Life

Klaus Kammerichs

1933Born in Iserlohn. Son of a type-setter and passionate amateur-photographer
1947ff.After having studied photography work as a professional photographer (journalistic, industrial, advertising)
1950A first desire for first hand knowledge of modern art prompts him to cycle to Paris
1953

Participation in a seminar about “Subjective Photography” with Otto Steinert in Saarbrücken

Early successes with his own creative works taken during his journeys to France and Spain

1954First participation on famous Cologne “photokina”-exhibitions, foundet bei L. Fritz Gruber
1956 – 1959Studies of fine art with Otto Coester and Otto Pankok at Academy of Arts, Düsseldorf
1959“Discovery of the Month” in the New York magazin “Modern Photography”
1963First teaching assignment for “Modern Photography” at the Werkkunstschule Düsseldorf (later University of Applied Sciences)
1971First solo exhibition of the newly created photo sculptures at Galerie Niepel, Düsseldorf
seit 1973Professor at the “Fachhochschule Düsseldorf”, there dean from 1978 – 1984
1974First four-dimensional sculpture, a symbolically kinetic interpretation of space, time and movement
seit 1975Public commissions
seit 1985

Individual exhibitions in Poland, Japan and USA.

Monumental outdoor-sculptures in Gifu (Japan), Düsseldorf, Munic, Bad Segeberg, Leinfelden and Bonn

1985 – 1986

Research semester (sabbatical) Canada / USA. Contact
to numerous university colleagues and students, technical discussions, lectures

1986First encounter with the writer Eva Weissweiler. With her, he subsequently produced several experimental videos and documentaries for German television stations.
 Creator of the famous Beethoven-sculpture “Beethon” in Bonn, which has become a frequently visited landmark of Germany’s former capital
1988

Lecturer at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
(At the same time there is an exhibition of “photo sculptures”)

1992 – 2019Studio and second home in Demerath (Vulkan-Eifel)
1994David-Octavius-Hill-Prize of the “Deutsche Fotografische Akademie”
2003Married to the writer Eva Weissweiler (s. 1986)
2008Three life-size Karl-Marx sculptures (concrete) in the garden of the Karl-Marx House in Trier
2010 – 2015

Photographic creative courses with mentally ill patients of the LVR-Klinik Merheim.

5 large exhibitions in Cologne, large formats permanently in the clinic

2014Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle, Saale, takes over photographic
Frühwerk (1948 – 1954)
2019Positioning the sculpture “Robert and Clara Schumann” Schumann-Haus Zwickau
 Evolent relocation and re-esituation of the large sculpture “Hand mit
Zeichenstift” 1985, to the new campus of the HSD
(Hochschule Düsseldorf)
2021Positioning the large sculpture “Eishockey-Mannschaft” 1973, to the Düsseldorfer DEG Eissporthalle
 Klaus Kammerichs is father of three children, grandfather of five grandchildren and great-grandfather of three great-grandchildren.