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| | ARTIST NAME: | Klotsche, Siegfried | | ACCESSION NUMBER: | 1983.035.001 | | TITLE: | MALIGNE LAKE (JASPER) | | DATE: | n.d. | | CATEGORY: | Sculpture | | MEDIUM: | marquetry, intrarsia, wood | | DIMENSIONS: | Actual: 47.4 x 55 cm (18 11/16 x 21 5/8 in.) | | COLLECTION: | Alberta Foundation for the Arts |
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| | OTHER HOLDINGS: | Klotsche, Siegfried | | ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Born in Wilschdorf, Germany, sculptor Siegfried Klotsche apprenticed in woodworking before being conscripted into the German army during the final years of World War II, where he was severely wounded. After moving to Canada in 1953, Klotsche worked as a cabinet maker for the W.R. Zeidler Co. (a carpenter’s shop in Edmonton), and then began his own business as one of the North America’s few remaining experts in marquetry, the art of inlaid wood.
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts preserves a stately and serene Klotsche marquetry entitled “Maligne Lake, Jasper” (1983); the sculpture employs intarsia, an elaborate marquetry form developed in 15th-Century Italy. The Government of Alberta and the Government of West Germany each commissioned Klotsche to produce work.
Klotsche was a member of the Alberta Fine Arts Association, the Alberta Craft Council, and the Marquetry Societies of England and the United States. He created and donated numerous plaques to high ranking members of and guest speakers for the Freemasonic Lodge to which he belonged, Edmonton’s Commercial Lodge No. 81 of the Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons (Scottish Rite); Klotsche was also a member of the York Rite bodies of Alberta, and the Legion of Honour of Al Shamal Shriners.
For fifty years Klotsche was an active member of the global German language, arts, and humour fraternity Schlaraffia, and also of the German-Canadian Businessmen’s Association, the German Canadian Cultural Association, and its Mardi Gras carnival group Blaue Funken, and an honorary member of the Bavarian Schuhplattler.
While Klotsche never mounted an exhibition or sold work through galleries, he sold pieces throughout his artistic career. He died unexpectedly at home in 2008, and was survived by his wife Kaethe of fifty-eight years.
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