Timeline

1953

Born in Leipzig

1973 - 1977

Studied painting and graphics at the College of Graphic Design and Book Art, Leipzig

1978 - 1980

Advanced studies with Gerhard Kettner at the Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden

1979 - 1980

Advanced studies at the F+F School of experimental Design Zürich

1980 - 1991

Lectureship at the Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden

1987

Award at the exhibition "Schönste Bücher der DDR" for the book "This Side Of The Truth-lithographs to poems by Dylan Thomas"

1988

Lecturer at the U.N.E.S.C.O. session "Art and the Electronic Culture" in Offenbach/Germany

Professor of Painting and Graphics

1989 - 1991

Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden

1990

Amongst the Founding Members of the "Union for an European Workshop of Art and Culture Hellerau" in Dresden

Since 1991 Guest teacher in colleges in Trondheim/Norway, Dortmund, Hamburg

1991

Resigned from the post of Rector. Left the teaching profession. Freelance artist in Dresden

1994 - 1995

Studio in Berlin

1995

Lithographs "IN THE GARDEN - for Van Morrison", edited as cassette

1999

Series of Portraits of the former German Chancellor Willy Brandt

2000 - 2001

Painted triptych for the altar of the church of Gelliehausen near Göttingen, TV documentary „Dorfbild mit Aposteln" (60 min), arte/NDR

2000

Moved to Berlin

TV documentary „Das Ende der großen Belehrung"(60 min), arte/zdf

2003 - 2004

Professor of Painting at the University Dortmund

2003

Portrait of the former German chancellor Willy Brandt for the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.

Professur an der Universität Dortmund

2004

Special Guest of the city Eisenach / Thuringia

2006

Portrait Johannes Rau, "Retrospect" (Nov 5th, 2006 - Feb 4th, 2007 in Meiningen and Kleinsassen)