Here you find some of my older pictures, that have partly been drawn or painted during my school years. The newest are on top.
Watercolour, 24 · 15 ½ cm², 1999. — Ought to have become some sort of allegory; what exactly, I don’t quite know myself. The name “Ganymede” was chosen simply because I liked it, not because I put emphasis on its significance in Greek mythology.
Watercolour, 24 ½ · 10 cm², 1999. — Once served as an illustration for a previous page on my hunting hobby.
Watercolour, DIN A 4, 1998. — A fantasy picture. Whoever (as a better connoisseur of horses than I am) thinks he detects errors in anatomy, bridle, or the way the reins are held, must be mistaken: That’s just how it is with a pegasus. The crosses on the wings come from my favourite aircraft, the German biplanes of World War I.
Watercolour, DIN A 4, 1997. — The continuation of the subject from the previous picture, but this time from the opposite perspective.
Watercolour, DIN A 4, 1997. — This was my second watercolour picture. (The first was a less exhibit-worthy attempt, which I no longer own.) At some point in senior art classes, watercolour painting became the subject, and the assigned topic was “Man and Space.” So all I did was depict a man in space. To make it especially impressive, I chose to depict a particularly impressive — superior, superhuman, gigantic — man: Adloff the Gigantic. The name “Adloff” comes from a figure that appeared to me in a dream: Adloff Uffbruchlokal, the ugly innkeeper of a rundown tavern. Unlike the figure shown here, he resembled Mampf from the Knax characters. “OPQR” stands for the letters of the alphabet between N and S.
Pencil, 19 · 24 cm², 1997. — One of the cherubim who, according to Genesis 3:24, bar the entry to the Garden of Eden. Together with the previous one and other pieces, this picture was meant to be part of a collage on “angels” in my art class.
“… the angel guards the gate no more, to God our thanks we pay.”
Pencil, 21 · 30 cm², 1997. — A preparatory sketch for a never-completed pencil drawing from my senior art classes, which was supposed to become part of a collage on the theme of “angels” together with the above drawing. It shows the ‘fallen angel’ Lucifer just after being defeated by St. Michael the Archangel.
