Christian Brunner

Christian Brunner lives in Arlington MA in the United States of America. He is a contemporary oil and pastel artist. Christian Brunner was chosen as the grand prizewinner in an exhibition of Imagine Station LLC, a gallery in Lehigh Valley Penn. Over 50 paintings of Christian Brunner have been sold to national and international collectors in the last few years

Christian Brunner is a native of Austria. He was educated in Baden with focus on visual arts. Christian Brunner graduated from the Viennese School of Fine Arts. From 1984 to 1985 Christian Brunner was an art instructor at the Baden Center for Adult Education. Christian Brunner relocated to the United States in November 1997. In 2000 he did a course in Abstract Painting at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.

Painting is Christian Brunner's way of expressing himself. Christian Brunner reaches the viewer on various stages of perception through his paintings. Christian Brunner paints by consciously leaving out unnecessary details and keeping only a few elements that have to be pieced together to make sense. Apparently random brushstrokes help create vision in the creations of Christian Brunner. Through his paintings, Christian Brunner projects his personal philosophy that nothing can be viewed in isolation. Everything has to be seen in relation to its environment. The paintings of Christian Brunner are pieces of décor, intended to enhance the surroundings in which they hang. His paintings have elements of Austrian Expressionism and French Impressionism. Most important works of Christian Brunner include South Boston sea Shore, South Cape Cod Lighthouse, Winterly Rockpot, Cape Cod Fishertown, Fate of the Capote and Early Spring on Spy Pond.

More than twenty exhibitions of the works of Christian Brunner have been held in Arlington, Cambridge and Boston. Christian Brunner has a day job as director of project Connect, a program of Cambridge-based Shelter Inc. he is also a member of the Arlington Center for the Arts, the Cambridge Art Association and a signature artist of the Out of the Blue Gallery in Cambridge.