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.
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.
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.
past EXHIBITIONS
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11/23/2010, New Work, Pegasus Gallery for Canadian Art, Salt Spring Island, B.C., Canada, solo show
06/12/2010, Silent Warriors, Pegasus Gallery for Canadian Art, Salt Spring Island, B.C., Canada, solo show
04/01/2010, Silent Warriors, Blue Sky / Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, USA, solo show
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
01/28/2010, Silent Warriors, Luz Gallery, Victoria, B.C., Canada, solo show
11/14/2009, Kinder Art at Bovisa Triennial, Milano, Italy, group show
03/12/2009, Imagine, The Spring Art Collective Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA, group show, Juror S.Burnstine
04/24/2009, Human Canvas, Center of Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Oregon, USA, group show
03/01/2009, SNAP 2009, Live Auction, Collection Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Canada, organized by the Magenta Foundation, to raise funds for HIV/AIDS
12/20/2008, Art Basel Miami, with Kipton Art, New York, NY, USA, in collaboration with Asprey, London
10/25/2008, Toronto International Art Fair, with Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Canada
09/14/2008, Photosynthesis, Salt Spring Island B.C., Canada, group show
05/30/2008, Sehzeichen, Fotofestival Horizonte Zingst, Germany, group show
05/01/2008, New Work, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Canada, a Feature Exhibition in the CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival, solo show
09/08/2007, National Portrait Gallery, Photographic Portrait Prize, London, England, group show
10/25/2007, Toronto International Art Fair, with Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Canada
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
09/23/2006, Foto & Photo Photography Festival 2006, Cesano Maderno, Milan, Italy, solo show
09/07/2010, Adventura, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY, USA, with Kipton Art, group show
07/20/2006, Photosynthesis, Salt Spring Island, B.C., Canada, group show
07/14/2006, Resonance, Photographic Center NW., Seattle, USA, Juror: Paul Kopeikin, group show
05/01/2006, Impressions on the Land, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Canada, solo show
03/10/2006, Metamorphosis, Foto Fest 2006 Biennial, Houston, Texas, USA, solo show
02/28/2006, Back Alleys, Gallery Jones, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, solo show
01/20/2006, Kipton Art at Maurice Villency, New York, NY, USA, group show
11/12/2005, Gallery Art Mayence, Mainz, Germany, group show
08/20/2005, Photosynthesis, Art Spring, Salt Spring Island, B.C., Canada, group show
06/01/2005, Metamorphosis, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Canada, solo show
02/15/2005, Metamorphosis, Gallery Jones, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, solo show
08/20/2004, Photo Secession, Art Spring, Salt Spring Island, B.C., Canada, group show
06/2004, Summer Salon, Exposure Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, group show
1980, Twen - Revision of a Legend, Photokina Cologne, Munich, and Hamburg, Germany, travelling group show
1972, 3. Weltausstellung der Photographie, Photokina Cologne, Germany
1968, 2. Weltausstellung der Photographie, Photokina Cologne, Germany
1968, Photographien, Sole d'Oro, Heidelberg, Germany, together with Harlan Ross Feltus, USA
