ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES - BRUNO HAAS

Bruno Haas was born on the fourth of January 1939 in Schopfheim, Germany. He has worked and studied throughout Europe, including Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Greece and Austria; and in 1963 earned a Craftsman's Certificate as a painter and decorator. His formal education took place at the Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria and at the European Art Academy Trier. There he studied with Giselbert Hoke, Volker Altrichter, Kiki Kogelnic, and Jim Dine.

In his painting, Haas not only works objectively, but also abstractly. There is often a narrative and poetic inducement, an impulse: a relevant thought to continue to follow, though the direction of thought is completely open. His work is dreamy and fantastic, playful and suggestive. He is influenced by color and surroundings, such as "the northern lights" which he experienced in his travels in Northern Europe, or the earthy colors-rust, ochre, grey and sand found in pictures from Hokes.

On all of his work there is red spot-a stamp-' which is his name in Chinese. Used as a structural element in his compositions, it is also a metaphor for the symbolic stamp that people eventually get characterized in throughout their lives.

Since 1976, Haas has participated in many solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad.