It all started in the circus, including painting.
From an early age, Rolf Knie made contact with artists who introduced him to painting. Hans Falk, for example, who accompanied the circus in the late 1970s for several years and documented life on the tours, taught him the basics of drawing and watercolor painting.
Knie's early childhood drawings already show the overflowing imagination of a young person surrounded and inspired by countless magical things. "When I was bored in school, I would make sketches that I later finished at home. It caused me trouble when I was more interested in my sketches than in the lessons the teacher was trying to teach me."
