Christian Bahr

CHRISTIAN BAHR has been a passionate, profound contemporary German painter and experienced draftsman for over 35 years. His large abstract works can currently be found in private collections and public spaces in the US, Mexico, Canada, UK, China, Thailand, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Malta, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. His atmospheric large paintings are poetry and artistic struggle at the same time. They capture both harmony and conflict, overall reflecting a strong aesthetic. He has participated in many national and international exhibitions. What he believes in:

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“Not everything is art. But art is everything and everything breathes art in one way or another. Art is the true beauty of mankind.”

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“I work in my studio nearby the big German coastal city of Hamburg, on the North sea. I’m a seeker as a painter, in search of answers. The single human takes center stage. I work constantly, with great passion and discipline on my further artistic way. I have a clear, strong painting philosophy. And I deal with philosophical, mythological as well as with historical subjects in my works.”

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“I go my own way in my paintings. I find the source for my inspiration in me. Spontaneous action is the key, ...

Born in a snowy December night in Buxtehude (Germany). Educated in humanistic subjects, with a major certificate in Latin. He studied at a university level with diploma and then self studied artistic and historical subjects that came to him naturally. His love of art has always accompanied him. But it was not a straightforward path to the professional painter that he is today. It took time for him to develop his own convincing style in his art, repeating not only pleasing but also already well-known artistic positions. He needed the reason why he could neither live nor want to live without his art. His work needs this lack of distance, a high degree of individual emotionality. Today he is grateful for these detours. He says, they made him a very conscious, profound artist.

So for a while he was engaged in other career paths, in addition to and alongside art. He is also a cosmopolitan, connoisseur of the history of antiquity and the Middle Ages, veteran and bearer of the Medal of Honor of the German army (Bundeswehr), trained lifeguard. He was also on patrol with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency along the Mexican-American border and a trainer for the Russian customs administration. He says, all these very different, ve...

In the last decades, several international and national exhibitions (single and group exhibitions), e.g. in Santa Monica THE OTHER ART FAIR LOS ANGELES 2020.

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proud participant of the THE OTHER ART FAIR LOS ANGELES' ONLINE STUDIO, presented by Saatchi Art