Timeline

1977

Born in Saarbrücken, Germany

2000 - 2004

undergraduate studies, Dresden Academy of Arts, Germany

2004 - 2010

Studied at Repin Academy of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2010

Award for Landscape Painting, Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia

First Prize at the Wyoming PleinAir, Cheyenne, WY, USA

Best-of-Show at the PleinAir-Rockies, Estes Park, CO, USA

2011

Award-of-Excellence at the the PleinAirRockies, Estes Park, CO, USA

award at plein-air competitions in California, Wyoming, Colorado

lecture at the Taos Historic Museum, Taos, NM

2012 - 2016

faculty member at the PleinAirConvention, Las Vegas, NV; Monterey, CA; Tucson, AZ

2012

Invited as a panelist/speaker to the 1st PleinAirConvention, Las Vegas, NV, USA

2013

award at plein-air competitions in California, Wyoming, Colorado

Certificate of Commendation, Russian Academy of Arts, for works presented at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in a retrospective exhibit of the Repin Academy

2017

lecture at the Coppini Academy of Art, San Antonio, TX