Calligraphies

Listen to the flute and understandWhat she sings is always farewell pain.Since they cut me out of my reeds,She sings, I sing what the people suffered. My marrow hollowed, carved, I surrender it,Until I am only the voice of longing.For he who is expelled from his source,Wants nothing but the moment of returning home. Mystic Rumi (Translated by Mrs Annemarie […]

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.” – Jesus Christ, Rev 22:13 Wood (Punkt. Ewigkeit)

Qur’anic Sura 55/1-58 From the Koran translation by Prof. Harmut Bobzin(Sure 55 – Der Barmherzige – ar-rahman)

“Confusing me wants to confuse me,But you know how to untangle me.When I act, when I write poetry,You give the direction to my path”. (Goethe) Ink and India ink on wood Aachen 2010 (Entwirrung)

Qur’anic Sura 26/46From the Koran translation by Hartmut Bobzin Oil and ink on paper Aachen 2012 (“Unser Gott und Euer Gott sind einer”)

In the name of Him who created Himself!In the name of the One who created HimselfFrom eternity in a creative profession;In His name that creates faith,Trust, love, activity and strength;In Jenes name, who, so often called,The essence always remained unknown: As far as the ear can hear, as far as the eye can see,You only find familiar things that resemble […]

In the name of God, the all-merciful, the merciful Beginning of the first Qur’anic verse from the translation of the Qur’an by Friedrich Rückert Oil and aluminium on birch wood Stolberg 2015 (Allbarmherzige Erbarmer)

Listen to the flute and understand what it sings is always farewell pain. Since they cut me out of my reeds, she sings, I sing what people suffered. My marrow is hollowed, carved, I surrender it until I am only the voice of longing. For he who is expelled from his source wants to know nothing but the moment of […]

Translated into Arabic by Dr Malika Bendaoud Boulkifane (Algeria) Oil on birch wood Stolberg 2019 (Du und Ich)

Koran 36 / 81; from the Koran translation by Friedrich Rückert Oil on paper Stolberg 2019 (Werde! und es wird)