Manfred Heine-Baux Biography

Manfred Heine-Baux lived and worked in Germany, South Africa, France, and the United States, and established his studio in Canada where in 1984 he settled with his family. He has travelled and painted throughout France, Italy, Portugal, East Africa, Hawaii, the Caribbean, South America, Thailand, Tahiti, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Nepal, the USA, and Canada. The impressions left with him by these travels have had a tremendous impact on his work, as have his years of living in both his beloved Provence and in North America.

With his unique bold expressionistic style, he creates compositions built on the essential. The vibrant contrast of colours tends to eliminate the details and simplify the shapes. Swirling brush strokes compete with precise and delicate touches creating a rhythm that animates the painting. In Heine-Baux's work, we find both power and dynamics.

European and American art critics have described his art as a visual experience that becomes a "harmonized fireworks display." The atmosphere of his exotic markets is as convincing and colourfully depicted as the atmosphere in his brilliant French landscapes or the radiance of the personalities in his portraits.

The key element, evident in Manfred's work, is his ability to communicate his enthusiasm for life and beauty, through his choice of colours.

His work can be found in private, public, and corporate collections in Canada, Europe, the USA, and Japan.