Thomas Sixt Culinary Still Life Photography and Art Editions

Teriyaki-glazed ingredients in chaotic artistic arrangement – abstract food composition inspired by Jackson Pollock.
“Teriyaki Meets Texture” © Thomas Sixt, Hanover 2025. The ingredients visually explode – an artistic view of creative kitchen chaos during a TV-Show. Inspired by Jackson Pollock. Leica 10846 SL2-S Body + Summicron 35mm f/2.0.
Thomas Sixt in chef's jacket – culinary artist and visual storyteller.
Thomas Sixt © Bilderraum Hannover – From kitchen to camera: a storyteller rooted in taste and imagery.

Instead of a signature dish, I present my signature image. I am a chef, photographer, and visual storyteller of culinary symbolism.

What ends up on the plate for others becomes a motif for me – as a still life, as visual essence, as a collector’s item.

My works move between food art, still life, and symbolism. They tell of the essential in simplicity, of taste in imagery.

All works are issued in limited editions, hand-signed, produced to the highest quality, and available exclusively upon personal request.

Edition: Essence of Food – Still Life with Depth

Every ingredient tells a story. Every shape, color, and texture has character.

The “Essence of Food” series presents ingredients as protagonists – in a clear, calm visual language, far from decoration or food styling. Reduction to the essentials, captured in light and space.

These works invite you to pause, to discover the simple within the complex. Each work is available as a square Art Mini (19.2 x 19.2 cm), limited to 5 copies per motif.

Essence of Food is perfect for kitchens, restaurants, design spaces, and collectors who recognize simplicity as art. Price per number: €350 to €5,600.

Sun cut, grapefruit slice in vibrant lighting.
Sun Cut – Slice through the light. © Thomas Sixt 2023
Honeycomb wisdom, golden honeycomb in dramatic lighting.
Honeycomb Wisdom – Wisdom in honeycomb form. © Thomas Sixt 2023
Secret chamber, mysterious fruit in minimalist composition.
Secret Chamber – The hidden fruit chamber. © Thomas Sixt 2023
Golden silence, single apricot against black background.
Golden Silence – The calm of the moment © Thomas Sixt 2023
Tomato play, colorful tomato varieties arranged geometrically.
Tomato Play – Play of colors. © Thomas Sixt 2023
Violet secret, purple cauliflower still life.
Violet Secret – The secret in purple. © Thomas Sixt 2023

Culinary Symbols, Icons of Taste, Meta Food, Still Life with Attitude

This series presents motifs with subtext, irony, or personal stories.

Inspired by pop culture, society, music, or encounters. Images that provoke questions or shift perspectives. (Descriptions of 10 artworks as before)

Whether it’s called art, I leave to others. I call it: Position.

Teriyaki-glazed ingredients in chaotic artistic arrangement – abstract food composition inspired by Jackson Pollock.
“Teriyaki Meets Texture” © Thomas Sixt, Hanover 2025. The ingredients visually explode – an artistic view of creative kitchen chaos during a TV-Show. Inspired by Jackson Pollock. Leica 10846 SL2-S Body + Summicron 35mm f/2.0.
Kitchen still life with carrots, red sauce, and bandage on black board – dramatic food tableau inspired by Caravaggio.
“Kitchen Ballet and Crime Scene” © Thomas Sixt, Hanover 2025. When carrots cry and the bandage is already waiting: the accident site of a TV show kitchen, staged with blood sauce and black cutting board. Inspired by the baroque drama of Caravaggio. Leica 10846 SL2-S Body + Summicron 35mm f/2.0.
Two small plastic bottles of lime and lemon juice next to a vanilla pod – still life on artificiality and authenticity.
“Tribute to Frank Farian – Milli Vanilli” © Thomas Sixt, Hanover 2024. Lime green and lemon yellow meet a single vanilla pod – artificial and real side by side. A visual homage to pop illusion and identity, inspired by Frank Farian. Leica 10846 SL2-S Body + Summicron 35mm f/2.0.
Three purple eggs in colorful cups on yellow background – pop-art still life inspired by Andy Warhol.
A trio of purple eggs in contrasting cups, set against a yellow backdrop. Equal? Perhaps. Uniform? Certainly. A symbolic jury – imagined in the spirit of Andy Warhol. Leica 10846 SL2-S Body + Summicron 35mm f/2.0.
Fries with excessive ketchup, a touch of mayonnaise, and a blue plastic fork on white paper – served on marble. A provocative still life.
“German War” © Thomas Sixt, Berlin 2023. Fries on serving paper – a battlefield of red and white on cold marble.
Everyday banality meets luxury. A provocation in visual form. Leica Q2.
Three apples photographed from above in a basket – vivid still life with symbolic wicker texture.
“Without Sin (Kaa)” © Thomas Sixt, Berlin 2022. Three apples in a basket – a still life in motion.
The weave becomes a stage, the fruit a character. Leica Q2.
Mini bananas in a pastel-toned composition – a still life delicately playing with shape and meaning.
“Powder Rose Ranch” © Thomas Sixt, Hanover 2022. Mini bananas, grandly staged. One peeled – all eyes on it.
A still life balancing suggestion, shape, and imagination.. Fujifilm GFX50S II with GF45mmF2.8 R WR.
The word “Angela” formed from German and international ingredients – still life on cultural identity and transformation.
“Angela” © Thomas Sixt, Hanover 2024. A name made of ingredients. Familiar in the front, foreign in the back?
A still life about identity, change, and the question of who we want to be. Fujifilm X-T4 with XF 35 mm F1.4 R.
Shrimp sandwich held in a fish-head vase, symbolically consumed – still life reflecting the food chain.
“Circle of Life” © Thomas Sixt, Hanover 2024. A shrimp sandwich disappears into the mouth of a fish-head vase – the food chain, ironically reversed. Leica 10846 SL2-S Body + Summicron 35mm f/2.0.
Oversized fish in a pan with lemons, shrimp, and copper pot – surreal kitchen still life in homage to Édouard Manet.
“Fish Too Big” © Thomas Sixt, Hanover 2025. A fish wants to be cooked – but the pan is too small. Around it: fleeing lemons, galloping shrimp, and a copper pot silently observing. The round edge of the table closes the image like a circus tent – for a kitchen thrown off balance. Inspired by: Édouard Manet – Still Life with Fish (also known as Le Poisson, ca. 1864).
Leica 10846 SL2-S Body + Summicron 35mm f/2.0.

Table Works, Still Life Composition on the Plate

Here, plated food becomes a stage. But not staged for advertising or appetite, but for space, light, and feeling.

Table Works shows food as visual form, as expression, as a surface between staging and memory. Perfect for culinary spaces, restaurants, cooking schools, or private dining areas.

Shrimp skewer with green asparagus in sunlight, arranged on glass with black background – artistic still life in classical lighting.
“Sun Bite” © Thomas Sixt, Hanover 2025. A shrimp skewer rests atop glass – delicate, focused, almost sacral.
The sun-kissed shrimp meets the tender tip of green asparagus. Black as infinity, the background frames the composition.
A culinary still life inspired by the lighting and silent concentration of Georges de La Tour. Leica 10846 SL2-S Body + Summicron 35mm f/2.0.

Liquid Landscapes – Drinks as Visual Language

Cocktails, glasses, reflections – liquid light. Liquid Landscapes is my series about drinks, holiday moments, and visual depth.

Some images appear almost like landscapes, though they are drinks. Others recall nights, conversations, moods. Ideal for lounges, bars, kitchens, and collectors with a feel for the fluid.

Strawberry daiquiri photographed from above on wooden slats – with a distinct glass shadow in sunlight.
“Strawberry Shadow” © Thomas Sixt, Teneriffa 2025. A top-down view of a strawberry daiquiri, placed on a geometric wooden deck. Sunlight from the right casts the cocktail’s elongated shadow – iconic, precise, fleeting.

About Thomas Sixt

Thomas Sixt is a German artist, chef, food blogger, and cookbook author.

With his unique combination of culinary expertise and visual artistry, he has inspired people for many years – his recipes, photographs, and articles are read and used by a wide audience, particularly through his German recipe platform.

In his art project “The Art of Culinary Symbols”, he presents edible allegories – aesthetics in taste and form – creating works that unite pleasure, symbolism, and visual power in fascinating ways.

His work moves between food art, still life, and symbolic visual language – shaped by craftsmanship, experience, and personal conviction.

His work has been featured in numerous media outlets and is also referenced on Wikipedia:
Wikipedia – Thomas Sixt

Selected press and media coverage:

  • Passauer Neue Presse / Mediengruppe Bayern: Expert feature on New Year’s Eve fondue
  • Süddeutsche Zeitung: Interview on Gault&Millau and the Michelin Guide
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Expert commentary on food photography
  • rtv magazine: Recipes and professional tips
  • RTL.de: Interview on food blogs and photography
  • WELT.de: Expert interview
  • stern.de: Oktoberfest recipes and feature on training with Alfons Schuhbeck
  • BILD.de: Cooking with Ruth Moschner
  • BAMBI 2010: Live cooking in the press area
  • Apple iBooks Store: Feature on interactive recipes
  • W24-TV: Three-year broadcast of the cooking show “Headcam-Cooking”
  • Freizeit Revue, Lust auf Genuss, Men’s Health, News: Recipes and food features

Active in the culinary and creative field since the 1990s, Thomas Sixt was born in 1975 and brings decades of experience to both kitchen and camera.

How to Buy

Interested in a work? Just inquire.

This website serves solely to present my works. All pieces are sold individually upon request and by personal agreement.

I do not operate an online shop. Anyone interested in acquiring a work or edition can contact me directly at ts@thomassixt.de. I will provide information on available editions, pricing, and send a personal offer.

Prices range from €350 to €5,600 depending on edition and work. The stated prices, delivery terms, and payment conditions in the personal offer apply.

Every shipment is professionally packaged – with a certificate of authenticity, sent directly from my studio.

I also accept commissioned work – custom imagery for editorials, collectors, galleries, restaurants, and hospitality spaces.

If you’re looking for a visual statement tailored to your publication, location, or concept: I’m open to collaboration.

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Thomas Sixt
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D-30952 Ronnenberg
Germany

Email: ts@thomassixt.de

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