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The Works of Futurist Klaus Bürgle

(1926-2015) German Graphic Artist

From His German Wikipedia Page (Google Translated):

Klaus Bürgle attended the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1948 to 1951 and was appointed by Professors Rössingand tailor teaches. Since 1953 he worked as a freelance graphic artist. He specialized in technical-scientific topics, illustrated a variety of popular science books and magazines and worked for scientific television series. In particular, he designed visionary illustrations on these topics: The operation of cars with nuclear engines and wirelessly transmitted electrical energy, as well as airplanes with supersonic technology for cargo and passenger transport and orbital missiles for space tourism, continued to create public images of novel solutions for rail and shipping and unconventional ideas for the handling of everyday business in the picture. He became known mainly through the large-format flip-flops in the youth book series The New Universe .

In 2010, works by Bürgle were shown in an exhibition organized by Kunsthalle Göppingen at Schloss Filseck near Göppingen. His marked by friendly-positive color illustrations of the "pursuit of more and more, always on, always higher, faster and faster" in view of the known hazards to the ecosphere today without criticism and naive, but are understandable against the background of the consciousness of the Fifties and sixties, when the economic miracle inspired the technical fantasies.

His Bio on his Official Website:

1926 - born in Stuttgart, Germany

1948-1949 - studies at the State Academy of the Arts, Stuttgart, with Professor Karl Rössing

1949 - interested in rockets and future technology. First drawing for the annual magazine "Das Neue Universum"

1953 - started working as a freelance graphic artist and illustrator

2010 - retrospective exhibition in Göppingen, showing many of the remaining original works

2015 - died in Göppingen near Stuttgart.

Bürgle specialized in technical and scientific topics. He was able to visualize technology that existed only as engineering ideas, turning them into photo realistic drawings. Bürgle produced many illustrations for scientific books, magazines, and television productions.

Bürgle's original drawings were given to the book and magazine companies most of which don't exist any more. As a result, most of the originals are lost. What we present here is based on photographs and scans of prints.

More Info on Klaus:

His Official Website (German)

His Official Website (Partially Translated into English)

Facebook Page

More Klaus Art:

The Works of Klaus Bürgle (Part 2)

The Works of Klaus Bürgle (Part 3)

All Images © Klaus Bürgle and/or the respective publications.

More Retro and Vintage Goodies:

There're many reasons. But I've narrowed them down to just a few. There will likely be a part 2 to this blog. 

Cool hooks - I usually find new music when I can’t get a hook out of my head. I refer to it as "honoring the song" when I have go back and listen again.

Cool/unique voice - If you sound like a regular person then I can’t listen. No matter how hard I try, its like if someone painted the Mona Lisa with one color. I need some sort of texture.

Good music – Good means YOU have to like it. Not me, not your friends, not the guy on the TV, or the guy blogging about what’s good and what’s not. It’s all you.

Lyrical content - Doesn’t mean you have to reveal the secrets of the universe. I just want to hear somebody talk about something meaningful to him or her and it will be enjoyable for me.

To be continued...