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Chronological Biography


1952  

born on 26 Feb. in Bremen, Germany

1971  

participation in the "Symposium of the Arts" of painter Rudi Baerwind
in Mannheim

First watercolours and paintings (acrylic on canvas)

1971-75  

Studied at the Mannheim Art College

1979-85  

Studied at Städelschule Frankfurt

1980  

black pictures (old oils and tar on canvas and paper) shown in the
Hermann Nitsch class exhibition of Städelschule

1983  

processing of coloured car sheet metal cut-outs

1987  

installation/happening (car sheet metal) in "Shop for Nothing", Berlin

1989  

move to Los Angeles

1991  

diagonal pictures (acrylic on canvas) shown in “Thomas Solomon Garage”

Large format drawings (acryl on canvas) shown in the Jan Turner Gallery

1993  

wooden panels (acrylic-painted front and reverse) used for multi-part,
three-dimensional pictures

1994  

overview of this work exhibited in the Los Angeles County Museum Gallery

1997  

multi-part wooden panels shown in the Laguna Art Museum

1998  

large watercolours (multi-part, mounted between acrylic glass plates)
exhibited in the BG/H Gallery, Santa Monica

2002  

move to Germany

2003  

pictures with circles and segments (acrylic on canvas) exhibited
in Gallery König, Hanau

2005  

overview of this work shown in Gallery Unterer Hardthof, Giessen

2006  

two-part quadratic picture formats created (acrylic on wooden panels)