Christian Jereczec -Artist Biography

Christian Jereczek (1935-2003) was born on November 7, 1935 in Berlin, Germany. His quest as an artist actually began when he became a stone-mason to try and learn all the possibilities that stone would offer for sculptures. His next step was to study at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts under such professors as Drake, Hein Werner, and Theo Balden. During this time Jereczek turned more and more toward oil paintings and began to hone this craft. Under the tutelage of the well-known Frankfurt artists Werner Seipel and Barum-Sekret he was able to develop his tremendous natural gift into wonderful paintings in only two years. He followed these studies up with various other study trips to Paris, Italy, and Spain.

Jereczek says that both painting and sculpture are equally important to his artistic expression. He said that he felt as though he needed both mediums to fully express all of his ideas; yet his paintings still make up the majority of his artistic work. Jereczek based his architectural and landscape paintings on sketches that he had drawn during all of his travels through-out Europe. These sketches not only provided him with an enormous variety of subjects but also a memory book of his travels throughout Europe. Jereczek also did figural works, paintings or sculptures of dancers, portraits, and animal paintings which have contributed to his worldwide reputation. Jereczek was also a master at capturing the beautiful scenes of elegant cafes and flower markets in the most elegant of play lands of the rich and famous in Paris, Monaco, and places of one’s imagination as well.  He lent his impressionistic style to many motifs such as: figurative pieces, landscapes, Italian and Spanish scenes, the French coast and harbors, florals, portraiture, ballrooms and street scenes.  Jereczek’s ballroom scenes take you back to another time of elegance, a time when ballroom dancing was what an occasion entailed.  Jerezcek’s ballroom scenes are located in beautiful grand opera houses with titanic staircases, flowing down through the neoclassical columns to dancers by the grand pianos.