The Cologne author and film producer Werner Krüger made portrait photographs of artist for decades. Always he accompanied the artists for a long time, watching and analyzing the artist and his work in order to show the specific temperament and attitude. Thus, his approach is very personal.
In 1999, we showed the portfolio "Output", containing 40 black/white photographs, each signed by Joseph Beuys, that has been produced by Werner Krüger while turning the movie "Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler" during the seventies (1971-78). In summer 2003, we presented the series of photographs that Werner Krüger took end of the seventies / beginning of the eighties of and with Andy Warhol.
Besides the portraits of Andy Warhol and of Warhol discussing with Beuys, there are photographs of the silk-screen prints by Warhol. All photographs are signed by Andy Warhol as proof of his identification with the work of Werner Krüger.
Similar to Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol accepted very early every medium in art. The photographs reflect the specific extended understanding of art as cooperation, collective action and synergy. Especially in his highly thinking of photography, Andy Warhol is a pioneer of the later following boom of photography as independent and self valued artistic expression.
