Thomas Michel – Art vs Design. Projects and Exhibitions.

Since 1991 Thomas Michel takes part in solo exhibitions and group projects at home and abroad in the fields of painting, hydrography and design. Since 1994 he is working as freelance artist and designer for international brands. From 1988 to 1993 he studied Industrial Design at FH München, finishing with the diploma. Parallel to that he pursued an autodidactic study of painting by artistical conviction in a period, when concept art was pushed at the academies and painting was looked down on. Fine art and design aren’t a contradiction for him, but simply different languages of one and the same creative source: the will to form. In 1989 Thomas Michel discovered the technique of Hydrography, which he further developed since then continuously and visualized in the creation of large hydrographic series. Thomas Michel was born in 1966 in Darmstadt, he lives and works in Bamberg.