Peter Klasen (born 1935 in Lübeck, Germany) is a German painter, photographer and sculptor.
After studying at the Fine-Arts in Berlin, he moved to Paris in 1959 and became one of the leading figures of the
New Figuration, alongside
Valerio Adami,
Erró,
Jacques Monory,
Bernard Rancillac and Hervé Télémaque. The staging of recurrent themes (industry, confined space and signage) and his "mechanized" technics (airbrush and stencils) contribute to the distancing from the subjects: containers, railings, road signs, locks…
