The Works of Futurist Klaus BĆ¼rgle
(1926-2015) German Graphic Artist
From His German Wikipedia PageĀ (Google Translated):
Klaus BĆ¼rgle attended the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1948 to 1951 and was appointed by Professors Rƶssingand tailor teaches. Since 1953 he worked as a freelance graphic artist. He specialized in technical-scientific topics, illustrated a variety of popular science books and magazines and worked for scientific television series. In particular, he designed visionary illustrations on these topics: The operation of cars with nuclear engines and wirelessly transmitted electrical energy, as well as airplanes with supersonic technology for cargo and passenger transport and orbital missiles for space tourism, continued to create public images of novel solutions for rail and shipping and unconventional ideas for the handling of everyday business in the picture. He became known mainly through the large-format flip-flops in the youth book series The New Universe .
In 2010, works by BĆ¼rgle were shown in an exhibition organized by Kunsthalle Gƶppingen at Schloss Filseck near Gƶppingen. His marked by friendly-positive color illustrations of the āpursuit of more and more, always on, always higher, faster and fasterā inĀ view of the known hazards to the ecosphere today without criticism and naive, but are understandable against the background of the consciousness of the Fifties and sixties, when the economic miracle inspired the technical fantasies.
His Bio on his Official Website:
1926 - born in Stuttgart, Germany
1948-1949 - studies at the State Academy of the Arts, Stuttgart, with Professor Karl Rƶssing
1949 - interested in rockets and future technology. First drawing for the annual magazine āDas Neue Universumā
1953 - started working as a freelance graphic artist and illustrator
2010 - retrospective exhibition in Gƶppingen, showing many of the remaining original works
2015 - died in Gƶppingen near Stuttgart.
BĆ¼rgle specialized in technical and scientific topics. He was able to visualize technology that existed only as engineering ideas, turning them into photo realistic drawings. BĆ¼rgle produced many illustrations for scientific books, magazines, and television productions.
BĆ¼rgleās original drawings were given to the book and magazine companies most of which donāt exist any more. As a result, most of the originals are lost. What we present here is based on photographs and scans of prints.
His Official WebsiteĀ (German)
His Official Website (Partially Translated into English)
The Works of Klaus BĆ¼rgle (Part 2)
The Works of KlausĀ BĆ¼rgle (Part 3)
All Images Ā© KlausĀ BĆ¼rgle and/or the respective publications.
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