Manfred Schatz
Artist

Manfred Schatz was born in 1925 in what is now East Germany. He attended the School of Arts and Crafts in Stetten and the Academy of Pictoral Arts, Berlin-Charlottenburg. His extraordinary talent has led him to exhibitions in over a dozen major cities of the world including Hamburg, Munich, London, New York, Dallas and Las Vegas. In 1964 he won a Silver Medal for his painting, ELK ON THE MOVE, IN Florence, Italy, and a Gold Medal for FLEEING LYNX in Dusseldorf. In 1975 the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto held an international exhibition, ANIMALS IN ART. Out of 143 artists (both past and present) from twenty-five nations, he was judged the most significant artist of the exhibition.

Manfred Schatz will certainly go down in history as one of the leading painters of animals and hunting scenes of our time. The magic of his paintings lies in his ability to capture movement. His brush strokes are bold and set to canvas with a certainty that many artists never acquire. This enables him to portray wildlife as most of us see it-in quick, often shadowy glimpses rather than sharp, bright portraits.