Captions

BEFORE THE ACADEMY
1	A small picture I did when I was 7 years old
DURING THE ACADEMY
2a-2e, 2g,2j,2k	The nude model Nina von Kikodze from Georgia
2r	Prospect for the opera “LE CINESI” by Chr.W. von Gluck for the Gärtnerplatzteater in Munich
2q	Scenes for “DER KAUKASISCHE KREIDEKREIS” by B. Brecht
2s	Poster for the comedy “MONSIEUR DE POURCEAUGNAC” by J.B. Molière/J.B. Lully
2l-2o	Abstract stage designs (collages)
2p	A stage design
2t-2w	Stage designs for the play “LE BALCON” by G. Genet
AFTER THE ACADEMY
	PORTRAITS
3-4w	After my studies at the academy, I dedicated my time exclusively to painting portraits. I was never interested in capturing just a snapshot of the person, but sought to paint him in his enterity, in a sort of psychogram. Personality is situated in the inside. This inside shapes the outside, the appearance of the person. In a portrait his appearance must reflect the inside of the person.
3p	In this portrait you see two ladies from behind. They are looking in a mirror preparing themselves for a ball. Their husbands are also in the mirror, ready and waiting for them. I am behind the canvas in the picture, painting the group. The sculpted frame of the mirror passes into the painting.
3,3u	My Mother
4q	This portrait is made up of two canvases set at an right angle. On the left canvas one sees the lady from the back, on the right canvas one sees her from in front in the mirror. There is only one precise focus point where all the lines pass in a direct way from one canvas to the other.
	BOOKS
268-269i	THE RAINBOWGOBLINS The idea of the transformation of flowers into insects, butterflies and birds was something I had in mind, since I was a little boy (see nr. 1!). I illustrated my fairy-tale with 19 paintings (oil on wood). Thames&Hudson publishers;
270-272v	THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG I rewrote Wagner’s Text with my own words. 30 paintings (oil on wood). Thames&Hudson publishers.
273	Disc-cover for the rock-group “Johnny Fuzzy Kruz and the Mind Explosions”. They used a part of the front page of my book “The Ring of the Nibelung” (see Nr 270). The norns, deeply symbolic creatures were transformed into three rockers!
276-284f	THE LEGEND OF TE TUNA Text by Richard Adams. 10 paintings and 46 vignettes. Oil on wood, china ink on paper. Sidgwick&Jackson publishers.
276	Publicity for the book “The Legend of Te Tuna”
278-283c	Double vignettes for “The Legend of Te Tuna” (selection). The text is printed between the upper and the lower vignette.
283d-284f	A selection of paintings for the book “The Legend of Te Tuna”
dal 285 a al 294 b	THE WHITE GOBLIN The continuation of the Rainbow Goblins. 16 illustrations (acrylics on paper). Thames&Hudson publishers.
295	Cover for the Book “CUINTRISTORIE DAL FRIÛL” written by J. Marchet (china ink on paper).
	CINEMA
300 al 00300h	Some details of the “galaxies” for the film “FLASH GORDON” produced by Dino De Laurentiis
301 al 00423	THE NEVERENDING STORY Film based on M. Ende’s book
301	The painting for the poster of the Film “The Neverending Story”
302	The Poster
303-423	The Neverending Story Pre-production sketches for the fairy persons, masks, costumes, set-designs and details. All the final production works remained with the production company.
	OPERA
1020b-1020p	Sketches for the opera “DER GOGGOLORI”. Music W.Hiller/ text M.Ende.
1021-1432	THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG Music and text R. Wagner. (Zürich Operahouse) Here is illustrated about half of the volume of work I did for the “Ring” at the Zürch Operahouse. It is absolutely necessary for the stage- designer to have something concrete to discuss with the art-director. That is why I drew so many different versions. The art director Claus Helmut Drese and myself decided to develop the version showing the cut globe. The surface of the earth showed from opera to opera the evolution of time, beginning from the glacial era to our days. The Twilight of the Gods, the last opera of the cycle, representing the present extended beyond the limits of the globe. Instead of nature, trash covered the earth. The Hall of the Gibichungen was filled almost to the chandelier hanging from the ceiling. In the last minute all the rubbish was “cancelled”, and so the stage-floor became automatically the floor of the Hall and reached almost to the chandelier. That was incomprehensible to the spectators and the sense of that stage design was swept away with the rubbish.
1021e	Sketch for the stage-courtain
1021f	Program
1021g	Booklet of the “Ring”-Production
1021a-1021d	The 4 posters (received the “Schweizer Plakatpreis”)
	THE RHINE GOLD
1022-1022w	Scenes and sketches for details (several versions)
1023-1123c	Double back-cloths
1034-1130	Scenes and sketches for details (several versions)
1130-1130g	Photographs of scenes
	THE WALKYRIE
1131-1131p	The rock of the Walkyries
1131q-1131u	The rock of Wotan and Fricka
1131w-1131x	Hunding’s hut and chair
1132-1132d	Double back-cloths
1147-1229	Scenes and sketches for details (several versions)
1229.1229n	Photographs
	SIEGFRIED
1230-1231g	Single and double back-cloths
1232a-1238f	Stage-design and detailed sketches
1239-1327	Scene-sketches (several versions)
1327a	Photograph
	THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
1328-1328a	Sketches for details
1328d	Double back-cloth
1337-1430	Scenes-sketches (several versions)
1431-1432	Photographs
	VARIOUS WORKS
8002	Poster for the musical “HAIR” for german-speaking countries.
8003, 8004	Posters for concerts
8005	My parents admire their grave-stone. I had to design it while they were still alive, because they wanted it see it from the “good” side!
8006	Poster of a retrospective of my works.
8007	Booklet of this exhibition
8008-80012	A mug for beer for the museum of the Paulaner Beer Brewery in Munich
80013-8020	Logos
8023	This painting was commissioned by the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft (DGG). I conceived the idea of a painting that could be cut into 12 smaller pictures. They were used for 12 disc-covers of a music-series.
8024-8030	Some of those covers. On the back the whole painting was printed.
8183-8208	A series of variation on an own theme
8183	Here starts the journey
8184	Malefica-Venefica
8185	Sweet pollen for the butterfly
8186	Busy Industrial Zone
8187	Wine, Women and Song (Wein, Weib und Gesang)
8188	Yak the Ripper
8189	Cosmic Palm Tree
8190	Adam’s vision
8191	Red Sail in the Sunset
8192	Doesn’t Ondine live here any more?
8193	Chaos-Order
8194	Wallflower
8195	Traffic-signal
8196	Under- and overexposure
8197	Around the World in Eighty Days
8198	Keeping it clean
8199	Our holiday last summer
8200	Flora and fauns
8201	Frigid beauty
8202	An unexpected waterfall
8203	The Tree of Life
8204	Is it still raining?
8205	Vanitas
8206	My favorite tornado
8207	Close the courtain!
8208	The Theme
8231	A commission from the German Boxerclub. The Painting was to serve for a scarf. The Boxerdogs were all portraits painted from photographs. (Acrylics on wood)
8357	The Original Painting by G.A. Canaletto The Return of the Bucentaur (1730) A.Crespi Foundation, Milan The low-level copy of the « Return of the Bucentaur » by G.A. Canaletto Painted 1933 for a restaurant in Venice. I bought this painting because I had the idea to paint my own version above it My Version « The Last Return of the Bucentaur » (2013)