![[Lueb with his Brood]](./fotos_jpg/biopic.jpg)
A native Coloradan, Lueb was born in Boulder in 1960. His family moved to Cleveland in 1961 and settled in Deerfield, Illinois in 1965. When he was eight years old, his third grade teacher sent a note home to his parents encouraging them to send Lueb to the Art Institute in Chicago. He had a gift. For some long forgotten reason, Lueb's artistic talents were lost among other boyhood interests and activities.
After receiving a B.A. degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Colorado in 1984, Lueb chose a cooking career. He was apprentice to Luc Meyer at The Left Bank Restaurant in Vail for two years. He returned to Boulder to take a position as Sous Chef at John's Restaurant, and six years later became the Sous Chef at the Flagstaff House.
One day in 1995, Lueb happened to see a chainsaw carving of a bear and a raccoon outside a café in Niwot, Colorado. He had three chainsaws at home that he used for logging, and thought it might be fun to cut something other than firewood. The following Christmas he was given a video of the famous Minnesotan chainsaw carver, Jerry Farber. This sparked renewed interest but it wasn't until December of 1997 that his first carving was born.
Inspired by a kindness of a friend and a poem by Mary Oliver, "The Wild Geese," Lueb began his first carving of two Canadian geese. His second carving was for an old friend who had just lost three of his six ducks to a hungry eagle. When family friends lost their infant daughter shortly after birth, Lueb began carving "Playing With Angels" for her grave site.
Lueb's gift of carving is a reflection of his deep love and reverence for nature. Each work of art expresses the wildness that lives within us all. As an artist, Lueb has become an instrument of the soul. For him, inspiration entwined imagination, and a dream was born.