realist painter

Stephan Brunner was born in 1969 in Lyon (France). Stephan Brunner spent his childhood amid the smell of the cooked linen's oil and the casein's glue of his father's studio, observing the way to crush the colours and to stick the canvas. His father, Egmont Brunner, has had a passion for painting since he was 15 and is today at 75 years old still devoted to this art... realist painter . He needed several years to perfect an oil painting technique inherited from the Flemish and Dutch masters of the XVIIth century. His father as an adviser for new painting compositions appreciated Stephan. Discreet and attentive, he mainly observed than questioned his father.

Realist painter

At 16 Stephan painted his first still life, although it is his first painting, the years of working with his father has prepared well and he feels he already knows how to paint. He considers this experiment more like a game than a real event in his life?

A small event just 4 years later, exposes a passion which has fuelled Stephan’s work since . While studying law in the university of Lyon Stephan returns to his family home for his summer holiday. As has been the case for many years he prepares for his father an African still life the idea is to create a scene from a sorcerer's hut. He uses a funeral mask and several shells on a fabric background. But something is missing and suddenly he imagines the subject completed with beautiful beetles.