Bio


Klaus Schnitzer
Professor Emeritus, Montclair State University, Department of Art and Design
 
M.F.A., Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, 1971; B.A., Social/Political Science, SUNY at Albany, 1967

Klaus Schnitzer’s exhibition career consists of over 200 regional, national and international shows. As a visiting artist he has lectured and taught at, among others, the Chicago Art Institute, Tyler School of Art and Haifa University (Israel). Consulting work includes MIT’s Car Consortium/Media Lab, Polaroid Corporation and the National Park Service.

He has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant, 16 grants from Montclair State University, four from the Polaroid Foundation, and four from the NJ Council on the Arts.

Klaus Schnitzer’s work can be found in numerous private collections as well as in the Museum of Modern Art, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the Polaroid International Collection and BMW NA.

He has over 110 magazine covers to his credit as well as many book covers.

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Contact: schnitzerphoto1@gmail.com