Born in Germany, and raised in France, I graduated with honors with an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in the spring 2000 (top 2% of class), and settled in Manhattan, where I created my sophisticated, sensual and elegant chine-collé illustrations.
My work seeks to create imagery on multiple dimensions that is at once true to its subject’s form, yet with an additional layer of interpretation. The resulting effect is one of elucidating both the scene’s objective nature as well as its inner essence and the mood it organically creates.
Having finished my undergraduate design studies in Duesseldorf, Germany in 1996, the choice between postgraduate studies in London or New York fell on to the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in Manhattan where I received two scholarships from in 1999 and 2000. Shortly before graduation, my first commission was an illustration for The New Yorker which followed an exhibition at the Society of Illustrators.
I have contributed my talent and expertise extensively to American, European and Asian fashion magazines and journals, among them The New Yorker, Vogue, Elle, Condé Nast Traveller, Cosmopolitan, Elle, The (Asian) Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, just to name a few.
My specialized ability to generate ideas for advertising art and publishing for both the American and European market has yielded many prestigious awards. My work in advertising art for such premier clients as Walt Disney, Playboy, Taschen, Chronicle Books, Penguin Putnam, and Bonny Doon Vineyard places me in the international elite in the illustration field.
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