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 designer. 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.
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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
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
[solo exhibition]
Date
1979
Place
Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition

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References [<ExternalResource: Edwards, Deborah (2001), 'Robert Klippel: A sculptor of singular vision', Sydney Morning Herald, 06-20.>, <ExternalResource: (2001), '[obituary]', Sydney Morning Herald, 06-20, p.20.>]