room for humour

After training as a book printer, Heinz Thurn initially studied graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg from 1970 to 1976, but then turned to painting, with which he combines a more exciting process of dealing with the work. Among the eighty five percent of artists (not just visual artists) who feed on a different profession are the courses for high school students in various printing techniques Thurn's “bread and butter”. Heinz Thurn lives and works in Nuremberg.