1954 born in Heiligenstadt
1958 the family escaped from the GDR to Fritzlar
1960 moving to Stuttgart
1972 journeys to lndia, Nepal, Sikkim
1973 studies of free graphik at the Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart by the professors Peter Grau, Gunter Böhmer
and Rudolf Schoofs
1979 creation of the first stone scultpure
1980-84 graduates in drawing and graphics
admission to the studies of sculpting at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenen Künste Stuttgart
since 1984 works as a self-employed artist
1989 first exhibiton in Stuttgart
1994 Felix-Hollenberg-award for etching
1999 moves to Weidelbach
Lives and works in Stuttgart und Weidelbach, Germany
Exhibitons (selection)
Solo Exhibitions (starting 2000)
2019 Botanical Garden, Jena, Germany
2018 Bode Gallery Nuremberg, Germany
2017 Christian Daniel Rauch-Museum, Museum, Bad Arolsen, Germany
2016 RathausArt by Bode Gallery, fair, Nuremberg, Germany
Eijip-Serie at Bode Project Space@Daegu, South Korea
2015 Skulpturen, Bode Gallery, Nuremberg, Germany
Skulpturenmeile, outdoor installation, Ansbach, Germany
Et-und, auch, double exhibition in St. Egidien and St. Sebald, Nuremberg, Germany
2014 Paare, Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen, city gallery, Tuttlingen, Germany
Tangere, Kreuzgang des Basler Münster, Muenster, Germany
Zamek Slavkov, Austerlitz, Czech rebuplic
Sculptures by Dietrich Klinge, Bode Project Space@ Daegu, South Korea
2013 Sitzfiguren, Bode Gallery, Nuremberg, Germany
2013 Blickachsen 9 – Dietrich Klinge in Kloster Eberbach, Exhibition, Eberbach, Germany
2008 Archäologischer Garten zwischen Römer und Dom, Exhibition, Frankfurt a. M.,
Germany
Musei della Maremma, Provincia di Grosseto, ltaly
2007 Galerieverein Leonberg with M. Storz, gallery association, Leonberg, Germany
2005 Museum Küppersmühle Sammlung Grothe, Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
2003 Stadtkirche Darmstadt, city church, Darmstadt, Germany
2002 DRK Krankenhaus Westend Berlin with R. Szymanski (exhibition), Berlin, Germany
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