About Drawing
Even as a child, I began drawing under the guidance of my father, an art glassmaker and stained-glass artist. From the 1970s onward, this developed into an academic study of nature, which became central during my interior design studies in Trier and ultimately formed the basis of my portfolio for art school at the Berlin University of the Arts (HdK Berlin). My teachers included Prof. Hans Borkam and Prof. Claus Steinmann in Trier, and later Prof. Wolfgang Petrick at the HdK Berlin.
After completing my art studies, I took on the role of drawing instructor myself in 1987: as an artistic and academic staff member at the Faculty of Architecture, I taught the fundamentals of sculpture and visual arts.
For me, drawing has always been a task of perception—a learning to see. Visible reality becomes the starting point for a graphic translation: a concentrated, almost meditative exploration with the eyes, which, via the brain, arm, and hand, culminates in the line of the pen on the paper. In addition to technical skill, spatial imagination and the ability to abstract develop from this process.
Over the years, my approach to the medium became freer, but the reminiscence of nature has always remained an integral part of my artistic worldview.