Clara Knör, 25, is an illustrator and a free spirit. She says about her illustrations: “My style is like free play on paper, with a lot of movement. There are no rules.” She designed the cover for the recently published issue of “Zeit” magazine “Munich”. Clara comes from Cologne and has been living in Munich since 2019. She shares a studio with good friends in a backyard in the Glockenbachviertel.
In addition to her artistic work, Clara has two other passions: skating and music. She DJs in clubs and parties in Munich. In between everything, she still finds time to simply draw for herself, which is very important to her. Like these colorful flowers. “They were created in a friend’s garden. I simply used watercolors. They all have faces, they’re sitting there in the garden and talking.”
Clara likes frogs. “I think amphibians are beautiful, the way they live, they breathe through their skin. I have two coral-fingered tree frogs in a terrarium in my shared room.” Every now and then frogs appear in Clara’s illustrations and sketches. “These are sketches with things that I pick up in life; I just see what happens when my associations and ideas come.”
Clara likes to use the squeezer when she is “scared of white paper”. “Depending on the angle, more or less ink comes out of the pen and it’s somehow easier to work with perfectionism. I can let chance play its part better.” As a skater, Clara is active in the scene a lot. She works for a label that produces skateboards and fashion. Her illustrations are printed on clothing there.
Clara often spends her free time in the countryside, in Munich she prefers the Perlacher Forest and the ponds. “There I photographed the tadpoles that you see on the garden tablecloth.” She further processed her photos of the tadpoles, superimposed different layers and then had them printed on the tablecloth. “This was a series that I made for an exhibition in Frankfurt in 2022.”
Clara also designs posters for concerts and parties. “This was a concert series in Hellerau. There should be a suitable illustration for every artist who performed there. Here it was one with a trumpet.” She illustrated a poster for the Goldener Reiter club’s “Mixed Feelings” series and an album cover for the band “Real Ponchos” from Vancouver.