{"id":16900,"date":"2026-11-02T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/uncategorized\/klaus-hack\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T14:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T13:22:16","slug":"klaus-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/upcoming-exhibition\/klaus-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Klaus Hack – Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Side Events<\/h4>\n

SLOW ART GUIDED TOUR
\nDecember 3, 2026 at 17:00<\/strong>
\nfeaturing selected works by Klaus Hack<\/p>\n

ARTIST TALK
\nJanuary 10, 2027 at 11:00<\/strong>
\nKlaus Hack in conversation with Dr. Josephine Gabler[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Klaus Hack – Retrospective<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 15, 2026 to January 10, 2027<\/strong>
\nOpening: Sunday, November 15, 2026, 11:00<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Klaus Hack (born in Bayreuth in 1966) is an artist who not only embarked on his independent career early on and with great success, but has also continuously developed his work ever since. Bucking the trends of his time, Hack\u2014inspired by Expressionist sculptures\u2014chose wood as his medium from the very beginning. For 40 years now, he has been creating large-format, often white-painted wooden sculptures using this material\u2014works that demonstrate versatile and virtuosic craftsmanship, imaginative motifs, and multifaceted themes.<\/p>\n

After completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter, Klaus Hack first studied at the Academy in Nuremberg under the figurative sculptor Wilhelm Uhlig (1930\u20132022). In 1991, he transferred to the Berlin University of the Arts to study under Rolf Szymanski (1928\u20132013), where he began to move away from the intact human figure, allowing bodies and objects to develop into free forms. The artist has been working independently since 1995.<\/p>\n

Klaus Hack\u2019s sculptures are mostly viewable from all sides, full of openings and intertwined forms. The artist invents fantastical creatures, obsessively structured surfaces, and architectural forms, and constructs altars of unusual spirituality. His woodcut prints combine two- and three-dimensional elements, with the carved tree trunk serving as a printing cylinder for large-format prints on canvas. In addition, Klaus Hack creates impressive woodcuts in high-contrast colors as well as delicately imaginative small-format paintings. The work of Klaus Hack, now sixty years old, is characterized by a love of storytelling and a wealth of imagination. In the consistency with which he has continually developed his work using wood as a medium, it stands as a singular phenomenon in the present day.<\/p>\n

The exhibition traces the artist\u2019s creative development from his early beginnings in the mid-1980s\u2014which were influenced by the sculptures of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880\u20131938), through his work as a master student under Rolf Szymanski and his first independent works\u2014the large-format print drum pieces\u2014to the internalized seated figures of the early 2000s, the architectural objects and reliefs, and up to his current altars and figures.<\/p>\n

On display are approximately 30 sculptures\u2014some of them large-scale\u2014along with several monumental woodblock prints and woodcuts, as well as numerous drawings.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Special exhibition<\/p>\n

from November 15, 2026 to January 10, 2027<\/p>\n

Contrary to the prevailing trend, the sculptor Klaus Hack (born 1966) opted early on for the traditional medium of wood, which offers the ideal conditions for his imaginative art, which straddles the line between surreal creatures and structural forms. In addition to free-standing sculptures, Klaus Hack also creates reliefs and woodcuts, and is an imaginative draughtsman.<\/p>\n

After studying under Wilhelm Uhlig in Nuremberg and Rolf Szymanski and Lothar Fischer in Berlin, Hack completed his training as a master student in 1995. He has been working as a freelance artist ever since. Born in Franconia, he now lives in Brandenburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upcoming-exhibition","category-96","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16900"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17057,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900\/revisions\/17057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}