Anton Franz Hoeger is the Traditional Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of September 2018. He is a Munich Germany based, primarily self-taught, realist figurative painter. This realism, which is less prone to portray reality than to establish a reality, gives the viewer the feeling of encountering a new reality that has more weight than a mere image.

Anton’s Solo Art Exhibition will be featured on the website for the month of September 2018. The gallery will promote Anton and his work on the Fusion Art website, in Fusion Art’s Artsy.net Gallery, individual online press releases to hundreds of outlets, email blasts to over 2000 buyers, collectors, galleries and art professionals, in online event calendars, art news websites and through the gallery’s extensive social media outlets.  Fusion Art’s objective is to promote the Artist Spotlight winning artists, worldwide, to art professionals, gallerists, collectors and buyers.

Please read Anton’s Artist Statement below as he describes his history and inspiration in his own words. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see his exhibition.

If you are interested in purchasing any of these award-winning pieces, or to see more of Anton’s work, please visit his website.

Also, please visit Fusion Art’s YouTube Channel to see Anton’s Solo Art Exhibition Video.

Thank you to all the artists who participated in the Artist Spotlight competition and congratulations to Anton and the other Artist Spotlight winning artists.

Anton Franz Hoeger’s Artist Statement

Born 1956 in Munich Germany. Although I would call myself mainly self-taught, my artistic roots go back to the “Wiener Malschule”, taught by a master student of Prof. Ernst Fuchs.

I am a realist through and through, apolitical and not moralizing. This realism, which is less prone to portray reality than to establish a reality, rejects any emphasis and any dramatic sensation or satirical intent in a work of art. They are authentic creations, delimited from the abstract and from what one might call contemptuously illustrative.

I try to reproduce the found or invented motif in such a way that, as an artist, I give the viewer the feeling of encountering a new reality that has more weight than a mere image. I show people in their time, their environment, their situation. Always questioning the “being”. I let the observer slip into the figure of the depicted and himself according to self-assessment, intellectual foreknowledge, and but above all his own being (in the sense of José Ortega y Gasset ) he will have to face his own nature. Interesting, of course, and that is in contrast to the conventional “figurative painting”, the multi-layered interpretation options.

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