Timeline

1964

Born in Germany

1983 - 1985

Studies of Fine Arts at Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, USA

1987 - 1988

Scholarship from Austin College, Sherman, Texas, USA

1988

Bachelor of Arts, Austin College, Sherman, Texas, USA

1993

Scholarship from the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany

1994

State examination in english and art education from the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany

1998 - 1999

Art Award, category printmaking, Mainz, Germany

2000

Artist-in-residence, Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg, Germany

2001

Diploma in printmaking from Prof. Peter Lörincz from the Academy of Fine Arts Mainz, Germany

2004

Art Award, category painting, Dierdorf, Germany

2011

Member of the Künstler-Sonderbund, Berlin, Germany

2013

Albert-Haueisen-Art Award 2013, category painting, Jockgrim, Germany

2014

Andreas-Art-Award, category painting: «Nature / Man», Harz National Park, Germany

2015

Art Award Eisenturm Mainz 2015, category painting, Mainz, Germany

2017

WIilhelm-Morgner-Award 2016, category painting, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, Germany

Honorable Mention, 10th International biennial of contemporary printmaking in Trois-Rivières, Canada

2018

Artiste-in-residence, Association les vendémiaires, Résidence d’Emma, Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers, France

Pfalzpreis for visual arts in the category of painting, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany

Since 1996 numerous lectureships for painting and drawing in international academies

Lives and works as free-lance artist in Germany and France