Hanjo schmidt biography of rorys baby

In 2008 a series of Hanjo Schmidt’s paintings were included in an exhibition entitled ‘Gesichter’ (Faces) in Weil der Stadt, a town near Stuttgart. In the catalogue for the exhibition, the art critic Adrienne Braun wrote her thoughts about his work:

Hanjo Schmidt works mostly from photographs, but rather than attempting to create photorealistic paintings his aim is to express the movement of the person and the feelings she or he feels at the moment the photograph was taken.
     Schmidt paints in acrylic, and often uses a cheap brush applying paint in rather crude, fast strokes.

His style is loud and dominant, the colours are based on what you he sees, but are often carried to an extreme. The surprising thing is that even with these crude, raw brushstrokes the model is defined in a perfectly precise way.

Shining eyes, pupils with sharp contours, a sinewy neck or bony shoulder blades: everything is unambiguously defined, and yet this is a type of painting that does not a