Stefan Haenni

Stefan Haenni (* August 4, 1958 in Thun ) is a Swiss painter and writer.

Life

Haenni attended the School of Design in Bern and studied at the University of Bern and the Université de Fribourg art history, psychology and pedagogy. His artistic output peaked in the 1980s with the portraiture first climax. Thus arose, inter alia, Portraits of the writer Naguib Mahfouz, Christoph Geiser and Walter Vogt, historian Edgar Bonjour, the artist Meret Oppenheim, the Bernese rock band Zürich West.

The central theme of modern Orientalism was Haenni after a trip to Egypt in 1990, it subsequently resulted in extensive groups like the images to West-Eastern Divan by Goethe, the series of Monde Arabe and Lawrence of Arabia -. , The new images to old film. Stefan Haenni now lives in Thun.

Appreciation

As awake traveler Stefan Haenni takes in the Arab countries on impressions, processes them in different media and puts them together to own new works. It is an intense preoccupation with motifs, colors, people, situations and moods of several Oriental countries, he registered and implement them into its own typical images. With them he makes us alert to the rich imagery and culture of the East, some of which - also manages to show - also by Western globalization trends are disappearing. Haennis pictures live from the affection to the world of the Orient, without denying their roots in Western art and are as important messengers of international understanding, as it has achieved no other Swiss artists in this perseverance and simultaneous light-heartedness.

Artistic work

By Stefan Haenni are, inter alia, in the collection of the Kunstmuseum Thun, the art collection Steffi Castle, the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern, the State Archives of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, the Bern Inselspital, UBS, Berner Kantonalbank and in numerous private collections.

Exhibitions (selection)

Detective novels

• Brahmsrösi. Fellers second case. Gmeiner, measuring Kirch 2010, ISBN 978-3-8392-1036-9.