Year: 2018

Advent In Verona

27.12.18 08.04.19Nativity Scene, Travel Advent season, Italy, Nativity Scene, Verona

Opera lovers will know the annual summer festival in the arena of Verona and may have been there at least once. It is not unusual to visit this northern Italian…

The High Altar In St. Anne’s Church

09.12.18 17.12.18Urban Sketching Baroque, Church, Vienna

St. Anne’s Church in Vienna organises trumpet concerts during the Advent season. There are several reasons why one should attend one of these concerts. St. Anne’s is an impressing baroque…

Birds Of Prey In The Museum

25.11.18 26.11.18Urban Sketching Bird of Prey, Buzzard, Eagle

I am not a nature lover. My interest in plants hardly exists and I have a very selective attention concerning animals. However, birds of prey belong to my favourites and…

Greetings From Goethe’s Faust

18.11.18 19.11.18Tin Figure Faustus, Goethe, Literature, Mephistophiles, Play, theatre

Literary greetings from Goethe’s Faust. It is the second time I painted this group. I sold the first one during an exhibition where I demonstrated how to paint flat figures.…

Happy Halloween 2018

31.10.18 31.10.18Urban Sketching Garden, Halloween

The asters bloomed gorgeously this autumn and made a perfect background for jack-o'-lantern. Happy Halloween!

In The Natural History Museum

22.10.18 23.10.18Urban Sketching Bird, Bird of Prey, Museum, Vulture

Vienna has experienced the warmest October since years but last Wednesday it had to rain. This answered the question if the USK Vienna will sketch outside or inside the museum…

Wild Boars In A Matchbox

13.10.18 23.10.18Tin Figure Matchbox, Wild Boar

During the warm season, which lasted this year in Vienna until the third week of October – I neglected flat figure painting. But I promise I will finish some before…

Indian Summer On The Castle Ruin Aggstein

07.10.18 23.10.18Urban Sketching Autumn, Castle Ruin

The castle Aggstein dates back to the 12th century. Today it is a ruin with a spectacular view of the Cultural Landscape Wachau. That alone makes it worthwhile to drive…

Autumnal Still Lives

01.10.18 24.10.18Urban Sketching Autumn, Pumpkin, Still life

Autumn seems to inspire me. I practised "watercolour only" and painted some still lives.

The Beginning Of Autumn

23.09.18 20.09.18Urban Sketching Autumn, Pumpkin, Still life

On the northern hemisphere autumn is beginning today. Finally! I have been longing for it since mid-June. To celebrate autumn I painted a little still life in watercolour only.

Seestadt Aspern – Cretacolor Mix

20.09.18 21.09.18Tools and Materials, Urban Sketching Night sketch

If you are interested in history you might have heard about Aspern. Archduke Karl defeated Napoleon there in 1809. Today the Seestadt Aspern one of Europe’s biggest urban development project…

Schloß Hof In Autumn

19.09.18 20.09.18Urban Sketching Autumn, Garden, Lower Austria, Palace

Prince Eugene of Savoy was already 62 years old when he bought Schloß Hof and let it remodel. A special feature was the estate farm nearby. After Prince Eugene’s death…

French Urchin With Baguette

15.09.18 17.09.18Tin Figure France, Paris

I bought this charming flat figure in Kulmbach in 2013. It was made by Reiner Mischko. Back at home I put it beside all the other figures in the cupboard.…

Kellergasse – An Ideal Place For Sketching And Wine Drinking

09.09.18 10.09.18Urban Sketching Autumn, Cellar lane, Wine

If you ever come to Austria you must visit a genuine "Kellergasse" (cellar lane). No, this does not mean visiting an overprised mass tourism institution in Grinzing with parking spaces…

Trieste

07.09.18 08.04.19Travel Italy, Trieste, Video

I take the strain of taking a journey because I love to be somewhere else. Going as Viennese to Trieste gives you sometimes the impression you haven’t left home at…