Alexander Czernin Msc.

1973	born in Vienna. Now, I am living and working here again. Stations in between were Graz, New Zealand and Nepal.
1990	inspired by Sven Hedin´s illustrated travel reports, I discovered my passion for landscape-watercolor painting. Since then, I have always been travelling with my sketchbook and watercolors.
1992	first cartoons evolve, in order to keep me awake during the endlessly boring night-shifts in the Austrian army. As some senior officers recognize themselves in my caricatures, I manage to demobilize without any decoration to a higher rank.
1992 – 2011	parallel to my studies (University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna) and to my work as a landscape planner (first planning office Gartenbau Lederleitner,- then 7 years at freiland Environmental Consulting ltd.), I attend several arts-classes in the field of portrait, comic, caricature, nude painting, architectural drawing and digital illustration. Trainings were attended e.g. at the so-called Künstlerische Volkshochschule Vienna, illuskills-Vienna, Akademie Wildkogel und Zeichenwerk.
2011	While travelling in Nepal during a sabbatical, I decided to follow my passion and put my focus into illustration.
2012	Companystart freihand-zeichner e.U.