WORK

The first painting from my "blackandwhite" series ....

Not-colors in January-Berlin... a good reason to continue with my "blackandwhite " series. The "zebra" is my granddaughter's association.

This painting from the "blackandwhite" series could irritate the viewer's perception and - depending on the spatial distance to it- make different patterns visible. It's not just the white pattern and the black background that contrast with each other,but also the strict geometry with the handmade, irregular execution of tiny brush dots.

I In my series of dots I explore how small marks and small formats can create space . It is also a kind of rhythmic design.
The work is a kind of rhythmic design and a meditative process... it requires absolute presence.

No. 6 in my pointilism series

This painting was made in December 2022.'Holy shit' is the name of a Christmas Market in Berlin, which I had visited in this month.

the fourth painting of my 40x40 cm -dotpainting -series.
Its creation in December may have been inspired by all that beautiful red poinsettias.

When I was a child, my parents often went to the opera. I remember sitting on the bed in the master bedroom and watching my mother get dressed. The most beautiful thing was the eggplant colored dress with her pearl necklaces.

This painting is the partner of "necklaces". Together they made a pretty pair of jewelry...

The title is correct ...it is actually a training session for my left hand. I just started dotting with links until I realized, that firstly it was fun, secondly it worked well and thirdly it looked similar to old musical manuscripts. That's why I kept on painting.

This is no.2 of my paintings or drawings which remind me of old musical manuscripts. They also remind me of the absolute necessity of practicing regularly as a musician...

it happens that even after I have finished a painting I cannot find any associations... but my younger violin students always know a lot about it. In this case, a little boy explained to me, it was about a mountain range somewhere in the north... the first thing that comes to every musician's mind is the mountain king from Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite".

My painting is inspired by the song of the same name by singer Seal.
Thus it belongs to my now three-part series Musicals

This painting has been inspired by a kitchen accident:
a bag of millet broke and the grains scattered on my marble slab

A few days after completing this painting, I happened to find an old Nintendo Gameboy belonging to my now 37-year-old son in the basement. On it was the game "The Legend of Zelda" with the recurring challenge "lost woods". That's more or less how I see my painting.

Blues is a mixed media painting made with gouache, sand and splitter of (I don't remember).
Blue is a very mysterious calming and cooling colour. It lowers blood pressure and helps you fall asleep
...so don't place it above your desk !

This artwork was inspired from a lovely trip to Egypt. The contrast between desert and sea is hopefully recognizable... in between a strip of fertile land. It simply looked great!

In this series I worked primarily on canvas and used different materials for creating different surfaces . They changed from layer to layer and became witnesses of the past.

... another part of the series . I got the inspiration while looking at a white wall with yellowish moss. ... not particularly mysterious, but absolutely true.
Acrylic, wax, putty and tulle are a strange mix that I didn't know about. There were many surprises, some a bit tiring... the decisive inspiration usually often comes shortly before finishing, so the work process always remains exciting.

My association with this picture is brightly lit windows at night or in a dark season. It probably occurred to me while I was sitting on my balcony in a Berlin backyard at night. I really like this painting, because it was the first one in my then new studio.

This artwork has a funny origin story. I sometimes pressed Japanese paper into an undried canvas painting and ironed the whole thing with chips of beeswax. I removed the waxy leaves with iridescent colors from the canvas in odd strips and placed them in a new order on a new canvas with the iron.

This small white colourfield has been made with dripped shellac and poured acrylic paint. These two materials repel each other. so that the interesting islands stand out in the color.

This small grey colorfield, sister of "One of Two", is also made with poured acrylic paint shellac and glue.

The strongly contrasting colors and the decisive line come from a time when decisions had to be made... the picture perhaps an attempt to bring everything together.

Turquoise- Orange is my favorite contrast. For me the two colors represent fire and water. It has the same origin story as yellow and blue. Here too there is a decisive line and an overall attempt to harmoniously combine the two contrasting colors.

From 2020 onwards, more graphic elements have been added to the colorfields. The whole thing will lead to the dots series in 2022.

This is the first picture in my stripes series. While tidying up the studio, I found an old paint box with gouache and a box with oilsticks and just started working. The first three pictures were taken every month, all with a striped pattern and mostly in the same format. Until then, the choice of colors had been intuitive. From painting no. four it became clear, that the paintings had a seasonal reference, and that the whole thing could become a seasonal cycle.

In this stripes painting from 1.1.2014 I have tried to fix my gouache and oilsticks on a plastic ground.
Sometimes it appeals to me to make incompatible things compatible.

During my childhood I often went skiing with my parents in Tirol. If this took place in March, there was more meadow than snow on the run. I have tried to present this mixture here.

I hope everyone can see that I arrived in May by now.

Do you remember what it felt like as a child or teenager to be in the swimming pool with your friends in the middle of summer?
I remember the chlorinated turquoise water in the swimming pool, sunscreen, lightness and a lot of ice cream.

The time between summer and early autumn when the colors become duller...