Surrealism

Mati Klarwein

By yannis • Dec 25th, 2007 in Surrealism, Uncategorized

His family was of Jewish origin and fled to Palestine when he was two years old after the rise of Nazi Germany. Klarwein grew up in Palestine but in 1948 when the territory was became Israel, his family traveled to Paris. There Mati studied with Fernand Leger, after attending the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Klarwein traveled south to Saint-Tropez and met Ernst Fuchs. He was greatly influenced by him.



Chen Shuzhong

By yannis • Dec 25th, 2007 in Surrealism

Chen Shuzhong’s worlds arise out of the magic world of Alice in Wonderland and Christian Andersen’s mythical stories.



Jacques Resch

By yannis • Dec 10th, 2007 in Surrealism

Anonymous Painter, Jacques Resch
Jacques Resch was born in the South of France on 26 February 1946.
Entirely self-taught, his passion for fine arts began at the age of 12 painting all subjects available to him, ranging from imaginary world landscapes to portraits. He painted his first works right at the beginning of his career in 1971 […]



Frank Kortan

By yannis • Dec 7th, 2007 in Surrealism

Frank Kortan was born in Prague and started the professional artistic carrier of a musician. He emigrates to Tessino (Switzerland), after one year he moves to Germany
he has been studying painting intensively, during studies he meets German Trompe-l’oeil scene and then he starts the professional carrier of a painter
graduated from Masaryk’s Academy of Fine Arts, Prague

He lives and works in Kalchreuth near Nürnberg, Germany.
His paintings have been exhibited in many individual or collective exhibitions (e.g. Salon d’Automne Paris/France, Salons de la Résidence du Louvre/Monaco Modern Art Museum, Salvador Dali Exhibition Musee Baron Martin Grey/France, Centre Culturel Peugeot Paris/France, Albrecht Dürer Haus Nuremberg/Germany).