Georg Klusemann

Who was Georg Klusemann?

Georg Klusemann, was a prolific artist and a children's book author.

Although he died at only 38 years of age, Georg Klusemann left behind an extensive body of deeply original work.

Georg Klusemann belongs to a group of artists such as Werner Gilles, Eduard Bargheer or Gerhard Hoehme, whose work reflects their adoption of Italian culture. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Teo Otto, from 1962 to 1968, with Katharina Sieverding and Jörg Immendorff. After extensive travels to Spain, the Orient and Latin America, his work gained a clear original profile. Impulses from contemporary European Art can be traced to Joan Miró, Victor Vasarely, Giorgio Morandi or Domenico Gnoli, to Surrealism or OpArt. But the impulses are transformed and integrated into a unique concept that cannot be associated to any known current in Art. Critics have called him "Baroque", "Indefatigable and fantastic", "Arcimboldesque", "an oscillator between abstraction and realism, narrative and representation, elusiveness and application", or a "legitimator of computer art".