Dieter Fricke

art-lightpainting - The Visible invisible

Short biography

1943
born in Borken near Kassel, Germany

1944
fell ill with meningitis and became deaf

1951-1959
school for the deaf in Homberg/Efze

1959-1960
school for the deaf in Friedberg/Hesse

1960-1963
apprenticeship as engineering draftsman in Frankfurt/Main

1970-1999
designer at HOECHST AG, Frankfurt

1999
early retirement

2000
freelance artist

seit 1968
married to Margit Fricke, née Schneider