Martina Niederhauser-Landtwing

Martina Niederhauser paints depth, feeling, and beauty into her portraits of women. She seeks to share without words, painting the canvas as a “diary written in colors” with communicative forms and conjunctive lines: all expressing her life and her world. Inspired by line, Niederhauser paints on a highly textured patterned backgrounds composed of vintage book pages and sheet music. The collages which make up her backgrounds enhance the aged character of old paper from all over the world. Depth is first created in her backgrounds, then brought forward by varied layers of painting techniques as Niederhauser incorporates watercolor, pastel, oil, and gouache and more into her primarily acrylic portraits. Niederhauser’s major themes are life, emotion, feeling and relationships, and impactful moments and events from her inspirational life. Born 1977 and raised in Switzerland, Niederhauser has worked to become a full-time artist after living across three continents (Europe, Asia and Northamerica) and working in the corporate marketing world. When asked what she would do if she couldn’t be an artist Niederhauser says: “I would ask myself what is preventing me from becoming one.” With many successful years of work as an artist, including th...

self taught artist

2005 - 2008 traditional chinese Ink technique and caligrafy while living in Shanghai for 3 years

2010 - 2013 mixed media (acrylic, ink and oil) technique while living in Chicago for 3 years.

2023
OKKER ART GALLERY AMSTERDAM NL
ARTSPACEWAREHOUSE LOS ANGELES USA

2022
THE OTHER ARTFAIR VIRTUAL EDITION
GALLERY AMRHEIN OPTIK ENGELBERG/CH
OKKER ART GALLERY AMSTERDAM
ARTSPACE WAREHOUSE GALLERY LOS ANGELES
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2021/22 GALLERY AMRHEIN OPTIK ENGELBERG/CH
2021 AMRHEIN OPTIC SARNEN SWITZERLAND
2021 THE OTHER ARTFAIR VIRTUAL EDITIONS
2021 AFFORDABLE ARTFAIR AMSTERDAM
2021 AFFORDABLE ARTFAIR BRUSSELS
2021/2020 POP UP GALLERY METALLI ZUG/CH
2020 GALLERY AMRHEIN ENGELBERG/CH
2020 NOW TURBINE GISWIL/CH
2020 ECLECTIC GALLERY LONDON / UK
2020 AFFORDABLE ARTFAIR BATTERSEA/UK
2019 AFFORDABLE ARTFAIR LONDON HAMPSTEAD
2019 AFFORDABLE ARTFAIR AMSTERDAM NL
2019 FIRST ARTFAIR AMSTERDAM NL
2019 ART INNSBRUCK AUSTRIA
2018 ARTE BINNINGEN SWITZERLAND
2018 GALLERY ART333 WÄDENSWIL
2018 TALENTED ARTFAIR LONDON UK
2017 NOW TURBINE GISWIL/CH
VARIOUS EXHIBITION BEFORE 2017