vita
Personal experience is the starting point for developing compositions. Each series begins with watercolour sketches on paper. They reflect sensory, emotional, and affective experiences of the nearby Black Forest and Kaiserstuhl as well as of travels to cultures outside Europe. In the studio, the watercolour sketches are worked out in oil on canvases of varying formats.
- 1949
- born in Bielefeld, Germany
- 1968–74
- English philology and textile design at the University of Münster
- 1974–76
- First and second state examination
- 1977–81
- Art education at the University of Bielefeld
- 1977–82
- Secondary school teacher
- since 1982
- Freelance painter, studio in Freiburg im Breisgau
- 1983–97
- Lecturer in adult education, Freiburg
- 2001
- Doctorate at the University of Cologne (aesthetic education)
- 2003–05
- Lectureship at the Institute of Arts, University of Education Freiburg
- 2006–09
- Chairwoman of GEDOK Freiburg
- 2010
- European Regio Prize for Fine Arts of the European Cultural Foundation Pro Europa
- Lives and works in Freiburg im Breisgau