Hauben, Daniel – PETER JUNG FINE ART

Daniel Hauben (1956-) Contemporary,

A view of a Bronx community garden

Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 30” x 44”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $8500

Biography/Statement

Born and raised in the Bronx, Daniel Hauben is acclaimed as the borough’s most versatile and prolific painter. Working in both oil paint and chalk pastel, he has spent 35 years capturing the life of the Bronx on canvas or paper, setting up his easel en plein air on street corners and overpasses, under elevated subway trains or in playgrounds. “I’m a landscape painter,” he says. “It just so happens that the landscape I paint is encrusted with the Bronx.”

His work captures the play of light and shadow in the urban environment: the patterns cast on the street by the elevated train trestles, the windows of apartment buildings gilded at sunset, the sharp white heat of a sidewalk in high summer, or the deeply shadowed canyons between tall buildings on late autumn afternoons.

From the warm glow of an autumnal Virginia dusk captured in delicate pastel, to the bright afternoon light glancing off tall city buildings, to the gritty layers of textured oil paint carved out to portray shadowed, crumbling urban structures, Hauben is able to capture and express light as a life force. His art brings home to us what it means to live in this world in both a natural – and an urban environment – and it reminds us that there is beauty and fragility in both.

An avid traveler, Hauben has journeyed far afield, carrying his painting supplies and easel with him. “There is no better way to learn about a new place than to set up your easel on a corner and paint life as it revolves around you,” he says. Hauben has painted in Spain, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, France, Southern India and Costa Rica, as well as New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Virginia and California.

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