca blu“ (Monochromer Vorschlag, blaue Epoche) sein berühmtes Ultramarinblau, das sich zum Alleinstellungsmerkmal und zu seiner wichtigsten Marke entwickelt und das er sich dann 1960 als „I.K.B. – International Klein Blue“ patentieren lässt.
1959 Schwammbilder entstehen
1960 Performance in der rue Gentil-Bernard in Fontenay-aux-Roses | Sprung in die Leere
DEFINITION | BESCHREIBUNG | MERKMALE
Auseinandersetzung mit der meditativen Wirkungsweise monochromer Farben (Orange, Rot, Gelb, Blau), die über farbpsychologische Effekte eine emotionale Wirkung wie Trauer oder Freude oder auch ein spirituelles Gefühl entfalten soll.
Das Wesen der Farben soll dabei bestimmte Eigenschaften wie zart, heftig, vulgär oder majestätisch kennzeichnen und ausdrücken. Die Werke entfalten eine große Sogwirkung auf die Betrachter.
STICHWORTE YVES KLEIN
französischer Maler, Bildhauer und Performancekünstlern | neuartigen Farbexperimente | Begriff der Malerei wird in den 1950er Jahren völlig neu definiert | Avantgarde-Künstler | Vorläufer der Pop Art | Yves Le Monochrome
ZITATE YVES KLEIN
„Für mich besteht die Kunst des Malens darin, Freiheit zu schaffen. Die Seele empfinden ohne zu erklären, das ist es, was mich zur Monochromie geführt hat.“ | Yves Klein
„…berauscht und voll befriedigt war ich, als ich das erste Mal eine einzige Farbe malte.“ | Yves Klein
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