Who I Am

… and how I got here:

The history of EduArt is a bit confused – like real life of the founder. He was, as it were, committed to the academic life throughout his professional being. The fact that he also made excursions into political consulting, lobbying and, as he grew older, into the world of fine arts, only reinforced this academic anchoring.

However, two or three stumbling blocks must be mentioned:

* As part of one of his visiting professorships, he once offered a course entitled ‘Economic Thinking in 6 Paintings’ – when proposed, it had first been thought as somewhat odd marvel but it soon turned out to be a curious and highly multi-facetted topic, a Pandora’s jar, which, distinct from the Hesiod’s saga Theogony, released not evil but real treasures, hope being the first to escape and capture the mind of everybody who was really open-minded.

* He enriched excursions with students of social policy with art-historical programme items, such as guided tours of the Munich Pinacotheca museums, the Luxembourg Gallery in Paris, but as well visits to the Opera houses for instance in Barcelona, Stockholm or Budapest.

* While he felt committed to the students, but was at the same time busy in various countries as part of his research work, political and lobbying activities, he tried to share his travelling experiences and their socio-political significance with young people through a kind of literary excursion.

Especially the course in economics and the visit in the Luxembourg Gallery in Paris had been decisive in opening the founder’s eyes: there is only one world, and we can only understand it by approaching it from different perspectives – arts and (social) science – and finally merging these perspectives:

Understanding the world with different means, while being guided by the same interest in asking, analysing, observing and creating

Finally it had been an exceptional birthday present by an exceptional woman – she and the tour gave birth to the idea: A guided tour through the Liebermann Villa and Garden, adjunct to the Wannsee in Berlin – the two of us had been lucky: only my then partner and myself had been guided … .

Not having such villa, not having such garden, there is the ambition to open the given resources, developing a space for three thinking and refocussing work.