PainterWho am I?
From an early age, fascinated by the ability of painting to express a view of the world and life, I began to copy the great masters of modern art.
However, in order to embark on a more secure profession after high school, while still closely related to the fine arts and adding space, I also studied architecture. After graduating from the Saar Technical School (1966-1969), I continued my studies in architecture and urban planning at the Technical University of Berlin (1971-1976), graduating summa cum laude.
Edouard Drumm
Appointed as a tutor at the Chair, I had the freedom to begin my artistic painting training parallel to my duties from 1971 until the end of 1976, overseen by the professors of the Fine Arts in Berlin (Hans Reuther: Drawing, Hans Weber: Nude, Bernhard Wilkening: Free Painting and Techniques of Collage, Peeling, and Rubbing).
At the beginning of 1977, we resided in Algeria, first in the northeastern Sahara and then along the coast until our return in 1981. There, I practically learned to “see” colors and structures in constant change throughout the day and realized that it is light and shadow, heat and cold, that create abstraction by dissecting a motif.
From 1982 to 2009, I was independent with an architecture and urban planning office in Frankfurt/Main, where I began my first invited exhibitions starting in 1992. My works, since my training in Berlin, were in a completely different style from realism; a path I abandoned after my travels to southern France, Tunisia, Senegal, Gabon, and following my four-year stay in Algeria.
These impressions were further strengthened by numerous travels in Provence, Aquitaine, and Brittany. Invited exhibitions of these works were held at the International Theater of Frankfurt/Main, at the French Institute, at the Chris Sommer Gallery in Munich-South, in Cavaillon, at the Municipal Gallery Charité Ste. Eutrope in Gordes, and finally by invitation in Algiers (at the Dar Nardjess halls, Arts and Culture) and in Tunis (at the Tahar Haddad Cultural Center, Medina).
Since 2011, I have been living in Alsace, where I began my paintings based on the motifs of the bordering region, its environment, landscapes, light, and typical colors (madder, ochre, cobalt blue, oxblood red, pink and beige sandstone, verdigris, etc.), with exhibitions from 2011 to the present day, and with the conviction that, based on a figurative motif, I could continue my journey towards structuralism and the recomposition and restructuring of a motif. The creation parallel to nature that I call “Tectonic Abstraction.”
