*1954
Member of the BBK Hamburg (professional association of visual artists)
Member of the art association for the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis e.V.

I am a freelance artist since 1983. Initially, paintings and drawings on classical substrates. In addition, black and white photographs.

From 1987 I turned increasingly to unconventional materials and techniques. The first pictures were created on acrylic glass and foils – painting surfaces, which I now devote myself exclusively. At the same time I made three-dimensional object subjects from found materials.

In 1978, during my studies in Hamburg (Illustration and Communication Design), I founded the poster group „*WERKHAUS*“ with a small group of graphic and art students.

In 1981, I conceived the slogan „Imagine it’s war and no one is going“ as a wall slogan. The photo of my graffiti on the wall of the bunker on the Heiligengeistfeld as well as my poster with the wall graphic went viral and made the slogan known beyond the borders of Germany.

In addition to my artistic work, I designed book covers and posters, worked in the 90s full-time as an art director and part-time as a depth psychological body therapist. After the turn of the millennium I worked as a web designer.

From 2003 I realized smaller solo exhibition projects in my own exhibition space in Hamburg. After a good course of a serious illness, I am since 2019 again working full-time as a freelance artist.

1975 – 1981

Studies and Diploma: University of Applied Sciences for Design, Hamburg (Prof.: Klaus Frank, Gisela Bührmann, Marianne Weingärtner, Jochen Blume)

1978

Founding member of the poster group „*WERKHAUS*“, Hamburg

1978 – 1985

Political posters and graphics, including conception and publication of the wall graffiti »Stell Dir vor, es ist Krieg und Keiner geht hin« (»Imagine it’s war and nobody goes.«)

1983 – 1994

First free artistic creative phase:
Painting and photography, various artistic projects and exhibitions:
– 1983 Kunstpreis Altona „Lebenssituationen“, participation, group exhibition, catalog.
– 1985 FABRIK Hamburg, group exhibition „Menschenformen“ (cooperation with Horst Gebhardt, Thomas Möller and Denis Brudna)
– 1986 Maison des Arts et Loisirs de Laon „aspects de la photographie demande“, group exhibition and catalog, curator: Claude Jacquot
– 1986 Fotogalerie moment, group exhibition „Schlaglichter – Schattenseiten“ (Johannes Hartmann, Thomas Möller, Horst Gebhardt)

1987

First works on transparent materials: Plexiglas and construction films. See also »Transparenzen«.

1989

1st solo exhibition, gallery artbeat, Hamburg.
„Walks from the left to the right hemisphere of the brain“ (title of the exhibition).