TEACHING IN DRAWING
AND PAINTING
After a long period of oil
painting and watercolors,
Harry BIRKHOLZ was working
in a non-conventional way using
many different quality papers and
techniques: watercolor, acrylic,
pencil, inks, pastels,
collage
His mastering of painting
allowed him for an immediate and
spontaneous expression, as well
as for figurative and
sophisticated compositions. To
adopt only one single approach
was a too narrow limitation to
him. The spirit in which he
created was that of freedom: "I
am the style". The way his vision
manifests had many facets, each
of them reflecting the humanity
of his artistic
individuality...
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Some
paintings from participants of
Harrys workshops
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ASTRO-LOGOS
Harry BIRKHOLZ was a
Western astrologer since
1973.
He was trained by Georg Glocksin
in Germany, included all the
interpretation techniques as well
as long studies based on the work
of Dane Rudhyar.
After his education in Vedic
(Indian) astrology with Claudio
Scubla in the years 2000, Harry
BIRKHOLZ offered the synthesis of
all his experiences in western
and eastern interpretation
techniques.
"Astrology belongs to the most
ancient cultural heritages of
mankind.
Historians suppose that its
origin is to be found in Babylon
but the complete system already
appears in the Indian Rig Veda
which, according to careful
estimations, goes back to more
than 4.500 years. The text of the
Rig Veda and the major Vedic
astrology literature appeared at
the same age.
The fact also that the
pre-Columbian Mayans and Aztecs
used different astrological
techniques leads to the
conclusion that in all the
civilizations of all the ages
people have known the connection
between the astronomical cycles
and the human cycles (...)
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Marianne
Obozinski, août 2012
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