About
Katharina Husslein, a German artist renowned for her hyperrealistic artworks, captures the essence of vibrant bouquets and lush impasto landscapes through oil paintings. Raised in a charming village surrounded by nature's splendor in the South of Germany, she embarked on a journey of artistic exploration by pursuing studies in London, UK. This immersion in a diverse cultural milieu broadened her creative vistas and allowed her to refine her artistic expressions. Her global sojourns, including stints in California, Australia, and New York, not only honed her skills but also provided invaluable insights into the art market.
Since 2019, Katharina Husslein has called Munich home, where she resides with her screenwriter husband and their two young daughters.
Her artistic footprint extends across Europe, with exhibitions gracing prominent cities such as London, Amsterdam, Basel and Hamburg. Additionally, her work has been showcased in Los Angeles, USA, garnering a widespread and international collector base.
Husslein's artistic philosophy marries a reverence for classical masterpieces with the immersive allure of contemporary still life and botany. Her signature style is characterized by meticulous hyperrealism, particularly evident in her still-life floral compositions. Central to her creations are the visual and tactile attributes of flowers, intertwined with their symbolism evoking themes of love, femininity, and the natural world. These elements coalesce to fashion Husslein's vivacious and captivating compositions.
In her artistic process, Husslein encapsulates the transient ecstasy of a fleeting moment, often when flowers are resplendent in full bloom. Her canvases frequently orchestrate an array of botanical species, harmoniously coexisting within a vase, transcending the boundaries of temporal accuracy. Rather than fixating on botanical fidelity, her oeuvres spotlight the interplay of colors, illumination, textures, and intricate minutiae, which collectively imbue her works with an enigmatic allure, captivating the observer.
Husslein as a painter of flowers - like the poet or even the botanist - chooses the subject for her art, as more than just a thing of beauty designed for appeal to the eye. Flowers are instead, a multidimensional subject which lends itself to a variety of artistic sensibilities. The flower is beautiful, but it is also a vital organism, an embodiment of nature and a fact of science, as well as a potent vehicle for symbolism - it can stand for love, is used in different religions for various gods and ultimately for peace amongst many others.
Katharina Husslein's art beckons spectators to bask in the enchantment of the present instant and embrace the kaleidoscope of nature's hues and forms. Through her creations, she elicits a profound sense of joy.
Little Flower - but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know, what God and man is.
-Tennyson
'Flower in the Crannied Wall' 1869
(From Reflections of Nature by Ella M. Foshay)
Exhibition CV
It all started when...
Education & Career
2009 Foundation Degree Art & Design Metropolitan University, London
BA in Fashion Buying Management Westminster University, London
Art Exhibitions
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg 2022 with Folly & Muse
Exhibition CV
2024 Female Empowerment, Kunstwarenhaus Zürich
2024 Affordable Art Fair Battersea with Folly & Muse
2024 Affordable Art Fair Hampstead with Newinger Art
2024 Affordable Art Fair Austin, Texas with Artspace Warehouse
2024 Affordable Art Fair Battersea Spring with Newinger Art
2024 Affordable Art Fair Hampstead with Newinger Art
2023 November Affordable Art Fair Hamburg with Folly & Muse
2023 November Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam with Newinger Art
2023 September ‘Ordinary but Extraordinary’ with Hunter Gallery, Bury St. Edmunds, UK
2023 September ‘Texture and Topography’ with Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles
2023 Exhibition ‘Flowers’ with Galerie Katapult, Basel, Switzerland
2023 August Aldeburgh Art Fair with Newinger Art
2023 May Affordable Art Fair Hampstead with Newinger Art
2023 April Discovery Art Fair Cologne with Newinger Art
Affordable Art Fair Battersea 2023 with Signet Contemporary
2023 March Affordable Art Fair Battersea Spring with Signet Contemporary
2023 February Affordable Art Fair Brussels with Folly & Muse
2022 December Exhibition with Edward Montgomery Fine Arts
2022 November Affordable Art Fair Hamburg with Folly & Muse
2022 October Affordable Art Fair Battersea with Signet Contemporary
2022 October Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam with Folly & Muse
2022 Signet Gallery, London, Summer Exhibition
2022 Artspace Warhouse ‘Room to Breahte’
Room to Breathe, Artspace Warehouse
Room to Breathe, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles
2021 Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam
2021 Affordable Art Fair Brussels
2021 Affordable Art Fair Hamburg
2019 Affordable Art Fair Brussels
2019 Affordable Art Fair Hamburg
2019 Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt