Artwork

Not created for a purpose but for pleasure.

  • A in decay.
  • I am the president of a German wide calligraphy guild. When the first Covid lockdown started I wanted to send something encouraging to our members and came up with this quote: “Keep distance and stay close in your heart.”
  • Design of a riddle for a treasure hunt around downtown Aachen. Hidden in the chaos is the name of a public sculpture (two words) where you had to solve the next riddle.
  • “Phantasmagorial letters”: In fall the huge bat-ear Ws sail through the sky again.
  • Design of the name “Beate” as a birthday present for a friend. An exercise in three-dimensional letterforms which are arranged alternately in the front and in the back.
  • Sketch during a lettering workshop at the ecosign in Cologne, college for sustainable design.
  • This text by Charles Baudelaire is all about intoxication, literally and metaphorically.
  • Floating caps (Vita brevis ars longa).
  • My first sculpture in a woodcarving workshop: The shy/turned away Z.
  • An exercise in 3D letters, made out of wire. A lower case g.
  • “Du bist was du tust” (You are what you do) in one of my textures-script.
  • Ralph W. Emerson’s essay about “Self-Reliance” for me is one of the most essential philosophical texts. In this piece I collected the most important sentences of the essay.
  • A study in S, done in a workshop held by my great colleague Peter Thornton.
  • “Phantasmagorial letters”: FlourYshes in 3D.
  • “How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.”
  • This is a quote by Goethe about moment and eternity.
  • „German English at its best“. A series of funny postcards with German quotes translated (too) literally into English. Sorry, in English they make no sense at all. :-)
  • „German English at its best“. A series of funny postcards with German quotes translated (too) literally into English. Sorry, in English they make no sense at all. :-)
  • A text by Hölderlin from “Hyperion to Bellarmin”
  • An exercise done in a workshop held by my great colleague Peter Thornton.
  • An altered quote for a postcard.
  • “Phantasmagorial letters”: Mucor densserrae – rare brains mold that grows out of the perpendicular cytoplasmic pseudopods of the saw tooth strokes of a ruling pen. At some point the sporangia come off the stem and drift to a new nesting place.
  • A quote by Nietzsche.
  • The double d in “odyssey” is a play on words: For me creativity is an odd journey… The letters were drawn and then vectorized.
  • A second version of the quote done with a ruling pen.
  • A study in perspective; original size 6 cm.
  • “Right is of no sex, truth is of no color, God is the father of us all.” The complete quote done with the ruling pen in four colors. Height 30 cm.
  • “Right is of no sex, truth is of no color.” A quote by Frederick Douglass, the most influential Afroamerican of the 19th century. The letters were drawn, vectorized and laser-cut out of acrylic. They all touch each other to have just one piece.
  • A nonsense poem by Karl Riha where every letter is unique. That was great fun!
  • A progression from white to black with a text from Artur Rimbaud.
  • A poem by Rose Auslander about beauty of the rose that could be admired again after the war. The title “Versöhnung” (reconciliation) shapes the blossom.
  • A love poem by Rumi hidden in flourishes.
  • “Phantasmagorial letters”: g gets goin-g
  • “Phantasmagorial letters”: Perspecti-F
  • In this sculpture the letters X, Y and Z are intertwined. The Z is recognizable only mirrored.
  • “Phantasmagorial letters”: tWined & tWisted