Klaus Baumgärtner

Klaus Baumgärtner was born in Germany and trained in Switzerland. His practice included sculpture, photography, book design and typography. He photographed everyday things where he found them and made assemblages from such materials as twigs, blocks of wood and newspaper cuttings. He changed the objects as little as possible.

In 1984 Baumgärtner moved to The Hague to teach at the Royal Academy of Art. He taught visual art in the Interfaculty Beeld en Geluid. Fotomuseum Den Haag presented his photography in Sequence, and Kunstmuseum Den Haag showed his assemblages in Simple things.