If financially possible, I would have liked to study arts or have an education for graphic designer. However my parants where not able to pay for it, so I learned a bricklayer's profession. Nevertheless, if ever i had some time left, I just painted or drew for myself without any ambition to exhibit them, only giving them away as gifts for friends who liked them.

When in 1992 I lost my job for a longer period, I had more time and started to paint what I loved most: Classic and Oldtimer Cars. I collected pictures of them wherever I could find, however often quite small and only in black and white. It were their shapes and lines which inspired me and finally let me develop a painting technique to revitalize them as shining and glittering as they may have been in reality.