About me

Norbert Gramer, Ph.D.
started painting and drawing very early, lives with his wife and two children in a small town located along the river Rhine in Germany.
After completing an early creative and graphic training he studied old masters like René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Albrecht Dürer, Max Ernst and also modern artists and illustrators.
Besides those art studies he received a diploma degree in Social Education at the College of Düsseldorf and a Ph.D. in Philosophy, New German Literature and Education at the University of Bonn (topic of his dissertation: Compassion in Ethics. History and Problem of a neglected principle).
Since 1970 different solo and group exibitions in Germany and France.
His works are found in both government buildings like the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and private collections in Germany, France, and the United States.

About Artwork

We
ephemeral and eternal
grown
out of nothing
trees with
roots made of stars
(Rose Ausländer)

Art can contribute to a new awareness toward nature by abstracting everyday life, by provoking anger and causing compassion with all creatures. That will only ultimately accomplish when we give up our compartmentation and to think only in categories of benefit and profit and accept our roots with the natural environment and our responsibility.