KATHA is the inventor of these “binding techniques” which is called KATHAs CUTTING ART and the only artist worldwide who paints like this art technology. The center of KATHA´s life has been in Dubai since 2007.

Like the Art Nouveau painter Alfons Maria Mucha, KATHA´s father hung a pencil in a silver sleeve on a ribbon around her neck at the age of one and a half and began to paint with her. He took out the antique engravings and let them pause the fish, flowers and birds through tracing paper. At the same time, her mother taught her abstract painting, which consisted of triangles, squares and circles. When she understood the basics of painting, her father put fresh flowers from the garden on her table and opened up the world of studying nature to her. Her father had programmed her like a hard drive, so that she knew how to convert a bouquet of flowers into a golden ratio at the age of two. She painted in the middle, freely and without burdensome thoughts.

Katharina's family was founded when her mother strolled across the Brühl Terrace in Dresden in 1956 and met her father. At that time he was still a dental technician, which is how he learned how to gild with amalgam and mercury. Later he became a jewelry designer and restorer in the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR. His mother Eugenie and the family members on his father's side were Volga Germans and came from St. Petersburg.

Katharina was born in 1965 as the third child in the family. Her early childhood purpose in life was to paint. Her talent was discovered and she was trained to be quick to grasp and think abstractly. As early as 1970, as a five-year-old, Katharina quickly realized that she was everyone's favorite when she painted diligently. Katharina used the antique engravings or inside pages of centuries-old books that she fetched from the library as a substitute. When the artist Otto Dix visited their home, he recommended Katharina's father, who was absolutely desperate about it, that he should cover the kitchen with white wallpaper rolls and from that day on she painted, like a painting machine on wallpaper rolls on the parquet in the kitchen.

In 1979 she began to take part in the remedial class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden. This level was the training ground for "apparent talents", which was followed by a two-year evening course, while she completed her profession as a shoe worker at the same time after secondary school.

In 1981, Katharina publicly burned 1000 of her drawings and due to her emerging rejection of art, was diagnosed with a borderline disorder.

In 1982 she studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden.

In 1983 she joined the resistance against the GDR government through her brother Johannes and moved in Dresden artistic circles, together with artists such as Helge Leiberg, AR. Penk, Tjark Ihmels and others. In 1984, after several suspensions by the GDR state apparatus, Katharina was exmatriculated from her studies, submitted her first application to leave the country in West Germany and was banned from working.

In 1985, she was sent to the notorious Stasi prison, where she took her mother out after a week through her lawyer. After that, Katharina withdrew completely from art and stopped painting.

She married and their daughter Elisa was born in the GDR in 1986.

In 1989, she and her family were expelled from the GDR and their son was born in West Germany.

Katharina's parents died in 1991 and 1994

In 1995 she began to paint again and changed her painting technique to a tying technique. She calls this "Katha's Cutting Art". First with hot wax oeather, in 2005 she replaced the wax with tape and cut out details along the contours with a box cutter.

Since then, she has never stopped painting. She will be 60 years old in the summer of 2025.