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Jan F. Welker 45, Male
Waiblingen, Germany

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Website
http://www.atelier-welker.de
Relationship status
married
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Artist
If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
Painting
I am...
born in 1964 in Hamburg,
freelance artist since 1993,
chairman of VBKW-Rems-Murr / BBK,
lives in Waiblingen / Stuttgart
About my artwork
fictive and real



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When laughter can be heard from windows ajar on the first floor,
when now and then a paint brush is held into the air to compare colours,
then you can be sure our dear Jan. F. Welker is at home –
our official artist, father of three and accepted and respected freethinker.

Human beings, figures, who fade away in oil, re-appear, being scratched from where they were hidden - under various layers of paint. They overlap, superimpose - ask for attention. These are the ones who are the most precious to him. “What is the matter with the portrayed? What makes them tick?
What moves them to emotions?” One need not know everything, he says,
and fathoms his characters at the same time. “These portrayed humans are the very reason for my work, and sometimes the ‘primary coating’ – in its literal meaning.

An effective connections of private and public life is his computer centre, a virtual reality. He beams his projections into different rooms of his studio, enhances photos by painting them over.
Like a dancer in the staccato of his digital camera he throws himself into his work to be completely absorbed by his art.

While climbing up the steep staircases of his huge studio, one becomes almost a piece of art oneself. One recognizes oneself in the pictures. Touching the paint spotted walls one feels immediately, this could be one of his pictures. It is the human being in colour, skin in colour, soul in colour.One tends to sit down and ask oneself whether this object is a chair. Is that a table? Am I really a visitor ?

Kurt von Suso

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At 4:03pm on 16th February 2010, aprill said…
i really love your work so much! the womans face, a single face, she seams so glorios and hopefull, she your wife?
At 1:44pm on 29th May 2009, Manuel Rodriguez Diaz said…
I liked your work, it´s very good indeed
best regards
At 8:13pm on 8th December 2008, Robin Portnoff said…
Thanks for the friendship!
And thanks for the hints on your paintings.

Take care,
RP
At 9:22am on 1st November 2008, Peter Barber said…
the large portraits are produced with spray cans. I haven't ever used air brush although I am tempted
At 2:40am on 10th September 2008, Diana sellers said…
Have a wonderful day!

blessings
Diana
At 9:27pm on 4th August 2008, yolanda botelho said…
thanks for thebeautiful work you put on my profile.....kiss from portugal

At 11:55am on 4th August 2008, yolanda botelho said…
great work full of sentiment
At 3:12pm on 31st July 2008, Bhagat said…
Beautiful gallery!
At 4:21pm on 17th June 2008, karen kruse said…
thanks for your comment, and for taking the time to look at things. I cannot write in german, sorry. I've just been through your web, your broken figures, with shatered and decomposing limits and extreme colors are not only haunting, but to me they seem to scream. I see movement ,agression, assaults, violence, stories of women-men, women again, everything gravitates around life and death and yourself, because you seem to be immersed in it impregnated of the same dirt or painting that make your nervous figures. At least I see you in many paintings, and the painting finally IS what it provokes. There are quite a few that have impressed me but "cold comfort" is painful. I can't just say I like your work, or it is great, because that isn't the reaction it produces in me, it perturbs me and makes me respect you.
At 8:42pm on 10th June 2008, Giorgio Tuscani said…
Healer is my favorite..they are all great but Healer speaks to me...thank you for sharing your exceptional work of art...
 
 

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