Hans Bauer

Austrian-born Hans Bauer is a screenwriter (Anaconda), novelist (Fishtale, Anaconda: The Writer’s Cut), and creator of photo-based art. He divides his time between Kerrville, Texas, and Los Angeles, California.

My image world consists of people and landscapes unfamiliar to most, perceivably strange and ethereal, where place and subject merge fact and fiction; hinterlands where the veil has been lifted, far-flung outposts, port cities of the imagination, haunted territories, transition points between worlds, whirlpools spilling into parallel dimensions, shrouded lands straddling the waypoints between desire and dreams.
The whole world, everything we consider sane and normal, might well be a leather ball filled with air. In some places, the leather has been scuffed away to nothing. Ideally, my images transport the viewer to those landscapes of magical realism where the dividing line is thinner, masked, mystical, chimerical cities and citizens of the mind, at great distance, but near enough to touch.
The people in these images do not speak English, French, Chinese, or any known language. That they somewhat resemble us is mere coincidence. Their maker has traveled beyond the edge and returned with pictures. To the center of the ea...

Hans Bauer's photo-based art has appeared in solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco and numerous Texas galleries.