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After a successful and enjoyable
academic career in the medical sciences I am happy and thankful now being
able to devote my full time and energies to a creative life in the
visual arts as an expressionist painter and sculptor. My wife and I
travel a lot in our van across beautiful America to catch impressions of
our great land and its people and their different ways of life and
heritage. Other travels take us overseas, and I always return
enriched and inspired, with numerous sketches and paintings to be
completed in my studios in Cincinnati, Ohio.
While
growing up in Austria, I've always had a great love for and
interest in the visual and performing arts dating back to my earliest
memories. In my late teens, I decided to divide the
focus of my studies between the natural sciences, art history,
and fine arts. During my ensuing academic career in
the medical sciences over the next forty years, I always took
along my sketch pad and travel set of watercolors in my personal
and professional travels all over the world so they would be available
at a moment's notice. In my fifties, I began to follow my
increasing desire to devote once again more of my spare time and
energies to the arts, taking art courses at the University of
Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Art Academy, Miami University, Oxford, and at the Anderson Ranch Art
Center in Snowmass, Colorado. Finally, I left academia for
a new life as a full-time artist.
What carried over from my former career
is my great love of teaching, the transmittal of knowledge, and
discussion. Upon invitation I have presented numerous art talks,
lectures and demonstrations at diverse forums such as the Museum of
Alabama, Cincinnati Art Museum, University of Indiana East, University of Southern
California, Hillel Gallery, at national and international health
science meetings, the Peruvian-North American Cultural Center,
Cincinnati Art Club, Dayton Society of Painters and Sculptors, and
Mason Art Association.
I also enjoy teaching studio painting to private students.
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