detail - the girl who turned on her own canvas - oil painting
Egmont Hartwig’s work encompasses still life, portraiture, and landscape, realised through contemporary vanitas oil paintings that bring classical figuration into dialogue with traces of modern life. His paintings include still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, often depicting people and interiors in a restrained, baroque-inspired use of light. Unified by this distinctive lighting and the recurring presence of worn, damaged walls, his oil paintings propose a nuanced reflection on transience, memory, and quiet tension. Hartwig’s contemporary paintings extend across objects, figures, and environments, positioning his work within a dialogue between classical painting traditions and contemporary art.