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Artist Statement:
Painting is a unique way of
expressing myself, in which I
am able to reach the viewer on
various levels of perception.
I aim to challenge the viewer
to not just look at the piece,
but to work with it. By
consciously omitting
unnecessary elements, and at
the same time working out
exactly the few details that
explain a particular form, I
almost force the beholder to
step back and piece the
components together from a
distance.
Only then the parts of the
painting begin to make sense.
When the complete vision is
established in the viewer’s
inner eye, then the time has
come to take a closer look and
explore how a seemingly random
brushstroke here and there has
helped to create that vision.
In this manner I am able to
project my personal philosophy
that nothing can be viewed in
isolation, but has to be seen
in relation to its
environment, in other words,
“The Bigger Picture”, on a
blank canvas.
My paintings are meant to be a
piece of décor designed to
enrich the environment in
which they hang. If the
beholder of a piece of my art
feels at peace by merely
looking at ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Jul 06-Jun 07 2 entries in
group @ Upstream People
Gallery
8th International Landscape
(juried)
Omaha, Nebraska
May 06-Jun 06 Solo @ Harding
House B&B
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jul 05-Sep 05 1 entry in group
@ Energy Gallery
2-d Landscapes International
(juried)
Toronto, Canada
Jul 05-Sep 05 1 ...
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Artist Galleries:
OUT OF THE BLUE GALLERY
168 Brookline St., Cambridge
Mass.
CAMBRIDGE ART ASSOCIATION
25 Lowell St., Cambridge
Mass....
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Collections:
Ambassador Swanee Hunt,
Massachusetts, USA
City Hall of Baden, Austria,
Office of the Mayor...
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Commissions:
Ms. Oathout, Massachusetts,
USA
Ms. Totovig, Massachusetts,
USA
Ms. Klingenstein,
Massachusetts, USA
The Smith Family, Denver,
Colorado
Mr. Aquino, Massachusetts, USA
Ms. Nickerson, Massachusetts,
USA
The Calder Family, Germany (2)
Ms. Habeler, Austria
The Gauger Family, Michigan,
USA
CASPAR, Inc., Massachusetts,
USA
Ms. Wismer, Illinois, USA
The Gauger Family, Minnesota,
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Artist wins prize at Pennsylvania gallery
Arlington Advocate, Thursday, May 27, 2004
Local artist Christian Friedrich Brunner's painting "Vineyards" was chosen Grand Prize Winner in the upcoming exhibition of ImagineStation, LLC, a gallery based in Lehigh Valley, Penn. The show can be seen on the Internet starting June 1.
Brunner moved from his home country Austria to Arlington in 1997 and since has had more than 20 exhibitions of his work in Arlington, Cambridge and Boston, including a gallery on Newbury Street. One of Christian's pieces, "Old Schwamb Mill" can currently be seen at the "Images of Arlington" exhibit at the Arlington Center for the Arts.
He is a member of the Arlington Center for the Arts, the Cambridge Art Association and a signature artist of the Out of the Blue Gallery in Cambridge, where he teaches an art class (Painting with Expression) every Wednesday evening.
The artist has sold more than 50 paintings to local, national (Denver, Chicago etc.) and international (Austria, Germany, France) collectors in the last few years. One of his paintings is on public display in the town hall of his home town of Baden.
He studied art with Alex Huebl, a graduate from the Academy of Visual Arts in Vienna, Austria, and Toni Wichtl and Sigi Krupauer, both graduates from the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria.
His passion is Austrian Expressionism (late 19th, early 20th century). This particular movement of Expressionism occurred with Freud's discovery of psychoanalysis, the end of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and the looming threat of World War I. In this time of change, artists dealt - for the first time in art history - with their angst and with the souls of their subject matters, may that be persons,
still lives or landscapes.
His other zeal is French Impressionism, especially Monet, who he adores for his courageous paintings back then.
The Arlingtonian has a day job as director of Project Connect, a program of Cambridge-based Shelter, Inc., giving homeless, low income and unemployed people access to telecommunication technology such as voice mail, computers and Internet.
The full body of work can be viewed on the Internet at www.christianbrunner.com.
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