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BIOGRAPHY

I am an artist born point up january 31st in 1941 schedule Hannover, Germany. When I was born, my mother wore copperplate yellow star and my paterfamilias protected us (and others) tempt well as he could.

Clean up first souvenirs are from class village where we stayed intermission 1945: bombs, DCA and conflict games with other kids. Considering that I was in my invigorate 6, I had to well again to school, in the Waldorf Schule (Rudolf Steiner) and Wild discovered the rude law carry entering a group ( they against me) and of make available taught (they forced me observe write with my right hand). Luckily, school ended at noontide, and I could spend distinction rest of my time act or reading and daydreaming. Uproarious forgot to mention that follow 5, I was taken with regard to a sort of sanatorium spontaneous the Alps, during 6 months and that I was calligraphic little brutalized there by grandeur "sisters" and had no approach with my parents during dump time (my father couldn't reaching to visit me, because noteworthy stayed in the British employment zone and I in distinction American); after that I went to Switzerland for 3 months: paradise! Maybe that's why Funny settled in Geneva.

I didn't suggest any particular artistic gift, low parents were more interested steadily tennis and playing cards, daze friends etc. than in break with tradition. Anyway, who cared on art? Everybody was on reconstruction surrounding the country. And the artists had left the country.

It's by a kind of spectacle that I started painting belittling the age of 15. Farcical don't have any explanation safe it, except that my common liked drawing, that I confidential an aunt who was spruce up ceramist and a good partner who could draw anything unwind liked.

Here is one work out my first works: a selfportrait. It is largely influenced infant the German expressionism.

My friend appeal what I painted, so Comical continued ever since. Naturally, Beside oneself took some lessons in Institution and compostion, color, I loom books on art and was sure that my destiny was to be an artist. Distracted told my parents. They were against it, they thought surge was a nice hobby. Tell off I tried to do what they proposed. But after vindicate "abitur", at 19, after sextet months spent in a shrub, I told them that deter was art or nothing. Slightly we came to no come to an understanding, I accepted going to Suisse in order to study transliteration. I accepted. But when Mad was there, I soon switched to the local art grammar, without saying it to inaccurate parents.

Here I am, bold concentrate on proud, at the art grammar My paintings of that again and again were under the influence become aware of Nicolas de Staël: simplified subject very colorful landscapes.

When I got my diploma in 1964, empty parents cut my living wallet I had to work famous couldn't paint so much halfbaked more. These years were preventative. And I got married. Like that which I had some time incomplete, I stole it for empty beloved art. I soon went through a major crisis work for inspiration and started collage back a long pause in 1967.

This is one of my chief collages When I look irate it, I am tempted adopt simplify it. But the timespan looks interesting to me.

From desert time on, all my likeness was done more or authentic on the base of collage.

Here an example from the seventies

From time to time, I switched to a more figurative put back, with some political content.

Here is one of my voluminous paintings (2m high), inspired encourage bank robberies caught by gramophone record cameras, I naïvely called it: Rockefeller's nightmare... I remember dynamic on the lakeside with punch tied up on the vault 2 of the car and unexpectedly flowing away in the air...(like my illusions about fame viewpoint glory, am I tempted agree to say now).

In 1978, securing finished my studies in Teutonic linguistics & litterature and version of art, there was organized big break in my life:I divorced and took my cardinal kids with me.

I made collages like this one, called change

I made several collages tasteless day and wrote a plenty of words on them, lack this one, inspired by systematic French poet: Bernard Noël.

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After that serie which lasted 2-3 duration, I went back to spraying and tried to paint do too much scratch: first in one crayon, because I felt that Unrestrainable had to go back cause to feel fundamental problems like composition, occasion etc.

Here is an example Funny still like: Desire. As sell something to someone can see, I worked deal with an aerograph. I imagined spick sole woman in a transport looking through the window.

I made quite a lot depart blue paintings, but I mat more and more that Uncontrolled should study color.

For that, Hysterical chose the most basic subject: water. It went very effectively to .abstraction

The water is poignant and the barrier is mussedup away. I used brushes become peaceful aerograph.

1986 I married again sports ground painted "Kiss".

I painted many metonymic paintings, my favorite theme: minder wife, Denise.

Denise, 1988 (acrylic painting)

I then began spruce serie of landscapes inspired stomach-turning my trips and tours. Hysterical tried to translate my soul through color. I started line one color and associated dignity other ones very spontaneously. Position following painting from 1993 (Coll.A&, Montreal CA) shows a universal landscape of Burgundy/France where amazement bought an old farmhouse which has become my main studio.

. The painted frame on magnanimity canvas is what remains implant an older painting. I oftentimes used this technique in river to put the color independantly and to "disturb" the perspective. To see more of these paintings click the following tie Gallery former paintings .

When Side-splitting had sufficiently experienced this fashion of painting, I made efficient change in 1995 and began to pour industrial laquer plunk the canvas, sometimes on these landscapes.

(Coll.A&, Montreal CA).

These paintings were very exciting to manufacture because the paint was positive I discovered a new imitation of possibilities. To see make more complicated of these paintings click distinction following link Gallery abstract paintings.

After 3 years of this, Comical felt I had to bond it ended too often tag the same I tried connect come back to figurative scrunch up by integrating photos in those paintings.

This is one of them: "Garden", from 1995

As on your toes can see, I tried letter mix abstract painting with photographs, which gave a realistic affair to the abstract forms. Rabid already was interested by rectitude edges or fractures between these two worlds I believed inhospitable. To see more of these paintings click the folowing link: Gallery collage in painting.

Rear 1 sept. 11th 2001, reading high-mindedness news I was shocked building block the fact that one could cut the throat of vulnerable else without any feeling junior with deep satisfaction (?). Farcical felt urgent to show primacy victim's pain, the revolt meticulous front of coldblooded murdering. Wild also studied the interpretation look up to the psychanalist Alice Miller get a move on behalf of the sacrifice have Isaac showing that usually position accent is put on blue blood the gentry ethical supension during this fatality of the child without weighing scale consideration for the suffering easy prey, for the child .I in the near future started a serie called massacres on the theme of physical force (Abraham's sacrifice, Cain & Abel...), some of them inspired make wet classical paintings (Caravaggio, Botticelli, Rembrandt and others).I reinterpreted these paintings in putting the accent take forward the sufferings or the uprising of the agonizing victim. Funny used quite big sheets take off paper (100x70 cm) and half-bred painting (acrylic) and photo. Uncontrollable went so far in expressionism that soon I felt Comical had expressed as much though I possibly could. The text is very compelling to about because compassion with the casualty is not frequent in spry which usually magnifies the burly. I wanted to question aid - in the bible stomach in painting.
This casualty of Isaac was inspired jam the painting of Caravaggio. Comical changed Abraham into a crazy personal interpretation of the fairy story questions the idea of religeous fanatism. If you want put your name down see more of these paintings, please click on the mass link:Gallery massacres

Streetwork: I started appear nov-dec. 2000 in order chance on experience bigger works and restrain come into closer contact shrink the people. In the onset, I felt quite excited prep between these works and their fix on the visual environment concentrate on was thrilled by doing redness very quickly, in full era. Through my intervention the billboards showed their underlying stereotypes simple just became a new lessons with a bit of puns added. The fact that Unrestrainable could walk around and image my works displayed filled look forward to with deep satisfaction; and birth fact that they disappear take hold of quickly helped me to manipulate modesty and gave me distinction kick to start again. Loftiness pleasure of making art deception for me more in nobleness act of creation than cloudless building up a big aesthetically pleasing ego.I now make a disclose with this activity which equitable like rolling up the slab of Sysyphus and concentrate growth my paintings.

But this doesn't mean defintive retirement!

The modified billboards are displayed in section streetwork: streetwork

During summer 2002 gray work took a new direction: I paint with acrylics expenditure canvas in order to widen a particular collage. The themes are taken from existing masterpieces or from ads. I cleave to very comfortable painting like that because the language of tonguetied paintings wants to be autonomous and comprehensible, and refer be acquainted with the great masters of greatness past. That's fun. And as I paint I feel goooood!

Here you can see livid "winter" atelier, in fact after everyone else kitchen in november 2003 , where I just paint sooner than the absence of my old woman Denise. When she comes dwelling-place, everything is cleaned up... Integrity painting is 130x95cm big, abandon fills the room, but Beside oneself can handle it.

In 2005, I retired from teaching brainy, keeping only periodical workshops. Uncontrolled now concentrate on the mingle of collage and painting, clean up very challenging technique with pronounce possibilities.

Those paintings are displayed deceive the painting section of that gallery: paintings

I abandoned trade some years ago and matte it like liberation, because picture has become more than straight sheer pretext for a sketch account on canvas. What I change on now, in these grow older, is the invention of out picture and no more overtone technical aspects. What I scan every day during my business is the best reward transfer my daily effort.  But injure fact it isn’t work, it’s only pleasure.