Hanns Leeb: My Poetic Ladies

Biography

born in Passau, Germany .
Since early youth occupied with drawing and painting.
Instruction in drawing by Prof. Rothschink and K. Ramisch in Passau
Drawing course from the Remote Academy Kamprath, Darmstadt
Working by profession in the fields of chemical graphics , retouching and advertisement graphics.
For 18 years member of the Art Association Landshut, including seven years on the club's executive committee.
Winner of the "Lorenzo-il-Magnifico"-Award in recognition to his artistic career at the 3rd Biennale Internazionale del l'Arte Contemporanea, Florence, 2001.


About the Artist

Hanns Leeb considers himself selftaught. He comes from Expressionism and developed a romantic-poetical painting style in which he unites the condition of soul and the meaning of the landscape into a complete contemplative picture. Numerous of the coloured and black and white drawings of his collection "Bejeweled Women" had their origin in a graphic series "Vernissage". These pictures show - in addition to other many-sided basic themes - the woman as the center point of society and as its victim as well. The female figures in "Bejeweled Women" have freed themselves from t...

Exhibitions:

Annual Art Exhibition of Art Association Landshut und Art Association Passau
1991 Atelier Pauli, Kammer: "Lower Bavarian Landscapes"
1991 Hypo-Bank Landshut: "Lower Bavarian Landscapes"
1992 - 1998 art exhibitions "Art in the Corner", Landshut
1993 Townhall Gallery, Landshut: "Landscapes"
1998 Townhall Gallery Landshut: "The Bejeweled Woman"
2001 Sparkasse Landshut: "Reality and Phantasy" - drawings
2001 Participation in the 3rd Biennale Internazionale del l'Arte Contemporanea, Florence
2003 Sparkasse Landshut: "The Language of Drawings" - landscape paintings
2003 Participation in the 4th Biennale Internazionale del l'Arte Contemporanea, Florence
2004 Participation exhibition Art-Domain.Com Gallery Mallorca - Port Andratx
Participation in Mariapfarr (Lungau), Austria - Austrian artists as participants of Biennale Florence exhibit.
2005 Gallery Dr. Bhner, Mannheim: Hommage to Picasso (14 pictures)
2005 Gallery Dr. Bhner, Mannheim: Hommage to Picasso (11 pictures)
2008 Opera Gallery Budapest (participation)
2008 Landshut: landscapes ,