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Rudolf is a German/Belgian artist living in London.

From a young age Rudolf had a great passion for the arts and took art and design classes. Despite this he was side tracked into academia finishing with a BA in Philosophy and an MBA. He then went on to have a successful corporate career. His passion for the arts remained consistent throughout his working life.

In 2012 Rudolf returned to London and was greatly inspired by this vibrant city. He enrolled into art classes and reconnected with his passion, spending up to 30 hours a week painting whilst still holding down a demanding day job. He finally transitioned to become a full time professional artist.

In 2015-16 Rudolf studied classical fine art at the London Fine Art Studio.

His art typically bridges between classical painting and modern pop art. Rudolf is a neo narrative figurative painter. He works in “series”, each series being based on a dominant idea. Rudolf develops 20-30 sketches per series, out of which he creates paintings.

Rudolf’s work is influenced by his early studies of Philosophy. He specialized in Existentialism from Heidegger and Sartre; “Finding the meaning of my life and the role I play in the bigger picture within civilization and my purpose of existence are questions which are close to my heart”. Rudolf prefers to express his philosophical thoughts and understandings through his art instead of words, as he believes that art is a more powerful and expressive tool to interact with people in this modern day society.

Rudolf has a profoundly curious mind, sharply observing and studying the dynamics of society. He plays with blurring of lines between humans and mannequins to convey the ease at which we can interchangeably go from being subjects to objects driven by material desires and expectations fuelled by mass consumerism. He is also fascinated by the transition between machine and human, which will greatly transform our society as next generation mobile networks will facilitate robotics. When does a machine start and a human end (question of “trans-humanity”)? Rudolf likes to make historical references as he believes that the younger generations must be made aware of historical events to learn from the mistakes of the past.

Rudolf pushes watercolours/gouache to their extremes, so they come close to having the textures of acrylic to underline the fine line between reality and its projection. He loves vibrant colours as they symbolize ‘joie de vivre’. He uses white and black paper – the latter being particularly challenging as black absorbs most hues.

Rudolf is now exhibiting at Walton Fine Arts Gallery in London-Chelsea on 152-154 Walton Street. He also was the featured artist for the PURE London exposition in Olympia, February 2016. His Cat Walk painting was enlarged to 10x13 meters to become the centre piece of the exhibition.

‘There is more than one Humm in me and my art frees some of them’.

‘I want my art to engage, this is why I prefer to paint people and embrace their oddities’.

‘My artwork always has as message, as such my process is cerebral. I don’t control its creation, it just happens as I sketch and let go with colour’.

- Rudolf Humm

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