Experiment #1

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Art is neither total chaos nor total order. It moves on a broad middle path in between: it is simply design. It brings order into chaos and destroys strict order.
So the question to be answered was: Is it nevertheless possible to unite pure chaos and undisturbed order in one work of art at the same time?
In a series of paintings about the old town of Erlangen, experiments proved that this is possible.
Exact lines run through the pictures and hem in the chaos.
The chaos was created by applying only basic colors in unmixed form directly from the tube and distributing and partially mixing them in unstructured form directly with the fingers of one hand arbitrarily between the ordering lines.
The areas contain the chaos, the lines play the role of enclosing order.

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Experiment #2

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This series of works has arisen out of pure curiosity from the question: What creative possibilities arise when you first paint a canvas with a color, then crumple it up, press it smooth and paint on it again, and in the end pull the canvas apart again partially or even completely.

The results are impressive in terms of both form and content.

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Experiment #3

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Behind this type of experiment was the question of how to get viewers to spend a longer time with a work of art and not wander off to the next work after 3 or 4 seconds.

By painting two pictures on one surface in strips one inside the other, the viewers' urge to discover or decipher was aroused.
The series passed into private hands in a very short time.

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Experiment #5

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One of the strongest aesthetic criteria is symmetry. What does it mean to deliberately break this criterion, to divide a face, a head or a body into two completely different halves. Is the human being then disfigured or
can the aesthetic feeling still be preserved?

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Experiment #5

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This experiment consisted of capturing scenes directly on site in a café, without looking at the drawing paper, only at the object, and then executing the drawing with an ink pen in a single, continuous line, i.e. never picking up the pen and setting it down again to draw.

The lavation was then executed in the studio.

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