Hans Feyerabend
Ancient legends, medieval fairies, timeless beasts, and contemporary office clerks are some of the leading subjects in the works by German painter, Hans Feyerabend. Each painting captures the essence of a specific moment with a host of kaleidoscopic facets.

The portrayals demand abandonment of "seeing as usual". They are their very own reality. A world, in which formal relationships of colors and shapes combine in equilibrium to hold the paintings together and to give them their unique quality. The balance of conceptual forms and depicted subjects lends the paintings their inner tension, and giving rise to powerful compositions.

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Autobiography

I was born in 1965 near Berlin in former East Germany. I grew up with a ten foot tall white concrete obstacle in my backyard - in the shadow of part of the best known symbol of the cold war: the Berlin Wall. Though an ever-present physical barrier, it did not limit the curiosity of a child nor his attempts to test its power.   In many respects, the Wall tempted the imagination it so desperately tried to suppress.

After serving a compulsory 18 months in the army, I started studying Architecture at the Academy of the Arts in East Berlin in 1987. As a perceptive student in a stimulating environment at that time in this city one was more or less automatically actively involved in the movement which led to the ultimate fall of the Wall in November 1989. Not only was the whole world now suddenly open, but the studies in Architecture itself transformed in meaning.

After attending a one year course in general Practical Art, I continued to paint, draw, and sculpt parallel to my major studies.    I completed my Master in Architecture in 1992 and started to work as an Architect in Berlin with great enthusiasm. At this point, I applied for a scholarship abroad at the German Academic Exchange Service.

In 1993 I attended the School of Design in Raleigh, North Carolina. I preferred that destination since my former university had an partnership with the Architectural Department there.