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# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Paul Klee, Joan Miro, Wassili Kandinskij, David HockneyFavorite movies: Ran, Dersu Uzala, Seven Samurai, Bladerunner
Favorite TV shows: none
Favorite bands / musical artists: Hendrix, Cream, Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Diana Crall, Andy Irvine and many others
Favorite books: Harry Potter, Fiasko, The invincible.....
Favorite writers: Stanislav Lem, Ray Bradbury
Favorite games: Fallout
Favorite gaming platform: None
Tools of the Trade: Computer, iPad and everything needed for painting, printmaking, papercraft
Other Interests: Shodo, sealcarving, making music
# About me
VITA1953 Born in West Germany
1971 - 72 Jobtraining in Retouching
1974 - 79 Academy of Fine Arts Berlin, painting and stage design
1982 married and left Germany for to live and work in Japan
Tokyo, practicing Aikido, Shodo, Zen and Hitsuzendo (Zen-practice with the Brush) studied printwork in Yokohama, exhibitions in Tokyo, Nagoya, Ube, Yokohama Instruc tor for German as foreign language, NHK-culture center, NHK- TV
1988 moved back to Germany, Jobtraining as Digital Operator (Photoshop-Retouche) and Webdesign.
Assitantships for Japanese, Chinese, German and Mexican Professors in Hamburg (Pen timent) and other summer-seminars
2002 Instructor for webdesign and Photoshop operating,
Courses and demontrations in papermaking and Sho in Hamburg, Flensburg and Neu brandenburg/Germany
Instructor for German as foreign language for Japanese, Hamburg
Foundation of my own enterprise „Japanstempel“ (Japanese art-seals)
2006 moved to Nagano/Japan, to live here as artist
2010 foundation of my workshop-gallery (Pegasus Gallery)