Life is, what happens to you,

I studied journalism together with sociology and a little pedagogic and psychology. I started with classical black and white photography, had some exhibitions and won a prize. Because it was impossible to live on that, I worked as free-lanced photographer for German newspapers, later on for book-publishers in the educational sector.

I met the good times for photographers, when I worked for publishers and illustrated books. They used to send me the manuscript and just told me, how many pictures they would need (mostly between 40 and 70). 4 or 5 weeks later I sent them 25 or 30% more than they needed. I wrote comments on the pictures, often with differences to the text. My publishers welcomed this as a plus, accepted me as co-author and paid me royalty on every reprint.

Now the creativity has moved from the photographers to the layout-men. Lucky guys. They swim through the terrific ocean of picture-agencies and grab, what they like.
Not that I blame them. Since prehistoric times we have to eat something else, when our favorite food dies out, of course.

My bread and butter now is
- to take photos influenced by the impressionism of Claude Monet
  and the expressionism of August Macke or E.L. Kirchner.
- to paint oil on canvas influenced by the informel
- to create pictures by mixing the medias in my own unique way.

I hope you like my work.