BIOGRAPHY
After working as an engineer for some years, I decided to quit and to become an artist / sculptor, finally studying at Art Academy Düsseldorf. My teacher Magdalena Jetelvá encouraged me to be concerned back with my own story. This lead to numerous free art cooperations with industrial enterprises inside factories in Germany and the USA, a quite unusual circumstance. My studio work is mainly concerned with big terracotta sculpture and the traces of its genesis, especially black firing with soot. I did lectureships and guest professorships at art institutes, before I taught as a professor at HS Niederrhein for 20 years.
CV
1956 born in in Germany
until 1984 engineer in process technology, Rosenthal AG
1989-1993 studies of fine arts, Art Academy Düsseldorf, sculpture at
class Magdalena Jetelová
1990 first prize “Art in Rhineland-Palatinate” for sculpture
1992-1997 lecturer at UdK Berlin art academy
1996-2020 realisation of 9 free industrial cooperations, each with grants
or fundings
2002-2022 professorship at HS Niederrhein, Krefeld
since 1988 single shows and group shows in Germany, USA, Spain,
Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Poland
STATEMENT
My artistic issue is to create a sensitivity for our state between nature and self created technical worlds and its impacts to our lifes. Besides others, I am working manually with terracotta and its processing traces, right up to 3D-printed objects from technical ceramics silicone carbide. In those industrial cooperations, I try to bring a human perspective back into the anoymous serial production processes.
