Claus-Steffen Braun

My Pencil drawings are highly detailed and complex graphic works of a sensitive nature. Juxtaposed, closely observed scenes of life in Cape Town. These works are controversial and provocative, often poignant, a little intriguing and quite emotive. Each drawing tells it’s own tale.
My inspiration, as an artist is from a variety of truly, original local heroes that tell exciting visual stories of contrast and contradiction found in the environment around me. Cape Town is known for it’s bright colour and even brighter characters. Black & white are the colours I choose as they have given this land its unique diverse history. Storytelling is a predominant thread throughout my contemporary work. I call it Cape Town Stories.

20 years of Creative Director in Advertising: co-founder of the ADC Ukraine, shortlisted at Cannes Advertising Festival, Effie Award and Red Apple Grand Prix, Gold awards Golden Drum, ADC*UA, Idea Awards and the Kiev Festival. Silver Award Golden Hammer and the New York Festival, Bronze at the Epica Awards and the Art Directors Club in Germany.
Certificate of Visual Communication, HfG University of Art and Design,
Offenbach, Germany
Lithograph apprenticeship, Kaiserslautern, Germany,
A-level Charterhouse-School, Godalming Surrey, England,
A level and Secondary School Certificate Obertshausen Germany

2019 December, Group Exhibition, ManzArt Gallery Franschoek
2019 April-May, Group Exhibition, Art It Is Gallery Woodstock Cape Town,
2019 January, solo Exhibition, Craft and Graft, Gardens Cape Town,
2018 February, Group Exhibition, Art It Is Gallery Woodstock, My Art exhibited in our Himmelblau Boutique B&B Cape since 2013. 2019 Group Exhibition at Manz Art Franshook South Africa. Cape Town
2017 May, Group Exhibition Identity  Art It Is Gallery, Woodstock, Cape Town
2016 April, OMC Gallery in Los Angeles, USA
2014 December, Group Exhibition Rossouw Modern Gallery Hermanus
2014 February, Group Exhibition, Lovel Gallery Woodstock, Cape Town