About the artist:

Klaus Winkelmann, German artist, born in 1935 in Ratibor, now Racibórz, Poland

studied dramatic arts and teaching in Bavaria, Germany

Self-taught in wide ranging media including  painting, graphics, music and film

Currently living in Bavaria, Southern Germany

 

Additional Studies:

 

Life drawings 

  • Franz Vornberger
  • Karin Blum
  • Manfred Hürlimann

Etching

  • Richard Pinkert
  • Katja Wunderling

Lithography

  • Günter Paule

Expressive Drawing and Colour Theory

  • Eva Eyquem

Ceramics

  • Werner Ramser

Study trips

Morocco, Tunisia, Kenia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lanzarote

Italy, France, England, the former Yugoslavia, Poland

Norway, Iceland, 

China, Thailand, Borneo

 

Exhibitions

Nürnberg, Fürth, Erlangen, Bayreuth, Pommersfelden, Coburg, Paris

 

Film prizes

Nationally and internationally acclaimed amateur films in the categories travel, short features, animation and experimental films

 

Musical achievements

Compositions for harp, piano, violin  and piano, violoncello and piano, string quartet, brass quintet, orchestra

His composition ‘Tango for Harp’ was performed by Serika Nakano in a concert in the Central Conservatory for Music in Beijing in 1997

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