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Non-figurative, dynamic, lyrical \u2013 these words describe the work of the early abstract painter Alfons Kl\u00fchspies. The W\u00fcrzburg artist\u2019s estate has been managed by his daughter since his death in Wiesbaden in 1975. When the decision was made to build the Reinhard Ernst Museum several years ago and that an exhibition centre exclusively for abstract art will be located in Wiesbaden, the artist\u2019s daughter approached the Reinhard & Sonja Ernst Foundation. She drew the sponsors\u2019 attention to the painter\u2019s extensive work.<\/p>\n

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Finally, in\u00a0March 2021, a donation was made to the foundation. One of the main works by\u00a0Alfons\u00a0Kl\u00fchspies from his strong creative phase in the 1950s \u2013 his\u00a0Composition\u00a0from 1958 \u2013 is now part of\u00a0the Reinhard Ernst Collection. The painting aroused a lot of attention in the\u00a0artist\u2019s exhibitions and\u00a0was published, among other things, as an art\u00a0supplement in the 1991 yearbook of the Federal\u00a0Statistical Office with a print run\u00a0of 18,000.<\/p>\n

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Alfons Kl\u00fchspies, born and raised in Birkenfeld near W\u00fcrzburg in 1899, studied at Frankfurt\u2019s St\u00e4delschule from 1920 where he received training in classical painting. But even at this time, the young artist pursued a non-representational, abstract style based on his own motivation. This was noteworthy to the extent that non-representational painting only arrived in Germany in 1910 with Wassily Kandinsky and later Alexej von Jawlensky \u2013 to mention only two prominent pioneers of abstraction. Training at the universities was largely of a traditional nature. Even when the Weimar Bauhaus was established, free teaching of the arts was by no means generally recognised.<\/p>\n

After\u00a0completing his studies, Kl\u00fchspies spent a year in the art metropolis of Paris and\u00a0then moved to\u00a0Berlin. He continued to work productively in his studio\u00a0apartment, even though historical events at\u00a0the time restrained his activities\u00a0and robbed him of his freedom to develop. In 1944 his studio was\u00a0completely\u00a0destroyed in an air raid. Almost all the artist\u2019s early work fell victim to the\u00a0flames.\u00a0Kl\u00fchspies was detained as a prisoner of war until 1946.<\/p>\n

On his\u00a0return to his place of birth, he built a new existence for himself. Since then,\u00a0Kl\u00fchspies\u00a0worked as a freelance painter in the Main-Franconia region. Even\u00a0though he was usually\u00a0considered something of an artistic loner and maintained\u00a0no fixed connection with the contemporary\u00a0art scene, he did exchange ideas with\u00a0several like-minded people. In the 1960s, for example, he\u00a0established contact\u00a0with Otto Ritschl, who was in Paris at the same time in the 1920s and who\u00a0Kl\u00fchspies finally got to know personally.<\/p>\n

Always\u00a0connected to abstraction, Kl\u00fchspies became receptive to experiments in his own\u00a0style and\u00a0looked for various methods of applying paint and colour schemes. His\u00a0work includes a connection\u00a0with the dynamic, musical and even lyrical. The\u00a0meandering shapes of his pictures produce force\u00a0fields for Kl\u00fchspies that\u00a0permanently \u201cdetect the vibration of a universal harmony\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0Reinhard & Sonja Ernst Foundation would like to thank the artist\u2019s estate\u00a0administrator for the\u00a0fact that another painting by an early advocate of\u00a0abstraction has found its way into the art\u00a0collection of the Reinhard Ernst Museum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Non-figurative, dynamic, lyrical \u2013 these words describe the work of the early abstract painter Alfons Kl\u00fchspies. The W\u00fcrzburg artist\u2019s estate has been managed by his daughter since his death in Wiesbaden in 1975. 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