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Vogelgesang, Klaus
(b Radebeul, 27 April 1945). German painter. He grew up in Gronau, Westphalia, but in 1965 he moved to Berlin, where he studied until 1969 at the Akademie für Grafik, Druck und Werbung. After his studies he worked as a freelance artist. In 1972 he founded the group Aspekt with other representatives of Critical Realism (see BERLIN, §II, 5). During 1976 he was in Rome as a scholar at the Villa Massimo. Having painted in watercolour and produced line drawings verging on caricatures with heightened outlines, he began c. 1970 to work on compositions that were small at first but already pictorial. The inner spaces of his figures were filled with modulations of light and shade; the accessories had brilliant likeness and perfect detail, lending his work, which almost exclusively comprised pencil and crayon drawings, an illusory effect.
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