Rainer Fetting Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Rainer Fetting
A Berlin Energy: The Life and Art of Rainer Fetting Rainer Fetting, born in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, in 1949, is a pivotal figure in the resurgence of figurative painting during the late 20th century. His journey began not within the traditional confines of art school, but with a practical apprenticeship as a carpenter and stage designer at the Landesbühne Niedersachsen. This early exposure to craft and theatricality instilled in him a
foundational understanding of form, space, and narrative – elements that would later become hallmarks of his artistic expression. Moving to Berlin in the early 1970s, Fetting enrolled at the Hochschule der Künste (Academy of Fine Arts), studying under Professor Hans Jaenisch. However, it was outside the academy walls, within the burgeoning counter-culture scene of West Berlin, that his true artistic identity began to take shape. The ‘…
