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Robert Klippel

Robert Klippel (1920 - 2001) was active/lived in Australia.  Robert Klippel is known for Painting and sculpture.

In one year, Sydney in 1956 to New York in 1957, Klippel's work developed spectacularly.  Its rapid but entirely natural progress can be seen in Plates 10 to 13.  The tensions of form are sharper; movements are accelerated, and the foci of energy proliferate.  A marvelously agile sensibility is at work, attuned to the finest variation in the angle of a rod or the disposition of an implied space.  Few linear sculptors anywhere in recent years can have shown such control of complex forms...' (R. Hughes in Art and Australia, May 1964, p.26)

'Although all the works of this period are closely related, there are nevertheless two distinct types.  The earlier was a group of four consisting of Opus 66, Opus 67, a small uncatalogued sketch, and Opus 71 (he no longer gave names to his constructions but distinguished them by an opus number) and they were all made of brazed and welded steel rods with triangular metal planes set between   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2214 characters.]  Artist bio

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