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Here you find some paintings not fitting to the motive groups, as well
singular paintings as small cycles. Sometimes I felt the need to react
with a painting to political events or environmental problems, though I
never believed things could be changed by art.
acrylic, 1980
acrylic,1980
1979
on acrylic, 1980
acrylic, 1981
1981
acrylic, 1979
acrylic, 1981
on acrylic, 1980
I know, criticism of daily politics and society isn't my domain, but some times I feel the need to react to
the events happening around me. These paintings I dedicate to the painter Jerg Ratgeb (ca 1475 -
1526). Ratgeb wasn't only a genial artist, but a very social engaged man, not theoretically but in acting.
He risked his career to marry a serf and in the great Peasent War in 1525 he took the exploited farmers
party. Though he hadn't hurt any person he was cruelly executed, when the riot was defeated.
acrylic, 1977
acrylic, 1993
acrylic, 1976
but also as humiliation of women or even in our daily traffic. In Germany the death toll rises extremely on
holiday weekends like Eastern. The precautionary measures against the terror of violence are not always
convincing...
1987
acrylic, 1972
1987
which led to a painting are fading
away like those of the great year
1992. Consumption is related to the
plan of a warehouse chain to
overbuilt a Jewish graveyard
showing a tombstone with the first
Psalm engraved and covered by all
kind of consumption goods.
acrylic, 1991
acrylic, 1992
on acrylic, 1990
was related to the end of the first Golf
war and unfortunately has remained
rather actual. So violence in the Middle
East.