About the Artist Jonas Hafner

Swans, birds, fabulous creatures: in his finely worked etchings Jonas Hafner (b. 1940 in Augsburg) unfolds a poetic imagery drawn from mythology, literature and nature, dreamlike and playful in character. He is known above all for his printmaking. Hafner studied under Dieter Roth and Joseph Beuys and taught as a professor in Augsburg and, from 1989, at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg. Many of his works appeared in the renowned editions of Griffelkunst Hamburg and so found a wide audience. His signed original etchings make an appealing and affordable entry point into contemporary printmaking.