Herbst Martin C. (b. 1965, Salzburg, Austria). Education: 1989, Magister Artium, Class of Painting, Hochschule Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria. Herbst pushes the limits of traditional painting. Most of his delicately executed paintings expand to the third dimension without denying their two-dimensional origin. His artistic career has been shaped by his lifelong interest in the human face and figure and by the question how to transform a portrait of a certain individual into a transpersonal and touching artwork. He understands (portrait) painting as a search for universal validity that is somehow larger than life.
