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December 2014 - The Christmas Tree
December 2014 - The Christmas Tree - Christmas is a festival with many symbols. The Christmas tree fascinated me even at a very young age. Not only because of its flickering candles that gave our living room a particularly wonderful... »read more

November 2014 - The thousand-year-old oak of Ivenack
November 2014 - The thousand-year-old oak of Ivenack - There are many natural monuments that fascinate me. Few things have, however, moved me as much as the thousand-year-old oak of Ivenack. Its girth is enormous and the same can be... »read more

October 2014 - Little Beach by Night
October 2014 - Little Beach by Night -   The special atmosphere of all-encompassing isolation and dark nature can only be captured at night. For a long time, I’d planned to paint a picture of the beach at night – and on the last... »read more

September 2014 - The Old Place
September 2014: - The Old Place -   I took a whole week for this picture and a little journey of thought into my past. In the mornings, I positioned myself on a stool in the small alleyway and devoted myself with leisure to the... »read more

August 2014 - Experience and Enjoy
August 2014 - Experience and Enjoy - Familiar with the vast, wild, roaring surf of the Atlantic in the south of Portugal, I struggled for a long time to want to get to know the Baltic Sea. I preferred the view of steep cliffs into... »read more

July 2014 - The flower steps
July 2014 - The flower steps - Have the places we find less pretty simply fallen into a deep sleep and do they just need an initiator to kiss them awake, like sleeping beauty? When these steps didn’t exist, the upper and lower parts... »read more

June 2014 - In the land of Chorin
June 2014 - In the land of Chorin -   One Sunday morning, I travelled with my easel, hat and painting materials to Chorin. The day before, a barley field with its poppy flower splendour had appealed it to me. My day of painting... »read more

May 2014 - Eilean Donan Castle
May 2014 - Eilean Donan Castle -   I like to travel – and my favourite way to travel is haphazardly. Inspired by a postcard of Eilean Donan castle in the dying evening twilight that I found on my friend’s kitchen table, I... »read more

April 2014 - Frieda
April 2014 - Frieda - ‘Are there owls?’ – ‘When will you have owls?’ – ‘Why haven’t you painted any owls yet?’ Many people ask me – and so I made a mental effort to search for some of these shy, nocturnal creatures. Would I find them... »read more

March 2014 - Ver o tempo a passar
March 2014 - Ver o tempo a passar - Criemhilde had sat silently in the window in Pintos pub for years. But after a stroke, the old woman with her Zimmer-frame ventured only a few steps from her house. Now the olive tree had become... »read more