Effective period / Period of releases: 1969

German Painter and Sculptor (born 1923 in Jünkerath, Germany; died 2010 in Köln, Germany) is considered a pioneer of "audio-visual painting".
In 1962 the synesthete made his first works in this genre. To do this, he used the image scanner of the former Munich Studio for Electronic Music of the Scholl Foundation (formerly Siemens Studio for Electronic Music). In the years following he refined the skill of "transforming abstract shape events into corresponding electronic sounds" (G. Maas).
To scan his pictures electronically it was necessary to transfer them photographically to slides, which then could be converted into synthetic sounds by the Munich scanner device. From the collage-like layering of the recorded sound tracks arose the electro-acoustic compositions of his paintings. In a kind of iterative process, he adjusted always meticulously shapes and colors of his pictorial creations to the desired elctronic sounds.