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German artist

Jürgen Klauke (born 6 September 1943) is a German artist.

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Beginning in the 1960s, he used his own body as a subject of his photographs.^[1] He also experimented with minimalism and surrealism. The ZKM in Karlsruhe exhibits his work.^[1] Since 1968 he lives and works in Cologne.^[2]

Klauke was born in Kliding^[3] near Cochem, about 70 kilometers southwest of Koblenz, in what became the postwar West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

He studied graphic arts at the Kölner Werkschulen from 1964 to 1970; toward the end of his studies, he began focusing on photography as a medium of artistic expression.^[4]

From 1994 to 2008 Klauke was professor of photography at the Kunsthochschule für Medien (Academy of Media Arts), in Cologne.^[2][3]

In January–February 2016 Klauke had his first solo gallery exhibition in New York City; the show, Jürgen Klauke, Transformer: Photoworks from the 1 Jürgen Klauke - Zander Galerie VUN