ABSTRACT
Born in Stassfurt in Germany, he studied painting 1952–5 in Brunswick after having begun his training in colour-chemistry. In 1956–7 he studied in Stuttgart, winning first prize in a portrait competition of the Stuttgart Academy. He was at the Slade School 1960–1, and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1962. Since 1963 he has lived and worked in Britain, apart from a period as Artist-in-Residence at Osnabriick in 1985. He has taught at Reading University (to begin with, lithography and etching) since 1964. His first one-man show was at the Galerie am Bohlweg, Brunswick, in 1962, and since 1970 he has shown regularly at Annely Juda and Juda Rowan. His work has featured in many national and international exhibitions: in group exhibitions such as ‘British Painting ‘74’ for example, or the selection of his major work from 1961 in the Landesmuseum, Oldenburg, 1988. His abstract paintings and floor pieces are intense and resonant in colour, often sprayed or smoothly graded, and expressive of his experience of light and space. His work is in the collections of the Arts Council, of Reading Museum, of the Landesmuseum, Oldenburg, the European Parliament and the Koh Gallery, Tokyo. Travel, in every continent, has been of vital importance to him.
