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Aral Tankstelle
Aral Petrol Station
Kunstpalast © Heinz Josef Klaßen

Aral Petrol Station, 1971

ArtistHeinz Josef Klaßen, Meppen *1936
MediumOil on canvas
(H x W)115 × 160 cm
Status
on display, room 031
About the workSince 1970, Heinz Josef Klaßen has been roaming the Ruhr area with his camera in search of the right images. In Essen, Duisburg and their surroundings, he took colour photographs of seemingly banal, everyday motifs: vending machines, trams, advertisements, traffic junctions and petrol stations. Klaßen, who also taught art at a secondary school, then projected the slides onto a canvas to paint them. These works made him a pioneer of photorealistic painting in Germany – a style, which was simultaneously developing in the USA and which did not become known in this country until the Documenta in 1972.
AccessionAcquisition 2024
Provenance2024 angekauft vom Künstler
Inventory number0.mkp.2024.1
Contact
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