Jürgen Klauke (born 6 September 1943) is a German artist. Beginning in the 1960s, he used his own body as a subject of his photographs.
[ He also experimented with minimalism and surrealism. The ZKM in ]Karlsruhe
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exhibits his work.["Multiple Identities and Sexes"; An Interview with Jürgen Klauke]
Deutsche Bank Art Works, ArtMag. Since 1968 he lives and works in Cologne
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.[Meister, Helga (September 3, 2013).]
Jürgen Klauke – der unangepasste kölner Künstler wird 70
" ''Westdeutsche Zeitung
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''. Retrieved 2016-02-21 from www.wz.de.
Klauke was born in Kliding[Jürgen Klauke]
ember profile Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste. Retrieved 2016-02-21. near Cochem
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, about 70 kilometers southwest of Koblenz, in what became the postwar West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate
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. He studied graphic arts at the Kölner Werkschulen
The ''Kölner Werkschulen'' (Cologne Academy of Fine and Applied Arts), formerly Cologne Art and Craft Schools, was a university in Cologne training artists in visual arts, architecture and design from 1926 to 1971.
History Origins
The origins ...
from 1964 to 1970; toward the end of his studies, he began focusing on photography as a medium of artistic expression.
From 1994 to 2008 Klauke was professor of photography at the Kunsthochschule für Medien (Academy of Media Arts), in Cologne.New York City
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; the show, ''Jürgen Klauke, Transformer: Photoworks from the 1970s'', at Koenig & Clinton, included photographic series completed between 1970 and 1976, primarily featuring costumed and androgynous images of the artist.Jürgen Klauke, Transformer: Photoworks from the 1970s
ress release(2016). Koenig & Clinton gallery. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
References
External links
Jürgen Klauke website
1943 births
Living people
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