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Victor Hohne, a Seattle born artist, has been painting for over 30 years. Along with his family, Victor Hohne located to the Los Angeles area at the age of twelve, where his innate talent flourished among a new and exiting art community. While attending Beverly Hills High School, well noted for its music and arts program, Hohne fostered the skills he would later use in his abstractions.

Hohne's extensive travels throughout Europe supplemented his creative education. World-renowned museums provided a barrage of etchings, paintings, colors, and techniques that awed a young and impressionable artist. Along with Europe's official institutes for the arts, the surrounding culture and architecture served as visual tutorials, infusing Hohne with knowledge and inspiration. The afternoon light in arched doorways, stately columns filled with light and shadow, water cascading down ancient fountains, all filled Hohne with an inspiration to paint such beauty.

Even in the raw nature of the African desert, Hohne started to see abstraction. There he had the advantage of observing animals in their natural habitat. A regal lion asleep in the tall grass, the inborn chiaro oscuro of a pack of zebras congregating at watering holes on the planes, all could be seen in terms of abstraction; of shapes, textures, and colors.

Today, Victor Hohne creates abstract paintings, pulling from his various influences. He loves to experiment with texture and graphics. He doesn't shy away from new images, but relishes in always trying something different. His paintings thus reflect his attitude toward art; that of vigor, excitement, and freshness.