Yussof Knauss

Yussof (Jürgen) Knauss, born in Darmstadt in 1938, trained lettering and graphic artist. Exhibitions in Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Kitzbühel and Venice. From 1964 to 2014, Yussof Knauss worked as a layouter, creative director, managing partner and finally as a chairman for the advertising agency Heye. In 1994 he was awarded the German advertising industry as a man of the year. In 1989, after the death of F. W. Heye, he and his wife Claudia, also responsible, took over the Heye Verlag. Until their departure in 2012, they led the publisher and made it the largest calendar publisher in Germany by fusion. During this time, his passion, photography, several books and calendars were created that have received several awards. Yussof Knauss photographs with a careful view of the world that surrounds him. Be this when traveling to the southern end of this world, according to Patagonia; Or at the southern end of his world, in Seeshaupt on Lake Starnberg. Yussof Knauss lives with his wife in Munich and on Lake Starnberg.