Manfred Knabe

Creative Defamiliarisation
Works by Manfred Knabe in the LAUDA FactoryGallery

01.06.2010 - 31.07.2010

His art has already made it into a schoolbook from Klett Verlag, one of the biggest educational publishers in Germany. Now, a few months after presenting his collages at the “das auge” art circle gallery, Manfred Knabe is now also exhibiting in the LAUDA FactoryGallery of Dr R. Wobser. At the newly established “Ma(h)lzeit”, the various exhibiting artists explain their works to interested members of staff during a lunch break at LAUDA, where they speak and answer questions. Lauda-Königshofen art circle chairman Norbert Gleich provided an insight into the life and work of the artist.

Having worked for 26 years as a trained offset printer in advertising agencies, Manfred Knabe then completed his artistic training in drawing and composition theory, learned various printing techniques, batik, enamelling, painting and pottery from some well-known artists, and took lessons in creativity and typography. In the 60s, Knabe contested several exhibitions in Baden-Württemberg and, as holiday cover, started teaching art to children and young people using the techniques he had acquired. Since 2001, Manfred Knabe has again dedicated himself more intensively to art, exhibiting in the Stuttgart area and for the first time in “das auge” gallery in the Lauda-Königshofen art circle. In October 2006, he gained a new accolade – one of his collages was projected onto the wall of the concert hall in the context of a Mozart event at the Melbourne Goethe Institute.

As a member of the Lauda-Königshofen art circle, Knabe also presents his maverick works in group exhibitions such as the current “30 years of the lovely Tauber valley cycle path” anniversary exhibition; his “Mountain of Bikes” is a play on words that has become a picture. Now, his creatively defamiliarised portraits including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Albert Einstein and even Marilyn Monroe (to name but a few) can be seen for two months in the LAUDA FactoryGallery, where they can be admired and the visit recorded in the guest book provided.

The works in the LAUDA FactoryGallery can be viewed by interested parties during working hours subject to registration.

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