History

2023

From 2023 on the gallery will be open every week... initially there will be no fixed opening hours, but we will find our way... because from March on, besides running, mountain biking, cooking good food, enjoying life in retirement.... we will not but paint!!! We are looking forward to every visitor - and in that sense: see you soon...

From 2023 on the Laudien Rathaus Galerie will be open every week

2017

After completely new possibilities of creative expression had arisen - 8 years of breaking through walls, plastering, laying floors, designing and hand-building furniture - our own gallery finally opened its doors... and in the future provides direct access to our art.

2017: Laudien Rathaus Galerie opens its doors

2014

A second foothold... creative expansion of all possibilities in the new domicile... and - at the same time - more than just a vision towards the second half of life without any external determination...

Laudien Rathaus Galerie

2008 the idea to combine representational with abstract...

Combining representational with abstract - example 2
2008 die idee, gegenständliches mit abstrakten zu vereinen...
A Motif from Paris... (graphite drawing) is complemented with acrylic (centered around the idea of a "dream catcher")
Combining representational with abstract - example 2
Cyclist (in graphite) is color-modified with acrylics...
and by turning the image transforms into an imaginary landscape...

the years 2004 - 2007 with the "chromatic phase in oil"...

the years 2004 - 2007 with the "chromatic phase in oil"

1986 - 2003

Commissions (mostly portraits) increase; independently of this over 100 drawings are being created.
Freedom in interpretation seems to grow...

Commissions (mostly portraits) increase, independently of this more than 100 drawings are being created.  
Freedom in interpretation seems to grow...

Over the following years some motifs, materials and backgrounds change.

Depictions vary even though mostly representative...

Over the following years some motifs, materials and backgrounds change.
1989 graphite | 1990 ink on coloured paper | 1991 paint on cardboard | 1997 paint on ardboard
Depictions vary even though mostly representative...
1985 ink/graphite | 1986 ink on coloured paper | 1987 chalk on cardboard | 1988 ink

1980 - 1985 testing and expanding this new knowledge

It's just fun; within a few years and besides school and apprenticeship over 100 portrait are being produced. The vast majority just like that; but 10% could be called commissions.

1980 - 1985 testing and expanding this new knowledge
1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1984 | 1985

it started with the portrait...

1979 Portrait of the Father
1979 Portrait of the Father

and hence not necessarily the easiest of all possible first steps.
But when in 1979 a 16-year-old suddenly discovers that there is something of which he had not the slightest idea, he will all astonished first and foremost keep to the matter...