Johann Manfred Kleber
Galerie Carlos Hulsch invites you to the opening of the exhibition ‘Das Grundgesetz’ by the artist Johann Manfred Kleber, the scriptopath, on 31 October 2024.
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Johann Manfred Kleber was born in Berlin-Pankow. At the age of five, he wrote his first word in calligraphy from dictation: ‘eresimitemutsin’.
In 1967, after graduating from high school, studying musicology at the Free University of Berlin and violin at the Municipal Conservatory in Berlin, he opened his pub in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, which he called GALERIE NATUBS. Exhibitions, readings, concerts and film screenings took place there regularly.
In 1971, together with his wife Andrea Kleber, he founded the GALERIE KLEBER in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
In 1965, during his studies, he and others published the ‘FESTSCHRIFT FÜR KLSCHTAKOFTA’, handwritten in hollow script, the so-called ‘martialis klangholdis’ of the Natubs-Offizin. He also wrote announcements, posters, toilet slogans etc. for events in the Natubs Gallery in this font.
At the beginning of the 1980s, he began the libidinous hollow lettering of the unprinted beer mat pages with the (alcoholic) deep and weak sense of his guests.
In 1989, after giving up the pub and the gallery, he devoted himself passionately to the scriptural.
Johann Manfred Kleber lives and works in Berlin Neukölln. He has been exhibiting regularly since 1996.
Since August 2011 he has called himself scriptopath.
