George Krause

George Krause (b. 1937, Philadelphia, PA) is an American artist photographer. George Krause is retired from the University of Houston where he established the photography department. During the 1950s, Krause studied painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography at the Philadelphia College of Art (PCA). While serving in the US Army between 1957 and 1959, George Krause turned his full attention to photography, spending all his free time documenting the culture of the black neighborhoods in the racially segregated communities of South Carolina. Krause later moved in a less documentary direction, seeking images that were more ambiguous and open to viewer interpretation with projects dealing with cemetery monuments, religious statuary, and an atypical series of nudes. In the volume "George Krause: A Retrospective" published in 1991 in conjunction with a major mid-career exhibition, Anne Tucker, the curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, observed: “Krause explores intensely personal themes rooted in basic human concerns: sensuality, mortality, and mystery....His work is perpetually relevant because his issues are basic and vital to the human condition. Few viewers leave his exhibitions unmoved—be it by indignation, horror, pathos, or wonder.” [George Krause: Universal Issues, Introduction by Anne Tucker, Rice University Press, Houston, Texas, 1991] George Krause's work has been collected by many institutions including Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY; the Library of Congress; the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris; the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Milwaukee Art Museum. George Krause currently lives and works in Wimberley, Texas.

Monographs----
*"George Krause: Universal Issues", Introduction by Anne Tucker, Rice University Press, Houston, Texas, 1991
*"Krause Roman", Afterword by Mark Power, Harris Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1991
*"Qui Riposa: Alternative Lives", Rosellen Brown and George Krause, New Haven, Connecticut, 1987
*"I Nudi", Mancini Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1980
*"George Krause 1", Introduction by Mark Power, Toll Armstrong Publishers, Haverford, Pennsylvania, 1972

Grants----
*Artist in Residence at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2007
*Artist in Residence at Tylee Cottage, Wanganui, New Zealand in 1997
*Texas Artist of the Year in 1993
*Cultural Arts Council of Houston in 1986
*National Endowment for the Arts, Filmmaking in 1985
*Unicolor Grant in 1983
*Photographer in Residence, American Academy in Rome National Endowment for the Arts in 1979-80
*First Prix de Rome in Photography Guggenheim Fellowship in 1976-77
*Bicentennial Commission, Philadelphia in 1975
*National Endowment for the Arts in 1973
*Philadelphia College of Art Alumni Award in 1970
*Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967
*Commission from Citizens’ Council on City Planning and the Philadelphia Foundation in 1966
*Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to Spain in 1963

References----

External Links----
* [http://www.georgekrause.com/ George Krause's website]
* [http://www.uh.edu/ University of Houston]
* [http://www.gallery339.com Gallery 339]