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“I only show you reality” Peter Klasen

The German artist, painter, photographer and sculptor Peter Klasen was born in Lübeck in 1935. A master of contrasts, he is fascinated by the hostility of the modern city and by the way the body is portrayed as a commodity.

Peter Klasen grew up in a family that appreciated the arts: his uncle Karl Christian Klasen, a pupil of Otto Dix, was an expressionist landscape and portrait painter and his grandfather, patron and collector, introduced him to the world of painters who were friends of the family. Peter Klasen therefore began to draw and paint at a very early age. He discovered the techniques of lithography and airbrush, while books by Dost