Martin c herbst biography of martin
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Martin c herbst biography of martin
Martin C. Herbst
Born in Salzburg in 1965.
He studied painting at the Hochschule Mozarteum from 1984-1989, and later relocated to Vienna, where he resides today.
Martin C. Herbst is an Austrian painter, whose work focuses on an elaborate reevaluation of art historical themes and theories of classical portraiture and human figures.
His "subjects" are individual but at the same time portray the best work of their epochs.
The traditional intent to display the distinctive likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person is combined with witty and often unexpected forms of representation. Faces appear on spheres and look like caged moonfaces.
They are distorted when painted on curved panels, but look "normal" if the viewer perceives them from a certain point of view. Or they are painted very traditional, but exist in multiple versions.
His virtuosic, often monumental figurative paintings and objects appear paradoxically, at times cool, distant, mediated as well as