| last name: | Jaeger |
| first name: | Gottfried |
| also known as: | Gottfried Jäger |
| birthday: | May 13, 1937 |
| birth-place: | Burg (Germany) |
Gottfried Jäger is a german photographer and profossor of photography. Through his works Jäger has crucial contributed that photography has become equal-ranked to painting and sculpting.
Already in 1968 Jäger was entitled to characterise photography as art form, – consequential “Generative Fotografie” accrued.
| 1960 | lecturer for phototechnology at the Werkkunstschule in Bielefeld. |
| 1973-2002 | professor of photography, in particular artistically fundamentals of photography and photographik /generative imaging systems at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld. |
| since 1979 | co-founder of Foto-/Film-Design course, which became 1999 Fotografie und Medien. |
| since 1979 | conception of Bielefelder Symposien about |
