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Daniel's Biography
Born 1965 in Kewaskum, Wisconsin, Dan’s interest in art emerged as a teenager. Studies at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, Illinois and his voracious appetite for museums and the modern masters such as John Singer Sargent, Alphonse Mucha, Nicolai Fechin, Joaquin Sorolla, Carl von Marr as well as a host of other French and American impressionists have inspired him. Dan has a particular interest and appreciation for sumptuous modern Russian art.
Dan’s paintings embrace a range of subjects, most prominently the female figure in either a pastoral setting or an intimate interior. He is at his best with subjects from everyday life, genre subjects, sacred-idyllic landscapes or figures in quiet repose, meditation or contemplative isolation. His mastery of the female figure, the clothed figure especially, is brilliant. He has drawn inspiration from the very old tradition of romanticism and symbolism with their lavish surfaces, color, and lighting. All of this is in harmony with his expressionistic brushstroke, application, and modeling of light and shade.
A projection of tranquility, repose, and rich introspection result from Dan’s knowledge of the content of his art. In Gerhartz’s pictures the ordinary or commonplace is transformed into a higher reality and consequently a sense of greater importance.
About his work Dan has said, “My desire as an artist is that the images I paint would point to the Creator, and not to me, the conveyor. J.S. Bach said it well as he signed his work, ‘Soli Deo Gloria,’ To God alone be the glory.”