Torsten Russ

my art is supposed to be very individual, it is my view of life, powerful, thoughtful and full of secrets.... my paintings tell stories rich of intensity and vitality.

about me:
Russ develops complex scenes and expressive and figurative pictorials, but in a different time frame. His nested and partly apocalyptic images are illustrated with modern figures, as perhaps only a painter who has lived and lived alive, can portray it. The oil paintings by Torsten Russ show strange scenes, crazy combinations of figures - humans and animals or combinations of both - pulled together to some nightmare-like syntheses that tell the viewer a story that he can never forget.Torsten Russ is an artist who feels at home in various media. Whether as a painter, draftsman, photographer or virtual artist, he also loves the "less is more". In the color, as well as in the composition. He plays with light and shadow. His reductions compete with works of opulence. His artistic language is recognized as recognizable and style-forming

- 2008: Art Award Winner "Blue - Orange", VR Bank

- 2011: nominated for St. Leonhard Peace Prize in Art, Vienna

- over 77 solo and group exhibitions, national & international

- Exhibitions and gallery representations in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Brazil

- Extensive catalog of works of art in many techniques and styles.