Klaus Jürgen Fischer - Düsseldorf Art Academy - "Group SYN" - 1963 litho - composition - signed

• Klaus Jürgen-Fischer (born October 23, 1930 in Hüls; † December 3, 2017 in Rastatt) was a German painter and professor of painting at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (1983–1995) and editor of several art magazines.

Klaus Jürgen-Fischer studied fine arts at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and at the Stuttgart State Academy of Fine Arts from 1949 to 1952, where he was a student of Willi Baumeister. After a six-month study period in Paris, he studied philosophy at the universities of Cologne and Stuttgart from 1953 to 1954.
Academic career From 1965 to 1971 he held teaching positions at the University Institute for Art and Craft Education, Mainz, and at the Städel Art Academy, Frankfurt am Main. From 1977 to 1978 he held a teaching position at the University of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe and then from 1978 to 1980 became director of the Institute for Fine Arts at the University of Karlsruhe. Magazines In the years 1953 to 1954 he and E. Walther were editors of the magazine augenblick (editor: Max Bense). From 1955 to 1984 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Das Objekt, Baden-Baden. In 1960 he founded the magazine Vernissage. In addition, from 1982 to 1984 he headed the editorial team of the quarterly art report of the German Artists' Association, and was elected to its board several times between 1971 and 1985. From 1996 he was President of the Association FORUM D'ART, Château de Vaudrémont near Colombey-les-Deux-Églises and a member of the Free Academy of the Arts, Mannheim. In 2011 he lived and worked in Baden-Baden and Château de Vaudrémont (Colombey les Deux Églises).