BIOGRAPHY

Born 1932 Otterndorf am Main, Germany.
Lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany.

1954-1959
Study of medicine in Marburg an der Lahn and Munich
Visit documenta 2

1959
Abort of medical studies

1959-1963
Studied painting with Ernst Geitlinger, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich

1960
With the initiator Gerhard von Graevenitz and Jürgen Morschell founder of the "galerie nota" in Munich

1961
Meeting with Josef Albers in Ulm
Study trip to Spain

1963-1967
Master student and assistant to Ernst Geitlinger and Georg Meistermann

1963
Member of the »nouvelle tendence«
Visiting the Venice Biennale
Study trips to Paris and Spain

1974-1995
Professorship at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main

1974-1985
Conception and construction of the collection of concrete art of the district of Cuxhaven and cooperation in their presentation

1986-1997
Collaboration on the extension of the collection of concrete art of the district of Cuxhaven

1992
Honorary Prize of the 5th International Triennial of Drawing, Wroclaw, Poland

2003
Artist in Residence, Joseph and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany / Connecticut

2005
Visit to the Donald Judd Foundation, Marfa

2006/2009
Guest stay, International Artist House Villa Concordia, Bamberg

2009
International Artists Meeting, Galeria 72, Muzeum Chełmskie, Chełm, Poland

2015
Film, Studio International, Klaus Staudt.
Interview during the exhibition "Light and Transcendence", Mayor Gallery, London
Film, Museum of Concrete Art and Foundation for Concrete Art Ingolstadt:
»Klaus Staudt in conversation with the curator Anna Wondrak«

Development of artistic work

1960
White serial wood reliefs

1964
Space-shadow reliefs
Two-layer reliefs

1967
Hanging double reliefs

1968-1972
Colored transparent objects

1969
First multiples

since 1970
Constructive drawings

1973
Objects with white tarnished Plexiglas

since 1977
Free standing sculptures (layered reliefs)

1981
Shadow reliefs (shadow grid)

1984
First wood sculpture

1987
Translucent white-colored objects
First steel sculpture

1992
Translucent double reliefs

1996
Orthogonal and diagonal structure reliefs

2001
Polygonal objects

2004
Objects with bipolar network structures

2009
Single-layer, semi-transparent reliefs

2014
Beginning of the group of works with horizontal structures