A monument in digital art, connecting the life of Herbert W. Franke from the time I first met him in 1975 to the end. The background reflects to the Mondrian art machine he developed in 1979. I placed him in front of it, but the machine and all the things he invented and the insights he published is mapped also on his face. For the mapping of Franke I used midjourney AI, a text to paint software that is in the year 2022 state of the art.

For the work A stone bust painting of HWF I claim the text: image-HWF portrait, highly detailed, mondrian, computer art, 4K, 8K, unreal engine, octane rendering, HD --ar 5:3 --seed 18. The image of HWF is located at https://s.mj.run/qKXE8u0Pp1k

HWF supported the constitution of the Sergius Both Award, which was given for the first time in 2022 at Amerika Art. Sergius Both is the avatar name of Herbert W. Franke where he met me under my name Kunst Blau. The full documentation is to be found at m1j.sergiusboth.com –

Vita

Reiner Schneeberger, born 1957 in Munich. I am a digital artist, a creator of avatars and curator for Immersive Art at Santorini Biennale. My most known avatar is Art Blue. I have published a personal book, focusing on my journey with Herbert W. Franke under the title Begegnungen mit HWF (1975-2022) which I converted into English by using DeepL. You find it on Amazon as Backlinks to HWF. I published an obituary on Herbert in the August issue of rez Magazine which is linked at https://bal3.com/mathart/

Licence

https://bal3.com/kblicence/ For the work A stone bust painting of HWF I claim the text: image-HWF portrait, highly detailed, mondrian, computer art, 4K, 8K, unreal engine, octane rendering, HD --ar 5:3 --seed 18. The image of HWF is located at https://s.mj.run/qKXE8u0Pp1k

HWF supported the constitution of the Sergius Both Award, which was given for the first time in 2022 at Amerika Art. Sergius Both is the avatar name of Herbert W. Franke where he met me under my name Kunst Blau. The full documentation is to be found at m1j.sergiusboth.com –