Karl-Otto Jung (1938)

Karl-Otto Jung

Karl-Otto Jung is a German painter, graphic artist, university lecturer and art historian. He studied painting and graphics at the art academies in Munich, Düsseldorf and London. He first worked as an art teacher in Cologne before accepting an assistantship at the chair for drawing, painting and graphics at the Technical University of Darmstadt. In 1975 he received a professorship at the University of Education in Saarbrücken. A year later, it was incorporated into Saarland University. There, Karl-Otto Jung established a department for visual arts and art education. The works of Karl-Otto Jung can be assigned to modern realism. He is interested in "the depiction of reality drawn from the perception of the visible world, as it manifests itself in portraits, landscapes or still lifes". In addition to oil paintings and watercolors, he creates drawings and etchings. The artist is also an author. He has written several writings on art theory.