Jürgen Claus (28 May 1935 – 5 September 2023) was a German

artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...

and author.

Biography

Claus was born on 28 May 1935 in

Aachen Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th- ...

, Germany. He worked as a visual artist, using various techniques; painting,

film A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...

, light and solar installations, and underwater art. As an author, he wrote numerous works on media art and the development of its theory. Claus died on 5 September 2023 in Aachen at the age of 88.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Claus, Jürgen 1935 births 2023 deaths Artists from Berlin German painters