Marianne Eichenbaum:

 I grew up in Ansbach, a traditional Bavarian town in Germany. It was there I discovered a world of creative possibilities. As a young girl, I spent hours watching my father's hands intermingle common kitchen ingredients - flour, butter, sugar - sifting, stirring, and molding, as if by magic, until delightful artistic pastries and cakes arrived. He was well known in our village for his artfully delicious bakery treats. As I matured, I also grew inspired to create, choosing to express my artistic side a little differently. Throughout my life, I was fascinated with the Old Masters, Renoir, Matisse and Van Gough. When abstract reached the art world, I admired the color combinations and the unrestrained expression as it represented freedom. I have never been good at boundaries; I am an explorer at heart. I came to the United States at twenty-one on my own and it's that same adventurous spirit that drives me to create in a variety of genres -realistic, abstract, impressionist - even photography. I also enjoy several mediums: watercolor, pastel, acrylic, oil - each offers a different experience of fluidity, surprise, depth of color, control (or lack of it). Every stroke creates a different outcome. I enjoy working with a variety of tools as well; laying the colors on the canvas and watching the painting come alive. As each image begins to appear, I begin pushing, blending, shaping, much like my father did with his pastries. And when it's complete before me, I see something emotional and meaningful. There may be joy, sadness, anger, calm - but there is always meaning in all of it. And that's what I want to share. I take my inspiration from the world around me. In some of my work, I like to push the limits by combining realism with abstract, contemporary with impressionism. Although painting landscapes brings me much joy, the love to express my emotions through colors in abstract is still my favorite painting style. I hope you will enjoy my paintings as much as I have enjoyed creating them.

 

Her artwork on the front cover of the Italian Art Publication ​"Effetto Arte"	Her works are held in private collections in Europe and the United States and shown in a variety of exhibits in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, and Southern California, Carousel du Louvre, Paris, Cantania, Italy, Wunder Kammer, Palermo, Italy.
Today Marianne Eichenbaum lives in Gilroy, California.  She is an award winning, internationally recognized Artist.
She is one artist whose work will always offer one beautiful surprise after another. No matter the mode, her brushstrokes create dynamic, tight compositions that draw viewers’ eyes and command the attention with their rich interplay of gentle and rough textures, bright and dark tones
German-born, California-based artist Marianne Eichenbaum paints bold, colorful works straddling the boundary between abstraction and figuration, often melding floral imagery with mysterious, amorphous shapes. The resulting compositions, rendered in rich hues of oil and acrylic, feature impressively vivid textures and folds. These close-up images alternately evoke traditional still lifes and Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings of flowers, although Eichenbaum's imagery and palette remain fiercely original. Her canvases are dominated by rich reds and yellows that glow from the careful buildup of layered pigments. As a testament to the strong influence that artists from the Old Masters to Modernist abstract painters have exerted on her development, Eichenbaum varies her tools and style of application dramatically. Certain works are grooved and ridged with thick areas of paint, while others appear as smooth as the flower petals they seem to portray. No matter the mode, her brushstrokes create dynamic, tight compositions that draw viewers' eyes and command the attention with their rich interplay of gentle and rough textures, bright and dark tones.
Recipient of the following Awards: Sandro Botticelli Prize (Award) ................................................... March 1, 2015 Florence, Italy Roma Imperiale International Prize (Award) .................................. May 19, 2015 Rome, Italy Prima della Critica Award ............................................................July 26, 2015 Art Taormina - International Award "Mazzullo"................................ July 10th - 19, 2015 Leone Dei Dogi - July 25, 2015......................................................Venice, Italy Marco Polo International Prize ......................................................Art Ambassador - September 25, 2015 1st International Noto Award – Unesco Heritage on December 4th 2015 at Museum Convitto Ragusa - Noto - Sicily Leonardo Da Vinci International Award --- January 29, 2016, awarded at the Borghese Palace in Florence, italy PUBLICATIONS: EFFETTO ARTE Magazine front cover - several issues INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ARTIST ART UNLIMITED Xanadu Gallery, Scottsdale Arizona