I have been born into a family of artists in Germany. They were musicians and painters. In my early teens I was impressed by cartoons in books for children and I experimented with drawing figures and inventing stories. A few years later I designed a community newsletter for young people with my own drawings. As my consciousness grew I not only did drawings but I also started to make colorful acrylic and oil paintings, either abstract or surreal. From early on I did not perceive objects as they appear to the superficial eye. I looked deeper...more