Eric Klemm original Art

Eric Klemm is an artist painter, photographer and designer

living and working in British Columbia, Canada.

He has his work in many museums and private collections

in Canada, the USA and Europe. Eric Klemm's work has been exhibited in over 30 one man shows and countless group-shows all over the world.

ERIC KLEMM is an accomplished artist, born 1939 in Germany. He studied graphic design, painting and photography at art school Trier, Germany, from 1956 – 1961. After working 7 years as an art director in Heidelberg, Germany, he turned seriously to photography in 1968, when a photograph of his was published in TWEN, one of Germany’s top magazines at the time.

He was offered a job at the magazine by Willi Fleckhaus, the influential art director. That same year Eric Klemm was awarded by the prestigious Art Directors Club New York for his TWEN – photograph.

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It was this image that jumpstarted his career. In 1974 Eric Klemm moved to Duesseldorf, Germany, at the time the center for the new European  avantgarde in photography. There he opened a studio to work with numerous advertising agencies and art directors. At the same time he contributed as a freelance photographer to top magazines such as: STERN, Die ZEIT, FREUNDIN, the French magazine LUI and the German edition of PLAYBOY. His best photographs were published in PHOTO and PROFESSIONAL CAMERA.

Eric Klemm became a member of the prestigious Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Photographie. He had established himself as one of Germany’s top magazine photographers.

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In 1976, Eric Klemm left Germany for Cocoa Island in the Maldives, which was to become his home for the next 15 years, there he lived the happy life of a modern Robinson Crusoe until he purchased a house in Dordogne, right in the heart of France, not far from Paris, to slowly return to art again. After having spent 7 years in France, it was in 1998 when he and his wife moved to British Columbia, Canada, looking for new adventures. Now living in their new home in West Vancouver, he was ready to start something exiting and fresh, something he had not done before: fine art photography.

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11/23/2010, New Work, Pegasus Gallery for Canadian Art, Salt Spring Island, B.C., Canada, solo show

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06/12/2010, Silent Warriors, Pegasus Gallery for Canadian Art, Salt Spring Island, B.C., Canada, solo show

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04/01/2010, Silent Warriors, Blue Sky / Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, USA, solo show

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02/19/2010, An Exhibition of Kinder Art, Ferrero Foundation, Alba, Italy, group show

04/02/2010, Eric Klemm 2004-2010, Mahon Hall, Salt Spring Island, B.C., Canada, solo show

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01/28/2010, Silent Warriors, Luz Gallery, Victoria, B.C., Canada, solo show

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11/14/2009, Kinder Art at Bovisa Triennial, Milano, Italy, group show

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03/12/2009, Imagine, The Spring Art Collective Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA, group show, Juror S.Burnstine

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04/24/2009, Human Canvas, Center of Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Oregon, USA, group show

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03/01/2009, SNAP 2009, Live Auction, Collection Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Canada, organized by the Magenta Foundation, to raise funds for HIV/AIDS

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12/20/2008, Art Basel Miami, with Kipton Art, New York, NY, USA, in collaboration with Asprey, London

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10/25/2008, Toronto International Art Fair, with Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Canada

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09/14/2008, Photosynthesis, Salt Spring Island B.C., Canada, group show

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05/30/2008, Sehzeichen, Fotofestival Horizonte Zingst, Germany, group show

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05/01/2008, New Work, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Canada, a Feature Exhibition in the CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival, solo show

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09/08/2007, National Portrait Gallery, Photographic Portrait Prize, London, England, group show

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10/25/2007, Toronto International Art Fair, with Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Canada

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10/12/2007,  International Exhibition of Fine Art, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, USA.

05/03/2007, New Work, Art Spring, Salt Spring Island, B.C. ,Canada, solo show

10/21/2006, Vancouver Art Gallery, Anniversary Gala & Auction, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

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09/23/2006, Foto & Photo Photography Festival 2006, Cesano Maderno, Milan, Italy, solo show

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09/07/2010, Adventura, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY, USA, with Kipton Art, group show

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07/20/2006, Photosynthesis, Salt Spring Island, B.C., Canada, group show

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07/14/2006, Resonance, Photographic Center NW., Seattle, USA, Juror: Paul Kopeikin, group show

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05/01/2006, Impressions on the Land, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Canada, solo show

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03/10/2006, Metamorphosis, Foto Fest 2006 Biennial, Houston, Texas, USA, solo show

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02/28/2006, Back Alleys, Gallery Jones, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, solo show

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01/20/2006, Kipton Art at Maurice Villency, New York, NY, USA, group show

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11/12/2005,  Gallery Art Mayence, Mainz, Germany, group show

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08/20/2005, Photosynthesis, Art Spring, Salt Spring Island, B.C., Canada, group show

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06/01/2005, Metamorphosis, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Canada, solo show

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02/15/2005, Metamorphosis, Gallery Jones, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, solo show

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08/20/2004, Photo Secession, Art Spring, Salt Spring Island, B.C., Canada, group show

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06/2004,  Summer Salon, Exposure Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, group show

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1980, Twen - Revision of a Legend, Photokina Cologne, Munich, and Hamburg, Germany, travelling group show

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1972,  3. Weltausstellung der Photographie, Photokina Cologne, Germany

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1968, 2. Weltausstellung der Photographie, Photokina Cologne, Germany

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1968, Photographien, Sole d'Oro, Heidelberg, Germany, together with Harlan Ross Feltus, USA