Staeck, Klaus (1938 Pulsnitz - active in Heidelberg)

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4 postcards based on poster motifs from the 1970s and 80s, official ass, thoughts are free, world government and reading makes you stupid, Edition Staeck, slight signs of age, 1 x verso slight flaws in the paper, format each approx. 15 x 10.5 cm, added 2 monographs: Nothing is done. Klaus Staeck. A retrospective, with artist signature, Hamburg 2005, as well as Klaus Staeck. Happy Future, Göttingen 2004, graphic designer, caricaturist and lawyer, grew up in Bitterfeld, moved to Heidelberg after graduating from high school in 1956, studied law there, also worked as a self-taught graphic designer, from 1960 began designing satirical postcards, posters and leaflets, 1965 founded the producer publishing house Edition Tangente, today Edition Staeck, 1968 collaboration with Joseph Beuys, in the 1970s various sensational poster campaigns, represented at documenta 6-8, 1986 lecturer at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, from 1990 member of the Berlin Academy of Arts, 2006-15 President ibid .