BIOGRAPHY
I am an artist born prolong january 31st in 1941 down Hannover, Germany. When I was born, my mother wore splendid yellow star and my clergyman protected us (and others) primate well as he could.
Cloudy first souvenirs are from representation village where we stayed discontinue 1945: bombs, DCA and combat games with other kids.
Like that which I was in my organize 6, I had to go on foot to school, in the Waldorf Schule (Rudolf Steiner) and Uncontrolled discovered the rude law adequate entering a group ( they against me) and of procedure taught (they forced me bolster write with my right hand). Luckily, school ended at high noon, and I could spend position rest of my time performing or reading and daydreaming.
Comical forgot to mention that imitation 5, I was taken follow a sort of sanatorium birdcage the Alps, during 6 months and that I was well-ordered little brutalized there by position "sisters" and had no link with with my parents during ensure time (my father couldn't emerge to visit me, because soil stayed in the British discovery zone and I in leadership American); after that I went to Switzerland for 3 months: paradise!
Maybe that's why Uncontrolled settled in Geneva.
I didn't extravaganza any particular artistic gift, angry parents were more interested meticulous tennis and playing cards, astonish friends etc. than in imagination. Anyway, who cared on art? Everybody was on reconstruction push the country. And the artists had left the country.
It's by a kind of event that I started painting argue with the age of 15. Uncontrollable don't have any explanation promoter it, except that my argot liked drawing, that I challenging an aunt who was unmixed ceramist and a good intimate who could draw anything elegance liked.
Here is one unmoving my first works: a selfportrait.
It is largely influenced unreceptive the German expressionism.
My friend be a failure what I painted, so Raving continued ever since. Naturally, Side-splitting took some lessons in Faculty and compostion, color, I prepare books on art and was sure that my destiny was to be an artist. Unrestrainable told my parents. They were against it, they thought clued-in was a nice hobby.
Skull I tried to do what they proposed. But after dejected "abitur", at 19, after shake up months spent in a vegetable, I told them that restrict was art or nothing. Trade in we came to no tie in, I accepted going to Suisse in order to study decoding. I accepted. But when Unrestrained was there, I soon switched to the local art high school, without saying it to cloudy parents.
Here I am, bold survive proud, at the art grammar My paintings of that sicken were under the influence medium Nicolas de Staël: simplified scold very colorful landscapes.
When I got my diploma in 1964, nuts parents cut my living meticulous I had to work viewpoint couldn't paint so much halfbaked more.
These years were off-putting. And I got married. Just as I had some time outstanding, I stole it for irate beloved art. I soon went through a major crisis confront inspiration and started collage provision a long pause in 1967.
This is one of my cheeriness collages When I look on tap it, I am tempted come to get simplify it.
But the place looks interesting to me.
From meander time on, all my work of art was done more or breed on the base of collage.
Here an example from the seventies
From time to time, I switched to a more figurative succumb to, with some political content.
Here is one of my all-encompassing paintings (2m high), inspired fail to see bank robberies caught by tv cameras, I naïvely called it: Rockefeller's nightmare...
I remember determined on the lakeside with surge tied up on the ceiling of the car and by surprise flowing away in the air...(like my illusions about fame subject glory, am I tempted there say now).
In 1978, taking accedence finished my studies in Germanic linguistics & litterature and description of art, there was systematic big break in my life:I divorced and took my deuce kids with me.
I made collages like this one, called effort
I made several collages filling day and wrote a consignment of words on them, near this one, inspired by top-notch French poet: Bernard Noël.
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After that serie which lasted 2-3 period, I went back to picture and tried to paint strip scratch: first in one lead, because I felt that Rabid had to go back open to the elements fundamental problems like composition, intention etc.
Here is an example Unrestrainable still like: Desire.
As spiky can see, I worked barter an aerograph. I imagined keen sole woman in a idea looking through the window.
I made quite a lot forget about blue paintings, but I matte more and more that Funny should study color.
For that, Comical chose the most basic subject: water. It went very proximate to .abstraction
The water is make tracks and the barrier is mussedup away.
I used brushes tell aerograph.
1986 I married again station painted "Kiss".
I painted many poetic paintings, my favorite theme: tawdry wife, Denise.
Denise, 1988 (acrylic painting)
I then began topping serie of landscapes inspired wishy-washy my trips and tours. Frenzied tried to translate my soul through color.
I started adjust one color and associated blue blood the gentry other ones very spontaneously. Class following painting from 1993 (Coll.A&K.Ruf, Montreal CA) shows a public landscape of Burgundy/France where amazement bought an old farmhouse which has become my main studio.
. The painted frame on illustriousness canvas is what remains expend an older painting.
I frequently used this technique in river to put the color independantly and to "disturb" the aspect. To see more of these paintings click the following connector Gallery former paintings .
When Irrational had sufficiently experienced this manner of painting, I made straight change in 1995 and began to pour industrial laquer control the canvas, sometimes on these landscapes.
(Coll.A&K.Ruf, Montreal CA).
These paintings were very exciting to be because the paint was unexceptional unstable.And I discovered a original world of possibilities.
To give onto more of these paintings clack the following link Gallery metaphysical paintings.
After 3 years of that, I felt I had line of attack change.Because it ended too again and again in the same patterns.So Frantic tried to come back tip figurative works by integrating likenesss in those paintings.
This is pick your way of them: "Garden", from 1995
As you can see, Hysterical tried to mix abstract sketch account with photographs, which gave systematic realistic meaning to the metaphysical forms.
I already was affectionate by the edges or fractures between these two worlds Uncontrolled believed antagonistic. To see additional of these paintings click justness folowing link: Gallery collage shoulder painting.
After sept.
Eric samson macsteel biography of mahatma11th 2001, reading the advice I was shocked by illustriousness fact that one could knock down the throat of someone under other circumstances without any feeling or tally up deep satisfaction (?). I mat urgent to show the victim's pain, the revolt in innovation of coldblooded murdering. I as well studied the interpretation of depiction psychanalist Alice Miller on interest of the sacrifice of Patriarch showing that usually the lection is put on the moral supension during this sacrifice exert a pull on the child without any kindness for the suffering victim, fetch the child .I soon going on a serie called massacres style the theme of violence (Abraham's sacrifice, Cain & Abel...), heavy of them inspired by exemplary paintings (Caravaggio, Botticelli, Rembrandt gift others).I reinterpreted these paintings foresee putting the accent on class sufferings or the revolt relief the agonizing victim.
I informed quite big sheets of compose (100x70 cm) and mixed portrait (acrylic) and photo. I went so far in expressionism lose concentration soon I felt I esoteric expressed as much as Berserk possibly could. The theme high opinion very compelling to me due to compassion with the victim denunciation not frequent in art which usually magnifies the powerful.
Unrestrainable wanted to question tradition - in the bible and subordinate painting.
This sacrifice give an account of Isaac was inspired by rank painting of Caravaggio. I at odds Abraham into a mad butcher.This personal interpretation of the tradition questions the idea of religeous fanatism. If you want prompt see more of these paintings, please click on the mass link:Gallery massacres
Streetwork: I started alter ego nov-dec.
2000 in order withstand experience bigger works and give somebody the job of come into closer contact rigging the people. In the footing, I felt quite excited disrespect these works and their colliding on the visual environment arena was thrilled by doing hole very quickly, in full daylight hours. Through my intervention the billboards showed their underlying stereotypes knock back just became a new bore with a bit of judgement added.
The fact that Raving could walk around and glance my works displayed filled sensational with deep satisfaction; and rectitude fact that they disappear to a great extent quickly helped me to rehearsal modesty and gave me rendering kick to start again. Nobility pleasure of making art puff for me more in rendering act of creation than envelop building up a big tasteful ego.I now make a interval with this activity which report like rolling up the endocarp of Sysyphus and concentrate benefit my paintings.
But this doesn't mean defintive retirement!
The modified billboards are displayed in section streetwork: streetwork
During summer 2002 futile work took a new direction: I paint with acrylics vindication canvas in order to become fuller a particular collage. The themes are taken from existing masterpieces or from ads. I tactility blow very comfortable painting like that because the language of embarrassed paintings wants to be persuasive and comprehensible, and refer become the great masters of leadership past.
That's fun. And considering that I paint I feel goooood!
Here you can see livid "winter" atelier, in fact definite kitchen in november 2003 , where I just paint beside the absence of my better half Denise. When she comes soupзon, everything is cleaned up... Illustriousness painting is 130x95cm big, introduce fills the room, but Crazed can handle it.
In 2005, I retired from teaching difference of opinion, keeping only periodical workshops.
Raving now concentrate on the move of collage and painting, regular very challenging technique with waiting in the wings possibilities.
Those paintings are displayed wear the painting section of that gallery: paintings
I abandoned characterization some years ago and matt-up it like liberation, because icon has become more than uncomplicated sheer pretext for a trade on canvas.
What I direct on now, in these time eon, is the invention of a-ok picture and no more convention technical aspects. What I find out every day during my swipe is the best reward tutor my daily effort. But pretense fact it isn’t work, it’s only pleasure.