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Germany
Drawing, Ink on Canvas
Size: 31.5 W x 23.6 H x 0.8 D in
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Events and past occurrences are staged dramatically and stage-like, by means of sweeping up and down curves and exaggerated proportions. Animal figures, borrowed from Baroque hunting scenes, and the inevitable stag from the Biedermeier era are spectators in the midst of a frivolous and superficial hustle and bustle. The basic ideas of the Rococo are the ideal of the love of an individual and nature as a refuge of a dreamed Arcadia. The Latin saying "Memento mori", which in the Middle Ages was the motto of a monastic counter-movement against the moral decay of the Christian church in particular, means the remembrance of one's own mortality. In German, this saying can be rendered as "Gedenke zu sterben." In contrast to the ancient Roman "Memento moriendum esse" ("Remember that you are mortal"), with which generals were warned against hubris during their triumphal march in Rome, the medieval "Memento mori" calls man into self-reflection on his own existence and confronts him with the fact of his own finitude and transience. The certainty of one's own death, the certainty of the transience of earthly existence, is now one of the basic facts of human existence like hardly anything else - and a life mindful of one's own death, a life as if there were no tomorrow, means a very different life than the one lived in the feeling of endlessness according to the motto "tomorrow is also another day." At the same time, death as an existential phenomenon is given less and less space in our modern society. Mass death, which is consumed through the media and from a distance, is often accompanied by a tabooing of everything that makes one's own transience tangible.
Multi-paneled Drawing:Ink on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:31.5 W x 23.6 H x 0.8 D in
Number of Panels:4
Frame:Not Framed
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Germany
Since childhood I have been passionate about stories. Told in books, poems, pictures, comics and films. I always liked to go into the illustrated world of fairy tales, immersed in the most diverse stories with animals, plants, people, mythical creatures and spirits. Everything was possible and everything was fascinating. All these things fired my imagination. At school, in the less exciting subjects, my thoughts wandered out through the windows into the wide world that remained closed to me. A world with adventures in distant lands. With pen in hand, I let my thoughts run free and put them on paper. Also to the delight of some classmates, who followed each line with excitement. At the end of the lesson, they wanted to have the drawings. Since everything was just wildly jumbled drawings, I gave them out. But I wanted it to be more structured and a real story, without endless chases. So I watched movies on TV and wrote down the plot and partly also dialogues. From Sinbad to Prince Valiant, from Westerns to pirate stories, everything was there. I still experience these stories on hikes in the woods and on walks in the surrounding area. In the thicket of bushes and leaves, a wide variety of plots take place with many different protagonists. They are as exciting and varied as in my childhood. These encounters are transferred to paper or canvas and tell each viewer their own story. The year 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall also opened the borders of my future. Various activities and travels through Europe and America finally led me to Study. In 1996 I graduated as a graphic designer. Since 1998 I have been working as a freelance painter and graphic designer. Since 1998 I have participated in various group and solo exhibitions. Since 2017 I have been a member of the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler*innen Berlin e.V. (Berlin Association of Fine Artists). For the year 2019 I am intended as artist in residence for the Donnersberger art scholarship "Rural Encounters" in Rhineland-Palatinate. My artworks are in collections and private ownership in Germany, Luxembourg, USA and Japan.
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