Vita

Tom Becker, 2018

• 1955 Born in Tegernsee (Upper Bavaria), Germany
   
• 1971 End of his first school career, training as an industrial clerk in the graphic industry, first oil paintings
   
• 1973 First Participation in regional exhibitions
   
• 1974 First studio, first portrait commissions
   
• 1975 Summer Seminar Reichenau / Rax (Ernst Fuchs), old master painting techniques
   
• 1976/77 Guest student in the class of Mac Zimmermann at the Art Academy, Munich
  
  First solo exhibition in Munich (Galleria Piccola)

• Second School Education
   
• 1983 Abitur at the Munich College
   
• 1983 - 1990 Studies of German, German as a foreign language, art history and philosophy
   
• since 1985 Literary texts, editing, texts and graphics in magazines and anthologies, initiative of young authors
   
• 1990 - 2007 Editor and editor-in-chief of various city, cultural and professional journals
   
• 2007 Reentry into the Catholic Church, first contemplative retreat
   
• since 2007 Independent, development and editing of websites and online magazines
   

  Dealing with abstract art, especially concrete painting

  Radical limitation to the shape of the square

  Development of Abstract Painting

  Digital Experiments