© Frank Bauer
In spirit, Bauer's approach is much closer to Hopper's melancholic scenarios than to those of the photorealists.
Frank Bauer is a German painter. From 1985 to 1993, Bauer studied at Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and in 1992 he was master student under Prof. Gerhard Richter.
Frank Bauer's oeuvre is created and developed in close connection with the artist's keen interest in photography, which is reflected in more than half of his book inventory.
Bauer's use of an episcopist to transfer images to canvas places him in an important lineage: two of his favourite painters, Vermeer and Caravaggio, are believed to have used the camera obscura for their purposes; such virtuoso painters as Canaletto and Sir Joshua Reynolds did the same.
In spirit, Bauer's approach is much closer to Hopper's melancholic scenarios than to those of the photorealists.