Curriculum Vitae

• Born on April 14, 1939; Family from Danzig.
• Expulsion in 1945. Via Dresden and Leipzig to Erlangen.
• From 1955 to 1963, pupil of Christian Klaiber, a former pupil of Henri Matisse and Fernand Léger. Studies of history, philosophy and history of art at the University of Erlangen.
• From 1959 to 1960, paintings of his own accord from originals of Konrad Witz (”Die Verkündigung an Maria“; 158 × 120,5 cm; 1440-1443), of Rembrandt (”Paulus im Gefängnis“; 41 × 39 cm; 1627-1630), and of Dürer (”Porträt von Michael Wolgemut“; 29 × 27 cm; 1516); all of them in original sizes.
• Within the same time period, frequent visits to the restoration workshop of the ”Germanisches Museum“ in Nürnberg, in order to learn different craft techniques.
• Regular journeys to Italy, Scandinavia, Greece, Austria, Spain, the Netherlands and Argentina during his studies.
• From 1963 to 1966, studies and diploma at the ”Kunstakademie Berlin“.
• Lives and works in Andalusia from 1966 to 1969.
• Lives and works in Paris from 1970 to 1973.
• Lives and works in Cologne from 1973 to 1975.
• Final settlement in Paris in 1975.
• Regular work trips to Andalusia and Morocco.
• From 1990 to 1991, commissioned work for the city of Erlangen: ”Tag und Nacht und Nacht und Tag I“, four slabs, 400 × 290 cm each.
• Receives the arts price of Erlangen in 1991.
• Since then, makes it his task to bring painted slabs within larger rooms into resonance.
• ”Tag und Nacht und Nacht und Tag II“, four slabs (400 × 280 cm each), owing to the support of the ministry for the arts (”Allocation de recherche de la Délégation aux Arts Plastiques“) in 1995.
• ”Gehöft“ between 1995 and 2002; four slabs (400 × 266 cm each) twice, three slabs (431 × 226 cm each),and one slab 540 × 408; cm oil on canvas, on wedge-shaped frame.
• Between 2002 und 2003, ”Lichtbäume“; 4 slabs (400 × 80 cm each).
• Between 1997 und 2002, creation of ”Bücher“ (73 × 100 cm), that is books where text, writing and illustration come into resonance with each other. It's about collections of poems by Paul Celan: ”Zeitgehöft“ as a whole, excerpts of ”Die Niemandsrose“ and of ”Lichtzwang“, ”Engführung“ as a whole and other excerpts of ”Sprachgitter“ and ”Atemwende“.
• From 1997 to 2000, new large resonance room: ”Mühle“, 4 slabs, 350 × 308 cm each, purchased by the art museum Liechtenstein in 2004.
• From 2001 to 2005, new resonance room: ”Cavatina“, 4 slabs (333 × 390 cm each).
• From 2002 to 2004, ”Cortijos caidos“, Andalusia.
• Since 2003, creation of a new resonance room: ”Amgheid“, 9 slabs (480 × 270 cm each).
• New project since 2005: ”Yeelen“.
• Regular exhibitions since 1959.

Public and Private Collections:

• Fonds National d'Art Contemporain Paris
• Musée d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou
• Art museum Liechtenstein
• Collection Peter Stuyvesant Amsterdam
• Ludwig Múzeum Budapest
• Bred
• Collection Ludwig Aachen
• City of Erlangen
• Ville de Paris
• L'Arche de la Défense Paris
• Collection Hamon
• Mezzanin-Stiftung
• Sammlung Dr. Peter Monauni
• Collection Lindenberger