Andrea
Berthel

ANDREA BERTHEL

Artist’s Bio

Andrea Berthel is the creator of the Canned Koi Cosmology, showing the world in a fish can. Bright PopArt colors and the humorous fish portrayals hide political, philosophical, social or environmental themes. She paints hyper-realistically in oil, sometimes with other media added, like metal leaf, paper, acrylics or ink.

Andrea Berthel is self taught. She learned by copying the great Renaissance and baroque painters like Caravaggio, Tiepolo, Veronese and Jan Davidz de Heem. You can see their influence in her use of light and shadow, how she defines volume and in her hyperrealistic style.

She was born 06.01.1958 in Santiago/Chile, has lived in South Africa, France, Switzerland, the Hague and various German towns and currently resides in Baden-Baden/Germany. Having experienced various places and their societies around the globe has widened her view upon the world and taught her to find her own individual way to express herself.