Ten years ago, Patrick Siegl was awarded the “Euward”, the European art prize for people with intellectual disabilities. This year the illustrator is nominated again – and is teaching for the first time in Little Art’s inclusive project.
As an artist, Patrick Siegl is uncompromising. Immediately after school it was clear to him: If the application to Klaus Mecherlein, the head of the studio at the Augustinum Special Education Center in Oberschleißheim, didn’t work out, then “I would be unemployed,” says Siegl. Because he didn’t want to work in one of the disabled people’s workshops in the Starnberg district, such as a garden center, he wanted to make art.