Martin Birkner

Martin Birkner is a german artist and photographer living in Dortmund, NRW.

Several years he was working as a designer and art director in the cinema industry - creating film posters. In this time he stepped more and more into photography. So he decided to make a living as a fulltime photographer, creating photos for business and advertising. In all of these years he was creating individual art-projects from digital photo-art over calligraphy up to handmade paintings.

Nowadays he is focussing on his artistic voice, mainly creating mixed media art (photography x painting). Using media like Oil(-Pastel) and Acryl-Colour refer to his love to classic art. Using spraypaint in lots of his artworks tell from his roots in streetart. In his pictures you can get a feeling of Gerhard Richter crossing the erotic photography by Helmut Newton crossing streetart.

In his young years he loved to draw and get experimental with photography. He was heavily influenced by the german Hip-Hop-Scene, Graffiti & Streetart. After finishing school he studied art and graphic design.There he received an art-education from classical painters and other artists with a realistic approach - from painting with oil-colour over scientific illustration up to drawing nudes. Later on he learned from well-known photographers like star-photographer and artist Nick Knight.