A Roman Village in Lower Germany

An illustration I did for the Book "Kaiser, Senat und Volk", showing a vicus, a village along a road. Contrary to other regions the lower Rhine area doesn't have many stones. Therefor the roads mainly consisted of pebbles.

An old friend of mine who helps me pay the rent!

More Hannas from an ongoing project. More soon...

It is very hard to estimate how a Roman City Wall on the Lower Rhine might have looked in the goodle days of Marc Aurel and his lot... A plain white, as in the partial reconstruction in the APX on the grounds of the Colonia Ulpia Traiana, or in the way they reconstructed the city wall's tower. In an environment that had little masses of huge stones, it might have made quite a show to German Barbarians. But the idea of a white wash clean wall cutting like a razor-sharp line into the grayish germanic weather might have looked quite impressing too...

These are two preliminary drawings that still don't show the red joint gap paint.

Introducing Hanna

This is Hanna. She will follow me for some time to come.

Quick Job II

Quick Job

A Roland's Gallow...

Reconstruction

This is the little Trevera Man as a wine merchant, a sketch for a project on reconstructing life on the lower Rhine in the times of the Roman Empire. Reconstructed from a statuette and a fresco and a discussion with historians...

Mill Hands

I am researching stuff from daily life in a provincial town in the ancient Roman Empire at the moment. This a visual reconstruction of a hand driven mill.

Demented are Go

Though I am very busy at the moment I managed to go out and see Demented Are Go at the Soul Hell Cafe last night. They were really great and far better than I had them in mind from the mid 1990ies.

Teaching Civil Engineer Students

My Sudents at the Unviversity of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Back in the Studio

Yesterday I started with a series of pencil sketches for an upcoming project.

Home Office...or Studio

The New Year started and I am back to work...but decided to work at home...

The new project has got something to do with Ancient Rome.