Work

Uwe Topper has employed quite diverse artistic techniques throughout his life. As a teenager he began in the classical way with watercolours and oil paintings. In the 1960 he learnt the traditional woodcut technique in Nepal and created prints, first with folk motifs (shepherds, women in the field, lumberjacks, dancers…) and later also with surrealistic figures.

In the “wild 1968 years” in Berlin, Topper experimented with political collages made from newspaper clippings. Later he cut some reliefs in sandarac wood. In the 1980s a new technique was added: ink drawings with colour inks, painstakingly drawn to create the impression of a watercolour.