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Roman Klonek

Roman Klonek

Roman Klonek, born in 1969 in Katowice (Poland), grew up in Hanover. In the early 1990s, he studied visual communication with a focus on printmaking at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, where he discovered his passion for woodcut printing. Since then, he has lived and worked as a freelance artist and graphic designer in Düsseldorf.

Klonek’s colorful prints and illustrations feature whimsical, often half-animal, half-human figures and navigate an exciting space between propaganda, folklore, and pop art. Inspired by Eastern European animated films of the 1970s as well as American and Japanese graphic design, he combines spontaneity and precision in the technique of lost-woodblock printing, in which all colors are printed from a single block.

Klonek’s works are regularly exhibited in Germany and abroad, including in Oslo, London, and São Paulo. In addition to his independent artistic practice, he creates illustrations for magazines such as WIRED, The New York Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle; works for advertising clients; leads workshops; and served as a visiting professor at Mainz University of Applied Sciences.

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