Just over 20 years ago, when we were looking for larger works of art for a newly built company building, we came across the Hamburg painter Carlo Cazals, alias Udo Klein. A few years earlier, he had moved with his wife Inge from Hamburg to a small town in Mecklenburg, where we first came into contact with his drawings and paintings in a small gallery.

Carlo’s works polarize! Some are immediately carried away, others are immediately repelled. Fortunately, my best husband of all time and I immediately agreed: this is what it should be!

Over the years and a few picture purchases later, our friendship grew. A rare stroke of luck, because apart from his wife Inge, his big dog (once it was a great dane, once a Rottweiler), Carlo didn’t really like people.

During his lifetime, he asked us to manage his life’s work in trust, which we are still happy to do. His style is idiosyncratic and so it is only rarely possible to organize high-quality exhibitions, especially as we have had to do this alongside our actual professional activities.

Carlo passed away in 2022 after a long illness. In the end, it was our dog Colja who made him smile when he lovingly patted his huge head.

We are currently looking for a gallery to take over the professional presentation and marketing of his life’s work.