Biography of Klaas Gubbels

' My work go about painting, not about coffee pots. ' Klaas Gubbels is without any doubt one of the most important living artists. The images are created by him already become icons for many generations: serious, but graceful performances that although recognizable, always scan the edges of realism. With admirable fortitude Klaas Gubbels since the 1950s has an impressive oeuvre in which coffee pots, tables, bottles, chess boards and a single female figure or Chair. Particularly at this time when many – including also artists – are often guided by the issues of the day the artistic attitude of Klaas Gubbels is a breath of fresh air: in the quiet of one of its two workshops, in Arnhem or France, he systematically goes through with his search for new expressions within his personal themes.