Artist Profile: Jörn Kaspuhl

Jörn Kaspuhl was born in Stade (near Hamburg, Northern Germany) in 1980. In 2002 Kaspuhl moved to Hamburg and started his education in Illustration at the Department of Design located at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg. Before his graduation in October 2008 he gained widely experience in working as a freelance illustrator for several international magazines, publishers, musicians and fashion-labels. Since starting his commission work in summer 2006 his client list is continuously growing, including such names as The New Yorker, Nylon, Monocle, GQ, The Independent, Wired, idN, Die Zeit, SZ Magazin, Der Spiegel, The Folio Society, Random House or Taschen. In February 2009 Kaspuhl joined the list of artists represented by the international illustration agency Dutch Uncle with offices in London, New York and Tokyo. Switching between commission assignments and private projects Kaspuhl is situated in his small studio nearby the beautiful harbour sight of Hamburg. The main focus in Kaspuhls illustrations lays in the handmade drawing. Out of bold and clear lines he expresses his ideas with ink and pen by shaping each image out like a woodcut. With regard to content many pictures have a closeness to animals and nature elements itself. Interwoven organic forms and patterns catch his interest as well as the simplest shape of things.