Artist Bio

(1977-2008)

Christian Nesvadba was born in 1977 in Vienna, Austria, into a family with an artistic heritage for several generations. Nesvadba was born to paint. His eye for color, movement and mood are exquisite, and his riotous Impressionist flowers are only beginning to receive the attention they merit.

Soon after starting in regular school, his talent for drawing was recognized by his professors and he changed to a school specializing in Drawing and Engineering. That, however, was too technical for the young man and he decided to devote himself to a more artistic career.

His father, Gerhard Nesvadba, the well known and highly successful landscape artist, was his first tutor. Christian Nesvadba’s paintings were done on his father’s easel, but while in drawing he could learn a great deal from his father, in terms of his color-sense, he very quickly developed his own style - bold, fresh and rather vibrant.

Christian Nesvadba travels extensively, photographing flowers in every light, every season, and every arrangement. He doesn't copy from his photos, but uses them to springboard into his own brilliantly expressionist world, where function fuses with form and color is everything. Nesvadba's paintings nearly explode with reds and startling yellows, casually arranged against beds of cooler greens. These are not coolly precise botanicals, but bold, vibrant statements of life that will continue to be extremely collectable.

His first major award came at age 20 when he won the very prestigious Salzburger Kutlturfonds - Prize in 1997. In 1998 he had two One-Man shows, the first in Salzburg and the second in Linz. He enjoyed a One-Man-Exhibition at the renowned Galerie Otto in Vienna in 1999 and made his US debut at the New York in 2000.

Christian Nesvadba died on October 7, 2008 as a result of being involved in a fatal car accident.