John Ebersberger

Expressing the full spectrum of nature’s beauty, John Ebersberger’s paintings reflect the twin strains of Impressionism and Classical Realism. After earning a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1977, he began studying under Cedric Egeli, the nationally known portrait painter. It was Egeli who introduced John to Henry Hensche, the master impressionist who had served as Charles Hawthorne’s teaching assistant in the 1920s in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Struck by the intensity of light Hensche was able to achieve in his canvases John studied every summer with him until his death in 1992.

John’s work and articles have appeared in The Artist’s Magazine, American Artist, American Art
Collector, and Workshop Magazine. Books containing John’s work include Capturing Radiant Color in Oils by Susan Sarback, and Painting the Impressionist Watercolor by Lee Boynton.

My painting, "Grace" (painted on the Provincetown beach), was painted with a palette knife, using broad color shapes to model the forms and features of the head and face.   Paintings are often illustrational in their use of linear detail, with the focus on surface details.  A true "painter's painter" understands that a more profound expression is concerned with the poetic aspects of beauty - rhythmic relationships of form, the play of light and color, and the illusion of space and dimension.   The sentimental narrative of a painting takes second place to these more vital, visual expression of beauty.  John Ebersberger