Robert Klippel b. 19 June 1920

Also known as Robert Edward Klippel
  • Artist (Sculptor)
While Klippel is best known as a sculptor, he also worked in industrial design. Klippel's interest in sculpture began during WW2 while making scale models of ships for the Navy for recognition training. This lead to his early monumental carved stone figures and Surrealist works of the 1940s. His later works, for which he is best known, were non-figurative assemblages.
exhibited at
Grain of the voice: Retrospective season: 50 years of sound and image by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill
Date
10 October 2010 - 31 October 2010
Place
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Vic.
Type
Festival
exhibited at
Australian Surrealism: The Agapitos/Wilson Collection
Date
16 February 2008 - 11 May 2008
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

In 2007 the NGA acquired James Agapitos OAM, and Ray Wilson OAM, collection of Australian Surrealist art. Drawn from this collection this exhibition showed the breadth of Surrealist practice in this country from the 1920s to the 1950s.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://nga.gov.au/AustralianSurrealism/
exhibited at
Robert Klippel
Date
9 August 2002 - 13 October 2002
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/archived/2002/klippel
exhibited at
Robert Klippel
Date
2002
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

AGNSW and private funding. Comprising more than 250 pieces, this exhibition encompasses Klippel’s work from 1960s and 1990s. It also reflects the diversity of engagement
with various mediums and forms.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
The catalogue and http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/archived/klippel

Exhibition Catalogue:
Edwards, Deborah, Robert Klippel, Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2002
ISBN 0 734 76311 5 (hbk); ISBN 0 734 76332 8 (sbk)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Retrospective, Sculpture
exhibited at
Date
2001
Place
Watters Gallery, East Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
[exhibition of large assemblages]
Date
1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Robert Klippel: large wood sculptures and collages
Date
1995
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Large scale wooden sculptures and collages. The focus was on 30 sculptures completed between 1987 and 1989. Accompanied by a major publication.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW annual report & Edwards, Deborah, Robert Klippel: large wood sculptures and collages. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1995

Exhibition Catalogue:
Edwards, Deborah, Robert Klippel: large wood sculptures and collages. Sydney: Art Gallery of new South Wales, 1995
35 illus., 27 col.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Sculpture, Mixed media
exhibited at
Robert Klippel
Date
1993
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

An exhibition of 44 sculptures by the artist.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Edwards, Deborah, Robert Klippel, Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2002, p264; AGNSW Library catalogue;

Exhibition Catalogue:
Fisher, Tim, Robert Klippel: National Gallery of Australia. [Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, c1993]
20 p : ill (some col)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Sculpture
exhibited at
Microcosm
Date
4 December 1991 - 21 December 1991
Place
Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Robert Klippel: the sculptor's studio
Date
1990
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

The exhibition tried to reveal the artist’s creative process in making paper collages and constructed sculptures.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW annual report & archive index cards; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
The sculptor’s studio: Robert Klippel. [Sydney]: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1990
11 p : ill ; 30 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Sculpture, Mixed media
exhibited at
Robert Klippel: a retrospective exhibition of sculpture and works on paper
Date
1987
Place
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Heide exhibition archive; National Library of Australia catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Robert Kilppel: a retrospective exhibition of sculpture and works on paper. Bulleen, Vic: Heide Park and Art Gallery, c1987
ISBN 0947104038

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Retrospective, Sculpture, Drawing
exhibited at
Robert Klippel: collage and drawings 1947-1983
Date
1983
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

163 collages and drawings, 5 sketchbooks and 12 sculptures

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW annual report & archive index cards; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Robert Klippel: collage and drawings, 1947-1983. [Sydney]: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1984
16p: ; 34 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Sculpture, Mixed media, Drawing
exhibited at
[solo exhibition]
Date
1979
Place
Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Robert Klippel: drawings 1947-1975
Date
1975
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

79 drawings from the 1940s to the present (being the artist’s gift to the AGNSW

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW annual report and archive index cards

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Drawing
exhibited at
Save Victoria Street
Date
13 May 1973 - 20 May 1973
Place
Save Victoria Street campaign headquarters, 109 Victoria Street, Potts Point, New South Wales
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Direction 1
Date
4 December 1956 - 10 December 1956
Place
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition