Gerhard Nesvabda

Gerhard Nesvadba was born in 1941 in Ober-Ramstadt, Hessen, Germany. Apart from his father's encouragement, the few details of Nesvadba's early life and training include a high school teacher who recognized the talent in the young man who was constantly drawing and painting.

He completed his formal education in 1958 and began painting as an independently thinking artist. In 1962 Gerhard was married and moved to Vienna, where he and his wife had four children. There he settled down as a self-employed and independent painter and illustrator.

Gerhard participated in his first group exhibition in Stockholm in 1968. For the next several years he participated in additional exhibitions culminating in his first one-man show in Marble Hall of the Abbey, Copenhagen in 1971. At this exhibition, the Austrian Federal Ministry for the Arts and Education, the famous graphic collection, Albertine, and the Art Promotion Association in Copenhagen, purchased his works. In 1971 he received a scholarship from the Ministry for the Arts and an offer for teaching as a professor of the Arts. Nesvadba was a professor at the Ministry for several years until he decided to pursue painting full-time and to devote more time to raising his family. His son Christian is an artist of renown, who was influenced greatly by his father.

Gerhard Nesvadba belongs to the small cadre of genuinely skilled artists who have an innate command of the foundations of composition, color and light. Traditional in approach yet extremely personal in application, his rural landscapes and cottage scenes are effused with tranquil sunlight and his love of his work is evident in every piece.

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