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Konrad Klapheck (1935 – 2023) was a German painter and graphic artist whose style of painting combines features of Surrealism and Pop art.

His typewriter painting The Will to Power (1959) was featured in Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (1999) by Friedrich A. Kittler and his painting Der Krieg (1965) was the object of one of the episodes of 1000 Meisterwerke.

Biography

Konrad Klapheck was born in Düsseldorf on 10 February 1935 to arts historians and professors Richard and Anna Klappheck (née Strümpell, daughter of Adolf Strümpell).

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From 1954 to 1956 Konrad studied painting under Bruno Goller at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Klapheck's works of the mid-1950s are in a magic realist style that became more idiosyncratic when he painted the first of his typewriters.

His subsequent paintings, often large in scale, are precise and seemingly realistic depictions of techn