Discover the contemporary work of Wolfgang Graue

Vita

Dear visitor,

my name is Wolfgang Graue, I come from Germany and greet you from the beautiful little town of Celle, the southern gateway to the Lüneburg Heath.

In 2006 I realized a long-held dream - with my early retirement I am now living my "old love" of oil painting intensively. After studying basic knowledge (e.g. color theory) at the adult education center, I am largely self-taught, I have learned with each picture and it has become my own style of painting, and I can now say:

"Painting is my life"

Why use oil paints - brilliance, intensity, flexibility and durability have always fascinated me, and I also love the paintings of van Gogh, Monet, Rubens and Leonardo Da Vinci - all absolute masters of oil painting.

My pictures can be characterized as "naturalistic" / "realistic".

I try to depict the motif in my pictures as realistically as possible. The shapes and perspectives have to be right, the proportions and the colors have to fit, the highlights as well as the light and shadow.

The most important thing for me is that I can realize my wishes and dreams on the canvas - and do so with a lot of passion and love. In this way I create "my little perfect world" - and I want to take the viewer into it.

Since 2010 I have been showing my pictures in regular exhibitions at home and abroad. Numerous paintings are in private and public ownership.

In and with the online gallery "Teravarna" I have received numerous awards in recent years, including a first prize on the topic of nature.