Jürgen Klauke studied at the Werkschulen in Cologne and, from 1964 to 1970, he taught photography and art in Kassel. In the 1970s Jürgen Klauke’s photographic images were based around his own body and his performances. In a series of large-scale images he challenged what was at that time a traditional view of sexual identity and opposed social expectations of behavior.
« Art and life, day and night, sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, to the point of excess and then working again excessively. If one survives this unharmed, there is no shortage of a certain kind of experience and external perception composes anecdotes. »
Jürgen Klauke
There was a darker mood revealed in many of his photography of the early 1980s and in the late 1980s he
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Jürgen Klauke studied at the Werkschulen in Cologne and, from 1964 to 1970, he taught photography and art in Kassel. In the 1970s Jürgen Klauke’s photographic images were based around his own body and his performances. In a series of large-scale images he challenged what was at that time a traditional view of sexual identity and opposed social expectations of behavior.
« Art and life, day and night, sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, to the point of excess and then working again excessively. If one survives this unharmed, there is no shortage of a certain kind of experience and external perception composes anecdotes. »
Jürgen Klauke
There was a darker mood revealed in many of his photography of the early 1980s and in the late 1980s he began a series of x-ray images of his own body. Some of his art deals with how physical identity and self awareness are constantly under threat from what is portrayed in the media and other outside influences. His series Aesthetic Paranoia is a pictorial analogy of the self obscured and bound by paranoia, sometimes becoming entangled with it. Jürgen Klauke has had a profound influence on the art of the late twentieth and early twenty-first-century. From 1993 to 2008, he was a professor at the Art Academy of Media in Cologne. (
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