Robert Klümpen, born in Issum in 1973, studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. For work stays and scholarships he was among others in Vienna, Venice, Florence and Paris. He has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions. His search for abstraction in the figurative, which has characterized Robert Klümpens work since its beginnings, experiences a reversal in the paintings of recent years: they question the relationship between abstraction and figuration.