Fon Klement - acrylic on canvas - Roses - signed

As an artist, Fon Klement was self-taught. After a short period in which he gained respect as a figurative painter and woodcarver, the first multi-coloured graphic sheets were created in 1960 in his typical technique of relief printing boardcut. Recognisable formal elements gradually made way for more abstract motifs in a sober colour range. An overview of this work was on display in the Museum Van Bommel-Van Dam in Venlo in 1980.

In the eighties vegetative elements, of which form and colour are exuberant, make their entrance. In September 1990, on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, new work is exhibited in the Singer Museum in Laren. In addition to exhibitions, his oeuvre can be seen in travelling graphic exhibitions
Since 1961 he has been a member of Xylon, the international association of woodcutters, which regularly shows graphics throughout Europe. The exhibition Prints today in the USA, with an overview of graphics by Dutch artists, including Fon Klement, travels through the United States for years. During the Grafischbiennale Grafiek nu in Laren in the autumn of 1990, and later at the International Grafischbiennale in Maastricht, which is held during the summer of 1993, Fon Klement is awarded the audience prize.
Fon Klement must be considered one of the most successful artists of our time.