Fantasy Contemporary art
Margit Balla is a Hungarian artist, graphic artist, illustrator, director, stage designer and costume designer.
She studied typography at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest, mainly making posters, book illustrations, later working more and more with pictorial graphics. In her posters Margit Balla combines impressions from old prints with contemporary trends such as pop art. Her figurative compositions are easily recognizable by her special surrealistic drawing style.
Since 2000, Margit Balla has been working as a production designer for the Budapest Puppet Theater.
Moritz Baumgartl is a German painter, graphic artist and university professor living in Stuttgart.
Moritz studied at the Stuttgart State Academy of Fine Arts and worked for a long time as an art teacher at the Friedrich Eugens Gymnasium in Stuttgart. Baumgartl founded the art group "Stuttgart School" together with the artists Axel Arndt and Adam Lüde Döring.
Jonas Burgert is a German figurative artist living and working in Berlin.
Jonas Burgert graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and studied as a graduate student (Meisterschueler) under Prof. Dieter Hacker in Berlin, and his work has been characterized from the very beginning by its vivid originality.
Burgert's paintings are filled with fantastic figures of the most unimaginable proportions. In the spaces of his panoramic paintings, one is immersed in a visual chaos of narrative layers, amidst mysterious events, strange figures and creatures. Jonas Burgert's large-format paintings are dominated by the grotesque, the bizarre and the surreal. Nightmarish zombie-like figures invade his pictorial worlds, frightening and appealing at the same time.
Since 1998 his work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions around the world, Jonas Burgert is now very successful and his works are very willingly acquired by many galleries.
Fabrizio Clerici was an Italian painter, draftsman, illustrator, scenographer and architect.
Clerici earned a degree in architecture and was greatly influenced by antiquities, Renaissance and Baroque painting and architecture. In 1943, Clerici held his first solo exhibition at the Galleria dell'Arte Cairola in Milan, featuring drawings, watercolors, lithographs and etchings. His first book illustrations belong to the same period.
In 1947, Clerici began a prolific career in theater, ballet and opera with his debut as a stage designer in a production of George Bernard Shaw's play Mrs. Warren's Profession. The following year he participated for the first time in the Venice Biennale. There he met Salvador Dalí and created the sets and costumes for Igor Stravinsky's Orpheus, which was performed at the La Fenice Theater. In 1949 he created large-scale architectural fantasy paintings.
The further life of the multifaceted artist Fabrizio Clerici was full of work in a variety of fields of art, creative successes and exhibitions. His work has been exhibited in many museums in the United States, including MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum, as well as in France, such as the Pompidou Center.
Erro, real name Guðmundur Guðmundsson, is a contemporary Icelandic painter.
Erro studied painting at the Reykjavik and Oslo Art Academies between 1952 and 1954. He then moved to Italy, where he studied mosaic art in Florence and Ravenna until 1958.
Erro participated in the Venice Biennale in 1986. In 1989 he donated a large part of his works to the Reykjavik Art Museum.
The style of the paintings created by Erro lies on the border between surrealism and pop art. The main theme of his paintings is the depiction of modern civilisation, its technical perfection and its inhumanity. He also uses comic book techniques and science fiction themes in his work.
Ralph Gelbert was a German abstractionist painter.
He studied at the Accademia Belle Arti in Florence and became known for his large format vivid paintings. Ralph Gelbert's style of painting is impulsive, a form of art of body movements that do not rely on a pre-designed concept, but follow a physical dynamism and sensual logic. Fantastic spaces emerge in his works, artificial worlds that are neither illustrations of existing places nor subjective inner spaces.
Ralph Helbert knows the language of color like no other. In his abstract and very expressive painting the artist prefers pure and bright colors, he paints in layers, interspersing each with drying, and thus revealing the individual power of each color.
Rachel Goodyear is an English painter-drawer and sculptor who works in the dark fantasy genre. She is known for her dark humor, fantastical subjects with corpses, masks, animals, etc. Creating her paintings and collages, the artist uses watercolor, gold leaf on paper, and produces porcelain sculptures.
Uwe Henneken is a German artist living and working in Berlin.
Henneken began his studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and completed his studies at the University of the Arts in Berlin. In his grotesque, amusing and fabulous paintings and sculptures, the artist transports the viewer into strange worlds. Especially impressive are the brightly colored landscapes, as in a surrealistic fever dream. In these psychedelic sets move figures unimaginable in reality, sometimes comic and cartoonish, sometimes tragic, and sometimes both at the same time.
Henneken has spent a lifetime researching the theme of shamanism and believes that the shaman is the prototype of the artist and therefore the contemporary artist is directly connected to his professional ancestor. Promoting the idea of otherworlds, through magical realism the artist brings magic to real life.
Benedikt Hipp is a German painter and sculptor who lives and works in Munich and Amsterdam.
Hipp studied at the academies of fine arts in Nuremberg, Munich and Bologna. Even during his studies he attracted attention with his characteristic works. His paintings and panels, some of them large format, are created in the technique of the old masters - oil paints on wooden panels and varnished.
For example, one of Hipp's latest works, the series "Ocean Bark" embodies an artistic confrontation with the last unexplored corner of our earth - the depths of the sea. These works are created as a result of a rather complex technological process and create a fantastic impression reminiscent of surrealism. Architecture, animals and people are alienated, united and presented in a disturbing, dreamlike way.
Benedikt Hipp is an extremely versatile artist who expresses himself in several genres. He has works on paper, collages and ink drawings, recently focusing on objects and sculpture as well as spatial installations.
In 2021, Hipp was awarded the Rome Prize Fellowship of the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo, Germany's most renowned award for artists.
Bernhard Jäger, born on June 17, 1935, in Munich, Germany, is a multifaceted artist known for his work as a painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Initially pursuing biology between 1956 and 1957, Jäger later shifted to art studies at the Werkkunstschule Offenbach, graduating in 1961. His background in biology notably influenced his artistic career, adding a unique depth and perspective to his creations.
Jäger co-founded the Gulliver-Presse with fellow lithographer Thomas Bayrle, and during this time, he also embarked on a secondary career as a publisher until 1966. His contributions to the world of book art are significant, with some of his illustrated books being awarded the prize "Die schönsten Bücher des Jahres" by the Stiftung Buchkunst in 1970, 1984, and 1994. He is also known for designing thirty book covers for Jorge Luis Borges' "The Library of Babel" published by the Gutenberg Book Guild in 2007.
Besides his contributions to book art, Jäger has held positions as a guest lecturer and head of the evening school at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. He also served as a visiting professor at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Bernhard Jäger is a member of the Darmstadt Secession and a recipient of the Prize of the Heitland Foundation in 1998. His works are included in public collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Klingspor Museum, Offenbach.
For collectors, auctioneers, and experts in art and antiques, Bernhard Jäger's work offers a rich blend of artistic styles influenced by his diverse background. His works, especially his lithographs known as "X-ray graphics," are sought after in the art market.
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Ryszard Krynski is a Polish fantasy painter with contemporary themes.
He paints in the painstaking technique of glaze painting. Each picture of the artist surprises in his own way, conducting a dialogue between the past and the present, reality with a joke.
Ryszard Krynski has exhibited his works at numerous collective and individual exhibitions in Poland and abroad. He is a member of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers.
Horst G. Loewel is a German-born painter who lives and works in Canada and Spain.
Loewel is a representative of the fantastical-surrealistic trend in art. He meticulously and realistically depicts landscapes of another universe filled with symbolism. Thanks to his boundless imagination, the artist shows us a fabulous, unreal world in which man has almost no place.
Vera Mercer is a German-born photographer who lives and works in France and the United States.
In the early 1960s she became part of the artistic avant-garde in Paris, which later became known as the "New Realists" (Nouveau Réaliste), photographing movie stars and avant-garde artists of the time. Later she found a new inspiration.
Mercer creates extraordinary large-scale photographic still lifes of food. With the right lighting and carefully chosen compositions of china, cutlery, fruit, seafood and game, Mercer's photographs resemble still lifes in the Dutch Baroque style. With burning candles and artful arrangements, the paintings, flooded with mystical light, are also a reinterpretation of classic vanitas motifs.
Leonardo Nierman, full name Leonardo Nierman Mendelejis, is a Mexican artist known mainly for his paintings and sculptures. His work is abstract yet still contains visible images of nature such as birds, water, lightning and more. His paintings are in pure colours, while his sculptures are usually in metal, often with a silver hue.
Paul Noble is a British artist, draughtsman and sculptor living and working in London.
Paul Noble studied at Sunderland Polytechnic and Humberside College of Higher Education in Hull. He was one of the five founding members of City Racing, an influential community of artists in London in the 1990s.
Although his practice encompasses drawing, sculpture and animation, Paul Noble is known primarily as a meticulous draftsman creating complex schemes. His compositions, based on fictional urban architecture, reflect disorder, circuit logic and self-portraiture at the same time. His best known conceptual project, Nobson Newtown, was first shown in a solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery in 1998. This series of large-scale drawings depicts a fictional city run by architect Paul, Noble's alter ego.
In addition to pencil drawings, the artist works in a combined drypoint and aquatint technique. He starts drawing from the upper left corner, gradually filling the entire space, and some large-scale drawings reach a size of 7 x 6 meters.
Antoine Piron-Meyer, also known as Agni, is a Swiss painter and sculptor.
He is one of the founders of the Vaisseau group, which is known for its murals in various countries, including Russia. As a teenager, Piron-Meyer was fascinated and inspired by the works of Hieronymus Bosch, whose motifs can be found in his work.
