Artworks

Painting as a data carrier of the present.

In an era of digital amnesia, I use oil paint—a slow, physically persistent substance—to illuminate the fractures in the fabric of the 21st century.

Availability and provenance are noted for individual works.

43 artworks found

Oil painting: Statue on a column in water, dark cloud, figures on shore, horse on a pier.

Eklektisches Rotkäppchen

2020 Oil on Canvas 100 x 120 cm

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Dark portrait of a crouching nude man wearing glasses, outlined with red lines on a grey-black ground.

Der Mann aus dem Nordkiez

2018 Charcoal, Chalk and Sanguine on Ink-primed Plywood 118 x 83 cm

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Sketch-like reclining figure on a bed, line drawing in reddish-grey tones on a toned ground.

Aphrodite

2017 Charcoal on Special Primer (on Canvas) 60 x 80 cm

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Farbige Figur in Unterwäsche, nach vorn gebeugt, starke Gelb-, Violett- und Blautöne auf hellem Grund.

Aphrodite III

2017 Oil on Canvas 80 x 60 cm

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Nude dancer in a backbend on a yellow background, strong light-shadow modeling, blue ground shadow.

Breathe

2017 Acrylic & Oil on Canvas 118 x 83 cm

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Athletic woman in black sportswear in motion, a bluish shadow figure behind her on a grey background.

Power

2017 Oil on Linen 118 x 83 cm

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Abstrakte Tänzerfigur mit schwarzen und roten Flächen, mit Tropfspuren, auf hellem grauen Hintergrund.

Water Dancer

2017 Oil on Linen 118 x 83 cm

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Painted head-and-shoulders portrait of a gray-haired man in a dark suit, three-quarter view on a green-gray background.

Kevin Spacey

2017 Oil on Canvas 60 x 42 cm

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Machiavelli

2017 Oil on Canvas 60 x 42 cm

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Gemalter Schädel in Pastellfarben auf dunklem Tisch, mit blauem und schwarzem Hintergrund.

Ceci n’est pas un Crâne

2016 Oil on Canvas 50 x 50 cm

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Painted head-and-shoulders portrait of a fair-haired man in a suit, with a blue-gray circle and dark diamond shapes.

Mr. Henry Ford

2016 Oil on Canvas 60 x 42 cm

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Szene mit drei Figuren und erhobenen Händen, schwebender Einkaufswagen, Reifen und Fernseher, links Skyline.

Genug Die Macht der Gier

2016 Oil on Canvas 100 x 140 cm

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Figurative Painting as an Interstice

The figure is the most direct confrontation with what we are: bodies in a world that increasingly treats bodies as data points. My work puts oil on canvas. Slow. Physical. Non-reproducible. No Ctrl+Z.

Themes and Series

The works revolve around power and its masks. The War Machine dissects the banality of industrial violence. Big Money Bauta shows the Venetian mask as a cipher for greed—or privacy, depending on the bank balance. The series Homo Sapiens asks more soberly: What remains of us when ideology is stripped away?

Portraits such as Mr. Henry Ford or Machiavelli are investigations. Ford, publisher of the antisemitic Dearborn Independent, is still traded today as an icon of entrepreneurial innovation. Machiavelli, often cited by the powerful, was himself penniless and dependent. My portraits scan faces in which history has sedimented. Digital Shamans (since 2023) examines archaic coping strategies for a present demanding different rituals.

Methodology

Oil is the counterpart to the body: buttery, durable, slow. The stroke varies—nervous and searching, powerful and expressive, depending on the rapport between the painting and myself. Open areas where the canvas shows through are skin beneath the plaster: points where another brushstroke would not perfect the painting, but kill it. Perfection is an illusion. I leave that to the machines.

Location

My works are created at B.L.O. Ateliers, Berlin-Lichtenberg. Studio visits by appointment