This first group of works from “A Part of Eternity” are with natural and mineral pigments in oil on either cotton or linen canvas. The majority were painted in the 1990s. Some were reworked between 2000 and 2007. The paintings usually juxtapose a nude with one of the sculptures in the Munich Glyptothek Museum.
The artist worked on “The Last Supper” between 2002 and 2004. Originally, the painting was conceived of as an historical event. This intention underwent a transformation during the working process partially due the re-reading of some of C.G. Jung’s collected works especially those related to the Gnostics.
C. G. Jung’s profound and intellectually challenging exposition of the archetypal nature of Christ in volume 11 of his collected writings, “Psychology and Religion” states, “It was this archetype of the self in the soul of every man that responded to the Christian message, with the result that the concrete Rabbi Jesus was rapidly assimilated by the constellated archetype”.
Last Supper studies
Transcription: The Assumption of the Virgin Mary by Jacopo Tintoretto
These works marked the transition to natural mineral pigments at the beginning of the 1990’s.
In 1974, I made many drawings at the London National Gallery of the Poussin painting “Bacchanalian Revel before a Term”, the Dancers in the “Golden Calf” painting as well as the “Dance to the Music of Time” and the relief of the “Borghese Dancers” at the Wallace Collection. Between 1975 and 1976 I made the following two transcriptions.
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The following works predate the use of natural mineral pigments from the mid-1960’s in the artist’s teenage years until 1988 with works exhibited during the 1980’s in Munich, Frankfurt, Erlangen and Cologne.
A small selection of works from the 1980’s with Chinese ink and gouache on paper, or oil on canvas.