Anton Franz Hoeger

"I am a realist through and through, apolitical and not moralizing. This realism, which tends less to represent reality than to establish a reality, rejects any emphasis and any dramatic sensation or satirical intention in a work of art. They are authentic creations, separated from the abstract and from what one could contemptuously call illustrative. I try to depict the found or invented motif in such a way that as an artist I give the viewer the feeling of encountering a new reality that has more weight than just an image."

I show people in their time, their environment, their situation. Always questioning the “being”. I let the observer slip into the figure of the depicted and himself according to self-assessment, intellectual foreknowledge, and but above all his own being (in the sense of José Ortega y Gasset ) he will have to face his own nature. Interesting, of course, and that is in contrast to the conventional “figurative painting”, the multi-layered interpretation options.

Although I would call myself mainly self-taught, my artistic roots go back to the “Wiener Malschule”, taught by a master student of Prof. Ernst Fuchs.

2005 - Soloexhibition Montreal (Gora-Gallery)
2005 - Soloexhibition Soho, New York, (Agora-Gallery)
2006 - Groupexhibition Chelsea, New York (Agora-Gallery)
2006 - Soloexhibition Munich (Realismusgalerie)
2007 - Biennale Florenz
2008 - Soloexhibition Bamberg (Kunstgalerie Senger)
2009 - Soloexhibition Bamberg (Kunstgalerie Senger)
2010 - Groupexhibition Tübingen (Schedhalle)
2011 - Soloexhibition Munich (Kunstgalerie Stumpf)
2011 - Kunstpreis Blau-Orange der Stadt Coburg
2012 - Groupexhibition Munich (Kunstgalerie Stumpf)
2012 - Soloexhibition Munich (Kunstgalerie Stumpf)
2013 - Soloexhibition Munich (Kunstgalerie Stumpf)
2013 - Art Stroke Munich
2013 - Groupexhibition Essen (Kunstgalerie am Turm)
2013 - Groupexhibition Coburg (Kunstverein)
2014 - Groupexhibition Munich (Kunstgalerie Stumpf)
2014 - Art Stroke Munich
2014 - Soloexhibition Munich (Kunstgalerie Stumpf)
2014 - Art Fair Cologne
2015 - Art Stroke Munich
2015 - Soloexhibition Munich (Kunstgalerie Stumpf)
2016 - NordArt
2016 - Art Fair Cologne
2017 - HDLU Zagreb (Museum for contemporary art - Soloexibition)