Jan Rauchwerger was born in 1942 in Turkmenistan, acquired his art education at the Academies of Art in Kiev and Moscow, and studied under the Russian painter Vladimir Weisberg. His work is rooted in realism, but after true observation, reveals a modern and contemporary approach to the form and sensuality of the foundations of the medium, whether oil, water, pastel or pencil. 

His main starting point has always been the traditional painting of a model in a studio, although his work is grounded in the history of art, from the Fayum mummy portraits in Egypt through the Renaissance and the Spanish Golden Age, to the artistic giants of modernism. 

Rauchwerger’s paintings allow the viewer to bridge between the extremely private and intimate encounter between an artist and a model and any collective secret human encounter.