Max Piar, born in Berlin in 1969, discovered his passion for art history, painting, and graphic art at a very early age.
At the age of 14, Max Piar took a preparatory exam at an art school. There, in a Chemnitz school support group for gifted artists, he met painters and graphic artists such as Steffen Volmer and the calligrapher Heinz Schumann. He studied portrait and nude painting, human anatomy, perspective composition, calligraphy, and, above all, the painting techniques of the old masters.
His paintings were initially created on paper, later on large-format handmade laid paper and large-format wooden panels, similar to the panel painting practiced by Gothic and Renaissance painters in the 13th to 16th centuries.
It was only with his artistic work on panel painting that Max Piar found the medium to express his ideas and thoughts in the depth of color glazes and three-dimensional engravings, as he envisioned them. A play with line, the calligraphic line, the sweep, and the movement, combined with fine graphic engravings—the likes of which can only be found in copperplate engravings and etchings—imparts plasticity, playful detail, and spatially defined perspective. Moving away from reality, his paintings became surrealist, abstract expressionist, and biomorphic, creating new forms and mysterious figures with calligraphic glazes, resembling metamorphoses.
