Curriculum vitae

1919: Gerhard Klampaeckel was born in Vaitele, Samoa

1920: The family Klampaeckel went back to Germany because of the influence of the 1st World War. The island of Samoa, former colony of the German 1st Reich, was conquered by the British after the Germans were defeated in the war. The family went back to their home, a little town situated in Saxony called Glauchau.

Gerhard Klampaeckel grew up in Glauchau, finished his school and in 1939 he made a journeyman-exam for a painter of signs.

Between 1936 and 1936 he studied the painting of figures in Zwickau and nude paintings in Wien. But he also worked in Leipzig, Hamburg and Wien.

In 1940 he went to war as a German soldier and till 1947 he stayed in Italy as prisoner of war.

After the war (1949-1953) he went back to the university and studied at the university for art and culture in Dresden.

After 1955 he worked as a freelanced artist in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now renamed: Chemnitz) and he had some exhibitions in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Glauchau, Zakopane, Berlin, Leipzig, Meerane, Zwickau, Düsseldorf and Nürnberg. But he also took part in other national and international exhibitions.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall he took part in a few exhibition in Dresden and he had an exhibition in 1996 in Chemnitz.