About The Artist

Philipp Rudolf Humm (b. 1959, Saarbruecken, Germany) is a Belgian/German painter and sculptor, based in London. Humm was a painter from young age on, yet after not being selected by the Akademie fuer Bildende Kuenste in Berlin, pursued a successful business career as entrepreneur and executive. Since 2015, Humm has become a full-time artist. He studied life painting at the London Fine Art Studios and sculpture at the Fine Art Academy in Florence. Humm has also a BA in Philosophy and a MBA. As contemporary narrative figurative artist, his art bridges the divide between classical painting and modern art, merging classical painting techniques with Pop elements, to create a new style which the acclaimed art critique and historian Edward Lucie Smith labelled “Pop Expressionism”. Humm sees himself as a witty chronicler of our society. ‘Humm’s paintings succeed, very often, because they offer the viewer an echo chamber, one that resounds with cultural references, ancient and modern.’ – Edward Lucie-Smith Exhibitions 2017 Gallery Sans Titre – Potsdam/Germany Walton Fine Arts Gallery – London Solo- Rolls Royce – London Solo - CNB Gallery – London Solo - Saatchi Gallery with Wallpaper/Rossana- London 2016 Solo - Riflemaker Gallery - London Werkhallen Gallery – Remagen/Germany Walton Fine Arts Gallery – London Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize – London Broadway Art Festival – Little Buckland - UK Best International Creatives 2016 – Art Quench Gallery.com - USA Exclusive artist - PURE London (Olympia) – London Book 2017 Pop Expressionism- Works on Paper from Philipp Rudolf Humm by Edward Lucie-Smith Press Luxury London – Feb 2017 The Sloaney - Feb 2017 The Standard – Feb 2017 The Wallstreet Journal International - Art - Jan 2017 Kensington/Chelsea/Notting Hill/Holland Park Magazine – Jan 2017 The New York Times – Culture – Dec 2016 Handelsblatt - Dec 2016 FAD – Nov 2016 The Capitalist – Nov 2016 The Times – Nov 2016 Luxury London – Nov 2016 The Wall Street Journal (front page) – Apr 2016 PURE – “What’s new” magazine – Feb 2016