Robert Klippel (1920)

Aliases: Robert Edward Klippel

Professions: Sculptor; Painter; Collage Artist

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  ROBERT EDWARD KLIPPEL (1920-2001)

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  ROBERT EDWARD KLIPPEL (1920-2001)

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  ROBERT EDWARD KLIPPEL (1920-2001)

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  ROBERT EDWARD KLIPPEL (1920-2001)

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Robert Klippel Biography

(b Sydney, 19 June 1920). Australian sculptor, collagist and teacher. While serving in the Royal Australian Navy as a seaman during World War II, he was stationed ashore in 1943 to make scale models of ships and aeroplanes. After the war he studied sculpture, mainly wood-carving, under Lyndon Dadswell at the East Sydney Technical College, and in 1947 travelled to London, where he studied at the Slade School of Fine Art for a short period. He felt restricted by the conventional teaching methods of both these institutions and their inherent dependency upon the figure. While living in London he regularly visited the major museums, making thousands of drawings in order to develop a vocabulary of forms and shapes that he used as a basis for his sculptural ideas. He was interested in the relationship between organic and machine forms and the internal structure of these forms. This was the beginning of his developing sculptural language, which he called a ‘relationship of forms’.

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