Who are you Kathrin?
I am a figurative painter living in Sydney Australia. I grew up in Communist East Berlin. I have been drawing and painting my entire life. I started taking life drawing classes at the age of 14. I was selected by the local school authorities to partake in extracurricular art activities but there was no room for “Freischaffende Kuenstler” – independent artists – in East Germany. The plan economy called for industrial designers, which would have been my destiny if I had stayed in East Germany…
Read an exclusive interview with Kathrin, written by Maia Sylba, in the new edition of Musetouch Visual Arts Magazine…
