Michael Moebius

MICHAEL MOEBIUS (1968-) is best known for his photorealistic portrait paintings of icons like Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and David Bowie blowing chewing gum bubbles.

Moebius grew up in the communist and strictly controlled East Germany, more specifically in the town of Pirna. Most of the exciting and fine the Western world tempted with was strictly forbidden, and Moebius kept fond of the few forbidden items he had managed to acquire, such as magazines, toys and soda cans. He absorbed the colors, shapes, odors of the West. When he grew up, he had a passion for drawing comics, but it was not until he came across a book of pinup drawings by Alberto Vargas in the mid 1990s he realized that it was figurative artist he would be. Thus he replaced the safe engineering career with studies in painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. In 1998, he traveled to the United States and experienced a major breakthrough.

Moebius’s inspiration comes from renaissance and baroque masters, especially Titian and Caravaggio, to pop music master Andy Warhol. His work has displayed the front page of Playboy, GQ, Vouge and Robb Report, and his collectors include, among others, Rihanna, Gene Simmons, Paris Hilton and now deceased Hugh Hefner.

(source: https://www.fineart.no/kunstner/michael-moebius)