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Germany
Perhaps you may wonder, why my nightmare painting about Germany isn’t more
extensive, though I’ve spent there most of my time. Especially the Stuttgart area,
where I lived for forty years, is missing totally. But honestly: When you take
photos for your memory, don’t you also shoot more pictures from foreign places
than from your home area? It is as the German humorist and painter Wilhelm
Busch once rhymed:
“ Schön ist es auch anderswo “ It’s beautiful also otherwhere
Und hier bin ich so wie so.” And here I’m anyway.”
The one place I felt deeply connected to was the Bay of Eckernförde, where my
parents lived. This is shown on the pages “Brunnenbek” and “Altenhof-
Eckernförde-Schleswig”. Another place was “Eisenach”, which I got to know
short before the German Reunion. There I became witness of the uprising
resistance against the communistic regime and was fascinated and terrified by the
grade of its downtown dilapidation. All the other paintings are impressions of
places I came across traveling private or with my students. So don’t expect any
representative picturing of Germany! That never has been my intention.
extensive, though I’ve spent there most of my time. Especially the Stuttgart area,
where I lived for forty years, is missing totally. But honestly: When you take
photos for your memory, don’t you also shoot more pictures from foreign places
than from your home area? It is as the German humorist and painter Wilhelm
Busch once rhymed:
“ Schön ist es auch anderswo “ It’s beautiful also otherwhere
Und hier bin ich so wie so.” And here I’m anyway.”
The one place I felt deeply connected to was the Bay of Eckernförde, where my
parents lived. This is shown on the pages “Brunnenbek” and “Altenhof-
Eckernförde-Schleswig”. Another place was “Eisenach”, which I got to know
short before the German Reunion. There I became witness of the uprising
resistance against the communistic regime and was fascinated and terrified by the
grade of its downtown dilapidation. All the other paintings are impressions of
places I came across traveling private or with my students. So don’t expect any
representative picturing of Germany! That never has been my intention.
| Arber Lake II, Bavarian Forest, 1994 |
| Arber Lake I, Bavarian Forest, 1994 |
| Old Saw Mill, Bavarian Forest, 1994 |
| Rising Weather, Bavarian Forest, 1994 |
| Rising Weather, Bavarian Forest, 1994 |
| Eichstaett, Bavaria, |
| The Danube at Krems, Bavaria,1999 |
| Willibald Castle in Eichstaett I, Bavaria,1999 |
| Willibald Castle in Eichstaett II, Bavaria, 1999 |
