{"id":1398,"date":"2026-03-19T09:38:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramic-art.de\/?page_id=1398"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:39:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:39:57","slug":"lebenslauf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/panoramic-art.de\/en\/lebenslauf\/","title":{"rendered":"CV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in 1960 in Hamburg<br>Grew up in the Bergisches Land region<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1979 High school diploma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1981-1983 Training as a photographer,<br>Lette School (crafts) and<br>Photography workshop in Berlin-Kreuzberg (art)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1982 Trip to Australia, Highway 1<br>from Melbourne to Cairns<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1983 First exhibition in Bensberg Town Hall<br>\u201ePortraits and Moo-Picture-Press\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1982 Beginning of the practice of Rinzai Zen at the Mumon-Kai Dojo, Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1983-1985 Sinology studies in Cologne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1984 Work in video production at the advertising agency McCann-Erickson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1984-1985 Worked in the industrial film production company KPM; the production involved trips to Kuwait and Thailand, Venezuela and Guatemala<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1985 Exhibition at the \u201eGalerie Sangermann\u201c, Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1985-1987 After completing my Master&#039;s degree, I spent time in Japan, the Republic of China, and traveled in Red China and Tibet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1986 Beginning of Aikido<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1986 exhibition in Taipei \u201eJiou Zai Gou\u201c a valley in Tibet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Self-employed as a photographer since 1987<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1988 first trips to Sicily<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1989 work on gardens in England<br>Start of the work \u201eNatural Structures\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1990: Start of a project about artists in Dresden, documenting the situation of artists who had worked outside the state art establishment.<br>Portraits in the studios as a recording of the status quo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1991 Exhibition in Dresden \u201eGalerie Nord\u201c<br>\u201e&quot;The Portrait&quot;\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1992 first stay in the USA,<br>New York and Washington<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1993 Exhibition in Cottbus<br>\u201eB53\u201c Artist Portraits<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1993 Trip to Kham, East Tibet,<br>today part of Sze-Chuan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1993 Trip to Tunisia for Lufthansa<br>Following in the footsteps of Klee, Macke and Moillet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1994 work on castles in Sicily \u201eCastelli in Sicilia\u201c in large format 8\/10\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1994 Exhibition in Leverkusen on the topic of &quot;Tibet&quot;\u201e<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1994 1st trip to Sapmi, work on the Sam\u00e9, the last indigenous people of Europe, Northern Scandinavia \u2013 Lapland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1995 \u201eTibet\u201c exhibition in Cologne City Hall on the occasion of the visit of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1996 Documentary in Jerusalem about the construction of a cross on the dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1996 Trip to Tibet, Kham and Lhasa Overland to Nepal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1996 2nd-3rd trip to Sapmi, work on \u201eArctic Cowboys\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1997 Stay in the USA, California, LA. Collaboration with photographers Donald Dietz and Douglas Kirkland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1997 Collaboration with D. Dietz in Hong Kong \u201eHandover\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1998-1999 Work on the book &quot;Castles in Italy&quot;\u201e<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1998 work in Valais about snowboarding (also waterfalls)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1998 work on Maui, Hawaii about windsurfing (bamboo next to it)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1998 work on the architecture of the Expo in Lisbon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1999 exhibition in Bensberg at \u201eKoehler Hering Neumann Luxem\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1999 work in the Seychelles, where \u201ePalms\u201c were created\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2000 Trip to Lebanon and Syria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2001 Group exhibition in Karlsruhe \u201eArt in the Regional Court\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2001 Exhibition in Bergisch Gladbach \u201eKursana\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2001 Scholarship from the VG-Bildkunst Cultural Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2002 Exhibition at the \u201eQuattrium\u201c in Ratingen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2002 Exhibition at &quot;ACT&quot; in Cologne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2002 Trip to Masuria, start of work on \u201eBrachland\u201c there\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2003 Exhibition at &quot;Agora&quot; in Hamburg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2003 Exhibition in the Kulturbunker in Cologne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2004 Exhibition at R&amp;L in Hamburg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2004 Exhibition at AON in Hamburg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2004 Exhibition at GE-Capital in Neuss<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2004 Exhibition at AON in M\u00fclheim<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2004 Exhibition at the Media Factory, Braunschweig<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2005 Exhibition at Dyck Castle, Grevenbroich<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2006 Exhibition at Doy\u00e9 and Neuhaus, Cologne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2006 Exhibition at the Pax-Bank, Cologne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2006 Work on the &quot;China Boom&quot; project in Beijing and Shanghai<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2007 Exhibition at von Zanthier, Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2008 Start of work on open-pit mining<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2008 Exhibition at the Rotonda Business Club, Cologne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2009 Exhibition at the ArtFabrik Gallery, Wuppertal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2009 Exhibition at the Allianz Academy, Cologne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2010 Exhibition at A24 TBG \u201eZeitzeichen\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2010 Exhibition at the Federal Highway Research Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2011 Exhibition at Deutschlandfunk Cologne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2011 Exhibition at Sarasin Bank, Cologne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2011 Exhibition Karlsruhe Regional Court<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2012 Exhibition IHK Cologne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2013 Funding from the F. Victor Rolff Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2013 Exhibition at Ernst&amp;Young Cologne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2013 Exhibition at the ArtFabrik Gallery, Wuppertal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2014 Exhibition at the MVZ, Venusberg, Bonn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2015 Exhibition in the Glass Pavilion Rheinbach<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2015 Exhibition at the E-Werk Cottbus \u201eOpen-cast mining\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2016 Exhibition at the VHS Bergisch Gladbach<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2017 Exhibition at Schaelpic Cologne \u201eBlackbrook\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2018 Group exhibition Hope and Solidarity with Gerhard Richter and others, Cologne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2019 Exhibition at Dyck Castle \u201eGarden Focus \u2013 Genius Dyckensis\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2019 Group exhibition in Burg Gladbach \u201eSnow White\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2019 Group exhibition at L\u00fcntenbeck Castle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2019 Group exhibition at Galerie \u201eIns Blaue\u201c, Remscheid \u201eThe Forest and the Storm\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I want my pictures to bring joy and strength to the viewer.<br>The greatest compliment for me would be if people went to the exhibition and, inspired by the pictures, said, &quot;Now I have to go back into nature and take a closer look at this.&quot;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramic-art.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lebenslauf-40-50-2024-1024x819.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramic-art.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lebenslauf-40-50-2024-1024x819.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/panoramic-art.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lebenslauf-40-50-2024-300x240.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/panoramic-art.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lebenslauf-40-50-2024-768x614.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/panoramic-art.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lebenslauf-40-50-2024-15x12.jpeg 15w, https:\/\/panoramic-art.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lebenslauf-40-50-2024.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born 1960 in Hamburg\nGrew up in Bergisches Land\n1979 Abitur (university entrance qualification)\n1981-1983 Trained as a photographer, Lette School (craft) and Workshop for Photography in Berlin-Kreuzberg (art)\n1982 Trip to Australia, Highway 1 from Melbourne to\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_customify_content_layout":"","_customify_sidebar":"","_customify_page_header_display":"default","_customify_disable_header":"","_customify_disable_header_top":"","_customify_disable_header_main":"","_customify_disable_header_bottom":"","_customify_disable_page_title":"","_customify_disable_content_vertical_padding":"","_customify_disable_footer_top":"","_customify_disable_footer_main":"","_customify_disable_footer_bottom":"","_customify_breadcrumb_display":"default","_customify_header_transparent_display":"default","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1398","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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