I was born in Paris, which makes me French. I grew up in a family of painters, sculptors, and art merchants. In France and Italy, I studied under the artists Gérard Ambroselli and Antonietta Tuti where I received strong influences in impressionism and abstractionism. I was educated in Italy, France, England and finally in the United States where I lived for over twenty years. I have shown my work in the United States, South America, and Europe. For the past fifteen years, I have lived parallel lives, one focused on high-tech and the other focused on art, and until very recently never mixing the two. In this world of right-brain and left-brain, I have found the stimulus for creating my paintings. My work borders representational and non-objective art. All of my work is based on abstract shapes and emotions I see and feel. Nature is my biggest driver. As an expressionist, my objective is to take elements from nature, abstract them, and treat them by means of emotive color, texture, and shapes, driving the viewer to react to my work personally.
Over the years I have developed a technique where I paint with both oil and water-based colors on the same canvas, focusing on the ability to mix and work with the colors simultaneously, completely in the wet. I create emotion with a lot of depth and many layers of material on top of each other, adding pencil, crayon, oil pastels as well as dirt, leaves and "stuff" that allows me to create truly unique pieces of art.
- JoinedFebruary 2007
- OccupationArtist - Painter & Photographer
- HometownParis, France
- Current cityBoston
- CountryUnited States
- Emailhanswendland@gmail.com
Testimonials
HANS IS A GREAT PHOTOGRAPHER-PERIOD!!!!-THANKS FOR THE INSPIRATION