Welcome to my personal page about my paper cuts, my books and myself.
Biography
I studied Arts at the university with the hope to become a rich and famous artist. Unfortunately I couldn`t earn enough with my art and so I became a teacher. From that point I started earning money but after a while I became sick by doing that job.
At this point I decided to stop teaching and I moved to Umbria in Italy, the land of my dreams. I lived there together with my family, friends, cats, dogs and other animals from 1990 until 1998. The beautiful italian landscape and my many animals inspired me to create small and large works of art.
I had some expositions in that time but I did not earn enough money, so I had to return to Germany and start working as a teacher again.
At 2001 I gave up my job as a teacher and now, since that time, I am working as a freelance papercuttingartist. As often as possible I still go back to Italy, mostly for a longer period of time.
Paper cuts
Many years ago my Brother brought me some filigree paper cuts from China. I liked them so much that I decided to create some of them by myself.
As an Artist I got blessed with drawing talent, and so I've been soon able to start doing my first own papercuts. After a while my cut outs became larger and much more complex.
My pictures tell stories about this and other worlds. Mythical creatures from fairy tales, fantasy worlds, animals and plants are my favourite motives.
As you can see in my galleries “Grimmmaerchen” and “Andersenmaerchen” I designed a lot of paper cuts to the fairytales by the Brothers Grimm and H.Ch. Andersen. But often I create my own motifs and write my own fairy tales.
Most of my now numerous silhouette pictures can be seen her on this website in my picture gallery.
Please contact me to buy original paper cuts or printed reproductions.