Peter Klasen

Peter Klasen was Born Lübeck, Germany in 1935. In 1955 he was admitted to the Beaux-Arts de Berlin where he followed a course by Will Grohmann, friend of Paul Klee. Peter went to Hans Richter's conferences (the protagonist of the Dada movement) and also those of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (Head of the Die Brucke following). He met young artists including Georg Baselitz and the photographer Benjamin Katz. In 1959 he assisted at the opening of the Documenta de Cassel and visited the exhibition dedicated to Wols (whom he discovered a few months before during an exhibition in Berlin). Then he moved to Paris; Each day from 6pm to midnight, he went to the Cinémathèque on the rue d'Ulm to watch Fritz Lang and Murneau's films. He also discovered the nouvelle vague française, the Italian neo-realists and the Shodox by John Cassavetes at the Biennale de Paris. He currently lives and works in Paris.

Peter Klasen Images:
Angouleme, 1985
Klasen-1983
Klasen-L’Art Vivant No. 1