Born in 1960 in Hamburg
Grew up in the Bergisches Land region
1979 High school diploma
1981-1983 Training as a photographer,
Lette School (crafts) and
Photography workshop in Berlin-Kreuzberg (art)
1982 Trip to Australia, Highway 1
from Melbourne to Cairns
1983 First exhibition in Bensberg Town Hall
„Portraits and Moo-Picture-Press“
1982 Beginning of the practice of Rinzai Zen at the Mumon-Kai Dojo, Berlin
1983-1985 Sinology studies in Cologne
1984 Work in video production at the advertising agency McCann-Erickson
1984-1985 Worked in the industrial film production company KPM; the production involved trips to Kuwait and Thailand, Venezuela and Guatemala
1985 Exhibition at the „Galerie Sangermann“, Berlin
1985-1987 After completing my Master's degree, I spent time in Japan, the Republic of China, and traveled in Red China and Tibet.
1986 Beginning of Aikido
1986 exhibition in Taipei „Jiou Zai Gou“ a valley in Tibet
Self-employed as a photographer since 1987
1988 first trips to Sicily
1989 work on gardens in England
Start of the work „Natural Structures“
1990: Start of a project about artists in Dresden, documenting the situation of artists who had worked outside the state art establishment.
Portraits in the studios as a recording of the status quo.
1991 Exhibition in Dresden „Galerie Nord“
„"The Portrait"“
1992 first stay in the USA,
New York and Washington
1993 Exhibition in Cottbus
„B53“ Artist Portraits
1993 Trip to Kham, East Tibet,
today part of Sze-Chuan
1993 Trip to Tunisia for Lufthansa
Following in the footsteps of Klee, Macke and Moillet
1994 work on castles in Sicily „Castelli in Sicilia“ in large format 8/10“
1994 Exhibition in Leverkusen on the topic of "Tibet"„
1994 1st trip to Sapmi, work on the Samé, the last indigenous people of Europe, Northern Scandinavia – Lapland
1995 „Tibet“ exhibition in Cologne City Hall on the occasion of the visit of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso
1996 Documentary in Jerusalem about the construction of a cross on the dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
1996 Trip to Tibet, Kham and Lhasa Overland to Nepal
1996 2nd-3rd trip to Sapmi, work on „Arctic Cowboys“
1997 Stay in the USA, California, LA. Collaboration with photographers Donald Dietz and Douglas Kirkland.
1997 Collaboration with D. Dietz in Hong Kong „Handover“
1998-1999 Work on the book "Castles in Italy"„
1998 work in Valais about snowboarding (also waterfalls)
1998 work on Maui, Hawaii about windsurfing (bamboo next to it)
1998 work on the architecture of the Expo in Lisbon
1999 exhibition in Bensberg at „Koehler Hering Neumann Luxem“
1999 work in the Seychelles, where „Palms“ were created“
2000 Trip to Lebanon and Syria
2001 Group exhibition in Karlsruhe „Art in the Regional Court“
2001 Exhibition in Bergisch Gladbach „Kursana“
2001 Scholarship from the VG-Bildkunst Cultural Foundation
2002 Exhibition at the „Quattrium“ in Ratingen
2002 Exhibition at "ACT" in Cologne
2002 Trip to Masuria, start of work on „Brachland“ there“
2003 Exhibition at "Agora" in Hamburg
2003 Exhibition in the Kulturbunker in Cologne
2004 Exhibition at R&L in Hamburg
2004 Exhibition at AON in Hamburg
2004 Exhibition at GE-Capital in Neuss
2004 Exhibition at AON in Mülheim
2004 Exhibition at the Media Factory, Braunschweig
2005 Exhibition at Dyck Castle, Grevenbroich
2006 Exhibition at Doyé and Neuhaus, Cologne
2006 Exhibition at the Pax-Bank, Cologne
2006 Work on the "China Boom" project in Beijing and Shanghai
2007 Exhibition at von Zanthier, Berlin
2008 Start of work on open-pit mining
2008 Exhibition at the Rotonda Business Club, Cologne
2009 Exhibition at the ArtFabrik Gallery, Wuppertal
2009 Exhibition at the Allianz Academy, Cologne
2010 Exhibition at A24 TBG „Zeitzeichen“
2010 Exhibition at the Federal Highway Research Institute
2011 Exhibition at Deutschlandfunk Cologne
2011 Exhibition at Sarasin Bank, Cologne
2011 Exhibition Karlsruhe Regional Court
2012 Exhibition IHK Cologne
2013 Funding from the F. Victor Rolff Foundation
2013 Exhibition at Ernst&Young Cologne
2013 Exhibition at the ArtFabrik Gallery, Wuppertal
2014 Exhibition at the MVZ, Venusberg, Bonn
2015 Exhibition in the Glass Pavilion Rheinbach
2015 Exhibition at the E-Werk Cottbus „Open-cast mining“
2016 Exhibition at the VHS Bergisch Gladbach
2017 Exhibition at Schaelpic Cologne „Blackbrook“
2018 Group exhibition Hope and Solidarity with Gerhard Richter and others, Cologne
2019 Exhibition at Dyck Castle „Garden Focus – Genius Dyckensis“
2019 Group exhibition in Burg Gladbach „Snow White“
2019 Group exhibition at Lüntenbeck Castle
2019 Group exhibition at Galerie „Ins Blaue“, Remscheid „The Forest and the Storm“
When I look at the ground glass screen, the question always arises: is this an image that, in a 100x300cm format, can still offer viewers something of value for 10 years?
I want my pictures to bring joy and strength to the viewer.
The greatest compliment for me would be if people went to the exhibition and, inspired by the pictures, said, "Now I have to go back into nature and take a closer look at this.".
