Peter Klasen

Peter Klasen is a prolific German artist who has created remarkable works of art for over 50 years. His lithographs and some original canvases are now available on Kazoart! His universe stands out for the recurring presence of industrial elements which he brings together in expressive and colorful works. A junction passionate about the industrialist in 1935 in Lübeck in Germany, Peter Klasen is a painter, photographer and German sculptor. Klasen is growing in an artistic environment. His uncle, pupil of Otto Dix, painted landscapes and expressionist portraits. His grandfather, collector, presents it to painters. Very young, he draws and painted, learns lithography and airbrush. The writers Dostoyevski, Kafka and Thomas Mann influence it. The industrial theme deeply marks his work. We find in its paintings characteristic industrial elements: Manometers, sheets of public works, metal locks, tarpaulins of trucks and wagons or even hydraulic circuits. Logos, figures, posters or magazines photos also make up his works. Be Klasen: Precursor of the new figuration "& nbsp; Real is nothing other than what I show you & nbsp;" - Peter Klasendans the 1960s, Peter Klasen was among the precursors of the artistic movement called new figuration or narrative figuration. He is interested in the images used by the mass media and strives to denounce, by his pictorial metaphors, the standardization of the Western living environment. He seeks to understand the influence of images on individuals and to show the dynamics between the image and its context. For him, an image can only be understood in connection with the environment in which it is produced and perceived. He seeks to reveal the mechanisms of the image and to find a new pictorial language. Considered as a master of contrasts, Peter Klasen is fascinated by the hostility of the modern city and by the representations of the body to the state of merchandise.Klasen creates "& nbsp; Rencontres tables & nbsp;", mixing cut and painted images. He joined the fragmented image of a female body, borrowed from advertising, cinema and magazines. His paintings refer to a fragmented reality, with objects of consumption, seduction and medical objects.