Frank Michael Preuss

Frank-Michael Preuss is a German photographer, painter and musician. He was born in Pinneberg, Schleswig-Holstein in 1958 and grew up in Nuremberg, Bavaria. Preuss is known as an influencer in online media and specialist for modern public relations. He works and lives in Hanover, Germany.
Preuss about his view on art
"I paint very strong expressive images. From a technical point of view I mostly move between gouache, tempera and acrylic. These paints are applied with brushes, sponges, scrapers, rollers, etc. and later processed. Different kind of materials / applications are sometimes integrated as well. Several pictures still contain the structure of the thick pastes or are even fitted with silk-tissue paper inserts. Sketchy charcoal is used now and again too.
Almost all of the pictures are done is a quick, impulsive way of working. Associations are transfered into color, emotions become motion, shapes sketch the room where I am staying mentally. Painting for me is both liberation and creation.<ref name=autogenerated1 />
I rarely paint representational. The pictures do not have names. I leave the interpretation to the viewer and do not meddle with terms and specifications. The viewer - thus - is able finds his or her own history represented and their own explanation for my pictures.
Repeatedly one will identify landscapes in my pictures, which seem strangely broken. So as a first impression people will think to see and seemingly recognize a lake, a forest, a plane. On closer inspection, however, on can easily find different interpretations. Initial perceptions are thus challenged and the perspective is willingly changed.
I leave the whole viewing the work to my audience. I don't paint fast consumable goods that are explained ad hoc by itself and without ambiguity. I want to create the magic of something new and of irrational worlds that evenutally have their own magic."<ref name=autogenerated1 />
Achievements
*1985 Prize-winner for an abstract journey photography - awarded by Agfa
*1986 Prize-winner of the Kodak professional photographer prize for modern portraits exhibition participations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
*1987 Multimedia work in the organization for visual communication in Hanover - topic: town and natural landscapes in the change
*1991 Prize-winner for an abstract journey photography - awarded by Agfa.
*1992 project support for a metal workshop in the Tramway Museum Wehmingen
*1994 Exhibition entitled "Venice, Christmas Eve" (SUB-Galerie, Hanover)
*Participation in different painting exhibition projects in recent years:
*2010 Solo exhibition at Hotel Viva Creativo in Hanover
*2011 - 2013 48 hours exhibitions in the Sofaloft Gallery, Hanover
*2013 solo exhibition at the gallery wetreu, Hanover
*2013 Exhibition at Café Mendelssohn, Hanover, entitled "Between Worlds"
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