Lebenslauf

1947          Geboren Weehawken, New Jersey, USA.

1969          Hochschulabschluss, West Chester State College, Pennsylvania, Bachelor of Science,

                 Health and Physical Education.

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1972          Studienreise, Europa.  Beginn der künstlerischen Auseinandersetzung.       

                 Mehrmonatlicher Aufenthalt Tarrast, Marokko, Teilnahme an Leben und Arbeit der einheimischen Fischer.

1973         Schiffsreise, M/V Peace, mit Abe Nathan.  Bekanntschaft mit dem israelischen Künstler Mosche Gat.

1974          Aufenthalt, Palma de Mallorca, Unterricht mit der australischen Künstlerin Nora Foy.       

                 Schiffsreise nach Amsterdam, Aufnahme auf der Rietveldkünst Akademie, Amsterdam.

1975          Schiffsreise nach Gran Canaria, Kontakt mit dem Bildhauer Juan Montull.  

                 Schiffsreise nach Antigua, Aquarell entstanden.

1976          Sommerstudium an der Woodstock School of Art, New York, bei Robert Angeloch.

1978          Reise nach Mexiko, vorrangig Arbeiten in Aquarell.

1979          Lachsfischerei, Oregon Küste, USA.  

                 Sommerstudium an der Cannonbeach Art School, Oregon, USA.

1980          Studium an der Arts Student League, New York, bei Gustav Rehberger, Akt und Anatomie,

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Artist Statement

As a young man, beginning with twenty-three years to travel around the world, I began sketching my impressions of the people I met, and places they lived, as well Land and Cityscapes in a storytellers manner, in an effort to portray these experiences, I was privileged to have.  My interest was to share these impressions with Friends and Family who have chosen a more settled life than I.  

In 1987 I landed, through coincidence, in a stone quarry near Salzburg, Austria, at a Stone Sculpture Symposium associated with the International Sommerakademie of Salzburg.  I met Karl Prantl, Janez Lenazzi, Miloslav Chlupáč, and Makoto Fujiwara, some of the men from the first hour of the “Modern” Stone Sculpture Symposium.  It was working there, in that month in the quarry where I developed my love of stone sculpting and the enthusiasm for the philosophy of the Stone Sculpture Symposium and its influence in the world.  With the help of a few “natives”, in the small Bavarian village of Dettelbach, Germany, we were able to organize two International Sculpture Symposia, propagating the enthusiasm and philosophy of these Symposia.  As a result of this work we were able to set the ground for a Sculpture Park at the river Main, which flows next to the City of Dettelbach, Germany.

The nature of my work has changed with my meeting of stone

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biografie

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