Ralf König

In the artist's words:

Ahem ... Who am I anyway?

Born in Soest, Westphalia, in 1960, I painted too many Donalds as a child and, as a result, after a career as a journeyman carpenter that was too short and promising according to my parents, I was suddenly and unexpectedly admitted to the State Art Academy in Düsseldorfin 1982, where I was kept quiet for five years with oil paints, plasticine and paint-by-numbers books. Unnoticed by the art professors, I secretly continued to draw picture stories.

Although I was certified as having a serious same-sex predisposition combined with too much imagination, I was released after ten semesters, with the result that I have been penetrating the population at home and abroad with my bulbous noses ever since, which in 1993 led to an application for indexing by the Bavarian Youth Welfare Office accusing me of presenting homosexuality as a matter of course and discriminating against heterosexuals in my pornographic outpourings. The Federal Review Board for Publications Harmful to Young Persons in Bonn, however, decided that it was 'art', as the noses in the drawings were generally larger than the penises.

In 2010, I celebrated my 50th birthday, in other words: I lived to see the first moon landing. Whatever that means now.

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