Jochen Sachse

Jochen Sachse drew as a boy and later painted with watercolours as a renowned marine painter: 

ships on all oceans for trade, marine and tourism, for shipping companies and private individuals. Thus, self-taught Jochen Sachse through lifelong work became a great chronicler of seafaring in all its variations.

 Just like photorealists - precision, perspective and technical detail were always important to him. In contrast to most painting ship lovers, however, he focused on the representation of contemporary ships, realising images completely without today's ubiquitous and unlimited digital possibilities. Many of his pictures show ships that had previously merely existed on a drawing board. As a full-time ship engineer, he was able to use the blueprints and general scale plans of the shipping companies and shipowners as a foundation for his works. 

Although Sachse's ships always exude objectivity and technical high performance; his pictures reflect the unadulterated beauty of clouds and waves, the exoticism of distant shores, the eternal adventure of seafaring, for which Jochen Sachse was enthusiastic all his life. 

Throughout his life, during his many voyages on various types of ships, in the most remote navigable waters of the earth, he acquired a considerable amount of meteorological knowledge, meticulously observing and photographing light conditions, cloud moods and wave movements from the ship bridges.

For the detailed representation of the seawater of the seven seas, he found worldwide recognition – not only among the fans of marine painting. 

We, his four daughters, want his work not to be forgotten in the increasing flood of digital images. 

Any questions? We look forward to hearing from you! 

Karolin Freese, Juliane Sachse, Stephanie Sachse, Constanze Becker-Floris