CHRISTIAN BAHR

Joined Artfinder: March 2016

Artworks for sale: 109

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Germany

About CHRISTIAN BAHR

 
 
  • Biography
    My name is CHRISTIAN BAHR. I have been working as a contemporary German painter and draftsman for over 35 years, with worldwide sales and with national and international exhibitions. My atmospheric large paintings are poetry and artistic struggle at the same time and capture both harmony and conflict, overall reflecting a strong aesthetic. I use an abstract-expressionistic visual language and prefer an expressive and powerful execution. My extensive œuvre includes several hundred paintings (mostly in large format) and countless drawings, body studies, nudes and illustrations. My works are to be found in private collections and public spaces in the United States, China, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, Australia, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Russia and Belarus until now. And commissioned works – especially in (very) large formats – are also part of my repertoire.

    Painting is for me something great, serious and very original. I work in my studio nearby the rough North Sea and the big German coastal city of Hamburg. I’m a seeker as a painter, in search of answers, and the single human takes center stage. I am a profound, passionate and disciplined artist. I have a clear and strong painting philosophy. Thematically I deal with philosophical, mythological and historical questions in my work.

    I go my own way in my painting. I find the source for my inspiration – in many cases also for the motif – in me. Spontaneous action is the key, my preferred method. I work intuitively and in most cases without previous sketches, because I do not need a creative distance, I also do not construct a completely new world. I only reduce the view of our surroundings. Added value and clarity through abstraction. It must be rough, original, melancholic and dark, at the same time bright, poetic, clear and full of hope. No maybe, no lukewarm. Every moment counts, is important and can contribute to a sudden change in the painting. I do not sacrifice my lines for an abstract idea, and I love the painterly risk that results from the spontaneous, the radicalism in all the decisions to be made during the process of creation. That’s exactly how I paint.


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Biography

My name is CHRISTIAN BAHR. I have been working as a contemporary German painter and draftsman for over 35 years, with worldwide sales and with national and international exhibitions. My atmospheric large paintings are poetry and artistic struggle at the same time and capture both harmony and conflict, overall reflecting a strong aesthetic. I use an abstract-expressionistic visual language and prefer an expressive and powerful execution. My extensive œuvre includes several hundred paintings (mostly in large format) and countless drawings, body studies, nudes and illustrations. My works are to be found in private collections and public spaces in the United States, China, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, Australia, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Russia and Belarus until now. And commissioned works – especially in (very) large formats – are also part of my repertoire.

Painting is for me something great, serious and very original. I work in my studio nearby the rough North Sea and the big German coastal city of Hamburg. I’m a seeker as a painter, in search of answers, and the single human takes center stage. I am a profound, passionate and disciplined artist. I have a clear and strong painting philosophy. Thematically I deal with philosophical, mythological and historical questions in my work.

I go my own way in my painting. I find the source for my inspiration – in many cases also for the motif – in me. Spontaneous action is the key, my preferred method. I work intuitively and in most cases without previous sketches, because I do not need a creative distance, I also do not construct a completely new world. I only reduce the view of our surroundings. Added value and clarity through abstraction. It must be rough, original, melancholic and dark, at the same time bright, poetic, clear and full of hope. No maybe, no lukewarm. Every moment counts, is important and can contribute to a sudden change in the painting. I do not sacrifice my lines for an abstract idea, and I love the painterly risk that results from the spontaneous, the radicalism in all the decisions to be made during the process of creation. That’s exactly how I paint.


 
 
 

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