Jo
Niklaus

painter

born Münsterberg / Schlesien, 1941

1957 - 1962 Painting and drawing lessons with H. Ulrich /Lauf/P.

1962 - 1965 Evening classes in nude and study head with Georg Weidenbacher.

from 1975 copying in front of originals in various museums.


Accustomed to precise work through copying and the joy of creating something unusual, the turn to trompe-l'oeil was preordained.


2009 included in the Lexikon der PHANTASTISCHEN KÜNSTER (prof. Gerhard Habarta)


since 2011 permanently represented in the PHANTASTENMUSEUM- WIEN with the painting Mythos Zeit (Myth of Time)


2017 included in the encyclopaedia of PHANTASTIC ARTISTS (Prof. Gerhard Habarta)

Exhibitions and participations at home and abroad, e.g. :


2007 Old Town Museum - Fembo House, Nuremberg

Palais Palffy, Vienna

2013 Trierenber Art, Traun, Austria

2013 Municipal Gallery Schwabach E

2016 Kunsthaus-Reitbahn, Ansbach

2017 City Theatre Fürth

2017 Kulturscheune / Friends of the Old Town, Nuremberg

2021 Albrecht Dürer House Nuremberg Eerg, Gallery Jacobsa

Style:

Period: 21st c., 20th c.