# Jürgen Klauke artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/jurgen-klauke/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:14:11.072Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Movements: Performance art, Staged photography, Minimalism, Surrealism
- Common media: Photography, Performance

## Portrait

![Jürgen Klauke](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/J%C3%BCrgen_Klauke2.jpg)
Tom Ordelman Thor NL · CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J%C3%BCrgen_Klauke2.jpg

## About Jürgen Klauke

Jürgen Klauke (born 1943) is a German artist, photographer and performance artist closely associated with staged photography and the use of his own body as an image-making subject. Authority records from Wikidata and VIAF identify him as a German photographer born in 1943, while VIAF also describes him as a performance artist. Public biographies trace his body-centered photographic practice to the 1960s and state that he has lived and worked in Cologne since 1968. His images and performances examine self-presentation and social norms, especially gender roles and sexuality; published accounts also connect parts of his practice with minimalism and surrealism. Collectors therefore encounter Klauke chiefly through photography and material connected with performance-oriented practice rather than through one conventional genre. Museum and authority profiles, including MoMA, Getty ULAN and VIAF, provide stable entity references that help distinguish his work and name variants across collections, catalogues and auction records.

## Common works and media

The available sources most strongly support photographs and performance-based work. Commonly relevant imagery centers on Klauke's own body, staged self-presentation, gender roles, sexuality and challenges to social conventions. An appraisal should establish whether an object is a photograph, documentation connected with a performance, or another work type before selecting comparable auction records.

## Market and appraisal context

Klauke's market should be assessed work by work, beginning with the object's medium, date, format and relationship to his documented staged-photography and performance practice. Photographs and performance-related photographic material should be compared with genuinely similar works rather than treated as interchangeable. Condition, dimensions, provenance and edition information require verification from the object and its documentation. Appraisily records provide a starting point for reviewing sale dates, realized prices and comparable lots when available, but the collected source pack contains no usable major-auction-house lot analysis. Auction results should therefore be treated as historical evidence rather than a price forecast or proof of attribution.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices and comparable lots when those records are available. Each object still requires independent review of attribution, medium, condition, provenance and documentation.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179303
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/84027370/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500085671
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/18996
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Klauke
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Klauke
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Klauke
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jurgen-klauke/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J%C3%BCrgen_Klauke2.jpg