Karl Marxhausen


    
   Alone, down on all fours, my forehead on the linoleum,
   tears in the dark and You are there with me. In these private  
   moments I've only got You to hold me together through
   my work day. You know the pain I feel, the stress...You carry me.  
                                                             1993 newspaper job
 About The 
     Artist

I am an artist of fifty-two years. My work hangs in private collections in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and New York. After studying under Keith Jacobshagen and James Eisentrager at the University of Nebraska, I earned my BFA in 1979.   In this chapter of my life, two professions engage me. My work with students at the public high school is both satisfying and enables me to pursue painting. The stress load/work load is low enough to give my creative juices expression. The urge to understand dark and light patterns in nature makes me scamper about Moss Creek with my camera, do studies and refine what I have learned, configerate in the studio, and paint, paint, paint. Raised in eastern Nebraska, central Missouri is home sweet home, where my wife and family, pets and friends dwell. 


            
                                                                                                   

              A look back---------painting inside my studio ---- and outdoors in the summer

             during the cold months you will find this 52 year old working in his home       In the summer heat outdoors is the place to be
      
             Research and ten-foot mural illustrations of classes at the Chillicothe Business College, in Chillicothe, Missouri 1999

             Chillicothe Business College classes mural 
            Commercial illustrations with colored pencils-----
truck piece colored pencil and ink at 41Motorcycle illustration at age 41 

           Spot illustrations for the Catholic publishinghouse

   published by Catholic publishing house in Kansas Citysunday illustrations at age 27  

           "Eines Abends (One Night)"--a German story about a feather-seller who tells time --while I studied at UNL.  

     Eines Abends cartoon at age 24age 31   

            Pen and ink and wash work during my 20s

   bic pen fender at age 19    watercolor and ink at age 22

            Pencil and marker stories while in grade school.  My brother Paul and father Reinhold and me (on the right) outside the igloo we built.

  penciled action scene at age 12    superman drawing at age 14   standing to the right of my brother and father by the igloo we built

              A father's hope: that his toddler son would one day be an artist too. (me posed by my dad)
         
                           this was posed by my father, Reinhold Marxhausen.
         
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