Artistic activities - art-fricke.

Beginning of artistic work (self-taught) Main themes of the works:

Landscapes, portraits and still lifes

Studies at the adult education centre in Wiesbaden

Studied painting at the Famous Artists School International (correspondence course)

Interruption of artistic work

Beginning of expressionist works with motifs from the world of the deaf

Beginning of abstract painting based on the flow of movement of a person's hands when signing words, sentences and texts.

In addition to paintings, he has also created numerous sculptures since 1984

Intensive involvement with photographic art

Start of ceramic works

Start of photography works

Start of video art work

Start of works in monotype technique in the Gutenberg print shop, Mainz

Workshop ‘Talking hands’

Start of work with etchings with Klaus Werner in Wiesbaden

Start of woodblock printing

Beginning of abstract painting based on the flow of movement of a person's hands while gesturing ‘The visible invisible’.

Workshop ‘The visible invisible’.

Start of new works in the technique

‘Exploration of the gesture (language)

Start of the soapstone works

Start of the new work ‘New visible flows of movement of gestures’.

Workshop ‘New visible flows of sign movement’

Awarded the DGB Culture Prize at the 4th German Culture Days of the Deaf, Cologne

Start of the new photo works, which can be described as ‘lightwriting’

Start working on my new photo artworks with sign word titles

Start of the new flame art design works

Start of the new light play photo works