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Nina Geling

Nina Geling

 

Ekkahart Bouchon

Ekkahart Bouchon

Two worlds, two lives, each developing its own way, but steadily coming towards each other. On the 19 of June 1936 in the German town of Kwitlenburg the first child was born in the family of a teacher of the local gymnasia. Either the pastor misspelled his name, or the parents wanted it that way, but the boy got a unique first name: EKKAHART. His surname, Bouchon, he got from his ancestors Huguenots who had flown to Germany from France on the terrible night of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. His childhood was spent during the war and the time of the post-war devastation, and that experience has strongly influenced his personality, his world outlook, his fate.

The girl Nina was born on a cold winter morning of the January 18, 1950 in a Russian-Ukrainian family, on the bank of the great river Volga in a country that was going to celebrate that year the 5-th anniversary of its victory over the nazis Germany. The children in the yards kept playing at war, on the radio one heard songs-marches about a happy childhood in the Soviet land, and the girl was very happy to be born in such a special land.

The parents of both the boy in Germany and the girl in Russia were not inclined to arts, but the children since early childhood were actively engaged in a creative work and both had rich imagination. But whereas Nina was writing tales and inventing her own toy models, Ekkahart's fantasy was rich enough not only for arts, but also for school pranks. By the time when Nina was doing her first steps in her creative work Ekkahart using the advantage in age had already drawn, moulded and cut quite a lot. But that did not embarrass Nina. She spent all her spare time at drawing, and her works were even shown on the All-Union TV. Thus she was for the first time recognised as an artist".

Meanwhile the childhood was over. Ekkahart realised that he would continue to create, but in order to be able to do so, he needed a profession that could allow him to earn his bread. Nina's head was overfilled with a muddle of fashion, bionics, medical genetics and dolphins. Later they both got higher education only in different cities, West Berlin and Moscow, and got different specialities, mine engineering and chemical technology of biological active compounds. But the mines in Germany were being closed down, and a fashionable speciality in Russia meant a complicated search of a job. Ekkahart learns another speciality and makes a career as an environmentalist, in the end he is at the head of the corresponding institution in Hamburg. Nina finds herself in the All-Union Cardiological Research Centre in Moscow. There she works at her thesis, becomes a doctor of science and many years works successfully as a biochemist. On the surface it all looks very exciting: lots of publications in home and international journals, joint research work with the colleagues from other countries, participation in the international symposiums and congresses. But in the background of all that is a titanic labour, when you don't have time or energy left not only for your creative work but also for yourself. So when on the book given Nina as a present by the author V.A. Tkachuk, a talented scientist and Nina's colleague, one reads, To Nina Geling, who has devoted her life to prostaglandins" it makes one wonder. Both Nina and Ekkahart have a family and children. Both have love, happiness and later sorrows followed by tragedies.

Then Nina takes her seriously ill son to Germany in despair, hoping against hope for the help from a certain Mr. Ekkahart Bouchon. Their paths crossed in Hamburg in 1991 during the days of the August putsch in Moscow. That meeting was for both of them the beginning of a new friendship and love, in fact, the beginning of a new life filled with mutual creative work. And on the dome of their sky a new star was born, a small star of their love and hope for the future, whose name is Grigory Bouchon.

Ekkahart Bouchon: got a versatile education from an artist and a teacher of Arts Egon Ossig. Exhibitions since 1964 in Germany, USA, Rumania, Italy and Russia.

Nina Geling: : in 1993-94 perfects her artistic skill with the help of a Rumainian . painter Michail Gyorgy (acryl) and a Russian painter Alexandra Tokareva (oil), in 1995-1998 attends the classes of the artists Bernd Molk-Tassel (fine arts) and Dieter Boge (collage) at the Academy of Fashion Design JAK" in Hamburg.

Exhibitions: since 1993 in Germany, Rumania, France, Lithuania and Russia.

 
 


   


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