Chris Berens

Quick Facts

Full Name	Chris Berens
Occupation	Painter
Date Of Birth	Jun 19, 1976(1976-06-19)
Age	48
Birthplace	Oss
Country	Netherlands
Horoscope	Gemini

Chris Berens Biography

Chris Berens is one of the most popular and richest Painter who was born on June 19, 1976 in Oss, Netherlands.

Chris Berens (born June 19, 1976) is a Dutch painter. While he takes inspiration from the quality of light in the paintings of Vermeer and Rembrandt, his themes lie more within the realms of surrealism and visionary art than traditional painting. Although his work is completely hand-painted, his paintings are often assumed to be digital photographic manipulation. He lives in Amsterdam with his wife Esther and their daughters Emma & Juno Leeuwenhart.

Although his 2009 exhibition, “The Only Living Boy In New York,” was inspired by the impending birth of his first child, his most frequently revisited theme is death. In paintings like “In Paradisum,” “Circle of Friends,” “On a Midnight Voyage” and “First Snow, Guide Me Home,” he had explored various facets of the experience of dying, as he believes that there is “a great deal of beauty present in the moment of death. After witnessing the pain and struggle of dying, you also experience the lightness of acceptance and letting go.” While he feels he is not yet capable of depicting what he envisions to its full potential, he says he strives to improve his skills rapidly, because he is driven to bring these visions into reality. “The reason I paint, is because for me, for now, this is the way to get closest to what I actually see. I suppose you could call it my soul, or the center of me, or my essence.”

Chris Berens Net Worth

Chris Berens is one of the richest Painter from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chris Berens 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Chris Berens was born in 1976 in Oss, Netherlands, near the historic town of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the birthplace of Hieronymous Bosch, a factor that would feature in his artistic development. When he was a boy, his father brought him to many exhibitions of the Dutch Golden Age painters, including Frans Hals, Rembrandt and Vermeer, and those images became infused into the internal world he began imagining as a child. He studied illustration at the AKV St. Joost in Den Bosch, graduating in 1999. While working as a freelance illustrator, Berens began to teach himself to paint in several dilapidated buildings in the rural area near his childhood home. Attempting to emulate the painting methods of the Old Masters and 19th-century academic artists like Ingres and Bouguereau, he learned by copying their work, and eventually came upon a technique which allowed him to achieve an otherworldly dreamlike impression of the qualities he admired in his predecessors. More recently, Berens relocated to Amsterdam, where he began exhibiting his work in 2004. After four sold-out shows at Amsterdam’s Jaski Gallery, Berens made the move to infiltrate the American art market in 2008, at Seattle’s well-known pop surrealism gallery, Roq la Rue. That sold-out show was his first exposure to American collectors, and the sudden appearance of an artist exhibiting his technical sophistication and evocative dreamlike motifs caused a sensation in pop surrealism circles. In 2009, he had his first museum retrospective, in which 13 of his paintings were exhibited at the Noordbrabants Museum in Den Bosch. In 2010, Berens was commissioned to create the cover for Blondie’s album Panic of Girls. He also supplied the artwork for German singer Xavier Naidoo’s 2009 album Alles kann besser werden, which features a painting called “The Big Blue.”

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Christian Ranked on the list of most popular Painter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Chris Berens celebrates birthday on June 19 of every year.