Anita Kaufmann

Born: 1965

Hometown: Munich

Based in: Regensburg

I’m working as a professional freelance artist since 2003. In 2009 I changed my life and moved onto a sailing yacht with my husband and two kids.
An incredible journey began: 6 years, 30.000 nm / 55.000 km, 28 countries. Storms, waves, transatlantic passages, the almost incomprehensible size of the Pacific, weeks with no land in sight, isolated islands... but also vibrant cities like Sydney, Panama City and New York, where we anchored in the Hudson river in front of the skyline of Manhattan for months. I spent one and a half year in French-Polynesia and got familiar with the Polynesian culture: Don‘t rush, take your time, live the moment.

During the years on the sea I got inspired by the different cultures and people I met, as a result my work changed from abstract art to human faces.

But sometimes I'm going back to my roots for abstract work. Mainly in elegant black & white, sometimes with colored accents, sometimes with silver/copper/gold leaves technique.

Today I‘m living and working in the wonderful medieval city Regensburg (world heritage) on an island in the river Danube.

Education:
Self-taught Artist,
further education:
Kunstakademie Bad Reichenhall - Germany
The University of Sydney - Australia

Exhibitions:

2020 Royal Academy of Arts - London - Exhibition Eco-Visionaries

2018 Aqua Art Miami - Miami Beach, FL 33139 - represented by Van Gogh Arts Gallery

2018 Discovery Art Fair / Frankfurt, represented by VanGoghArtGallery - Madrid

2018 Exhibition "Woman in Transit" Eclectic Gallery - London / Notting Hill

2018 Exhibition VanGoghArtGallery - Madrid / ESP

2018 Kunst SupermArt Nürnberg

2017 Künstlerhaus Andreasstadt - Regensburg / GER

2017 Exhibition „Portraits today“ - Galerie an der Donau _ Regensburg / GER

Anita Kaufmann In The Studio

During the years living on a boat at sea (circumnavigation 2009 - 2015) I had the chance to study so many different cultures, learning their way of living and the luck to make friends with so many different people. I feel it just natural, maybe ineluctable, that my paintings changed from abstract art to human faces. But more often nowadays I‘m getting back to my roots, to abstractions.