277 - Klaus Langkafel, Still Life with Pen and Polaroid Photograph, photorealistic oil painting, in a box frame

Klaus Langkafel, Still Life with Pen and Polaroid Photograph, photorealistic oil painting, in a box frame Klaus Langkafel, born 1941 in Oberhausen - 2007 Karlsruhe, German artist working in Realism & Photorealism, a pupil of Joseph Beuys, shown here: Still Life with a Pen and a Polaroid Photograph pinned to a wall with a coffee stain on the lower edge, small-format, photorealistic oil on wood in a box frame, 30 x 25 cm, signed and dated on the reverse 04About the artist: Klaus Langkafel studied at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts under Walter Herzger and at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts under Joseph Beuys. Together with Helmut Goettl, he belonged to the artist groups “Karlsruher Realisten” and “die Unzeitgemäßen”, “whose 1984 manifesto was a rejection of the ‘perfection of faster, better, 'More Beautiful' of technologised modernity and a commitment to humanity, 'its image and its actions', to 'nature as landscape' and to the 'wonders and wounds of reality'. During his most productive period, he devoted himself almost exclusively to still lifes, mostly in small formats, focusing on the everyday. Typical of his works are photorealistic depictions of mundane, everyday objects. Through his precise, masterful painting technique in the style of trompe-l’œil or photorealism, he elevated these simple motifs, endowing them with a special dignity and aesthetic appeal.