Introduction
Robert Venosa (January 21, 1936 – August 9, 2011) was an American artist who resided in Boulder, Colorado, USA. He studied with what are termed the New Masters. His artworks reside in collections around the world.
Life and works
Venosa first studied under Mati Klarwein in New York. Later, he moved to Europe and studied with one of the founders of the Fantastic Realist movement, Ernst Fuchs (artist).
From these masters, he learned variations of a venerated painting technique developed in the mid 1400s, called the Mische Technique, which involves underpainting in water-soluble tempera with transparent oil paint glazes. While living in Vienna, Venosa met his second wife, the Austrian painter Jutta Venosa (born Cwik), with whom he had three children: Marcus,Celene and Christan. They moved to the coastal village of Cadaques, Spain, where he lived for fifteen years and befriended the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí. He later introduced H. R. Giger to Dalí.
Venosa traveled the globe with his partner Martina Hoffmann, teaching their painting technique. The technique derived from what Venosa learned from his teachers, differing in the material used for the underpainting (casein versus egg tempera) but, largely, following the same processes.
Venosa died on August 9th, 2011 having had cancer for eight years.
Related museums galleries collections
- Fantastic Art Centre
- Temporary Galerie in H.R. Giger Museum
Bibliography
- 1978 - Robert Venosa: Manas Manna (Big "O" Publishing) ISBN 0-905664-02-7
- 1991 - Robert Venosa: Noospheres (Pomegranate Communications Inc, US) ISBN 0-87654-817-6
- 1999 - Robert Venosa: Illuminatus (with Terence McKenna, Ernst Fuchs, H. R. Giger, and Mati Klarwein) (Craftsman House) ISBN 90-5703-272-4
- 2006 - True Visions (Erik Davis and Pablo Echaurren) (Betty Books) ISBN 88-902372-0-1
- 2007 - Metamorphosis (beinArt) ISBN 978-0-9803231-0-8