“England is not the only island in the world of the artist and self-taught Klaus HA Springmuhl (Zwickau 1950 Leipzig 2006) is an unrecognised” (Klaus Werner). “The importance of the him as the original powerhouse” (Paul Kaiser and Claudia Petzold) within the oppositional art scene of Karl-Marx City (since 1990 again: Chemnitz) of the 1980s from companions and lovers is attached, is contrary to his low popularity. Since the early 1970s, Klaus HA Springmuhl pursued a processual and I-related, intermedial and adventurous art concept, which stood in open opposition to the officially promoted understanding of the art of the GDR and whose Bezuge to the avant-gardes of the 20th century and the Western contemporary art were seen early. His gestural painting showed although figurative elements, was never telling and campaigned for a realism of the material”(Ute Ackermann). Photography was his medium for documenting psychological and aesthetic moments and starting point for collages and Overpainting. Destroy and the rhythm of his work specific back linking. With the playwright and writer Heiner Muller (1929-1995), and the writer Joerg Waehner (* 1962) he created artist books.

Since his artistic beginnings in Cottbus and Dresden already also the musical for him in the interplay with his images stood. With the saxophone, he created potato sound collages, inter alia with Gitte HA Springmuhl, Erich Wolfgang Haider and Frank Rassbach in the formation”or also in Duet with television and radio receivers. This artistic facets to Gesamtkunstwerken joined in excessive, collective actions. This opened new opportunities for an expanded concept of art, who was looking for his peers in the GDR. Representatives of a younger generation of artists, who entliefen the provincial slumber”(Klaus Werner), he is considered in addition to Carlfriedrich Claus (1939-1998) pioneer and reference. Museum honors and reputation reached Despite major advocates and numerous solo exhibitions in galleries in HA Springmuhl little. He lived the ascetic life of a radical outsider for his art.

The altered sign of a free art market, in which he only bad found himself along, causing a gradual retreat from the art scene and also the art in the 1990s where he through Europe and to Japan in 1992 also traveled and moved to Leipzig. 2006 died Klaus HA Springmuhl in Leipzig. D21 art space Leipzig shows documents of his musical improvisations and a photographic action log by Karin Walton in this exhibition photo overpaintings, paintings, publications, a film together with Erich Wolfgang Haider. In a sound installation in the outdoor area, Frank Rassbach recalls his former companions. The exhibition has no retrospective claims, but wants to push for dialogues on Klaus HA Springmuhls role and the importance of his uncompromising experimentation for the Type present. An exhibition featuring works by Klaus HA Springmuhl, Erich Wolfgang Haider, Frank Rassbach and Karin Walton duration: 27 August to 19 September 2009 opening: August 26, 2009, 7: 00 Finissage: September 19, 2009, 18: 00 D21. KunstRaum-Leipzig, Demme ring road 21, 04109 Leipzig, opening hours: Thu Sun 13-19: 00 this exhibition is a cooperative project of the D21 of KunstRaum-Leipzig and Chemnitz Oscar e.V., promoted by the cultural foundation of the free State of Saxony and the culture Department of the city of Leipzig.