Schooled at the prestigious Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig under the supervision of painter Sighard Gille (who is mostly known for his Song of Life, a monumental ceiling fresco of vibrant colors in the city's Gewandhaus Orchestra), Tobias Lehner (1974, Regensburg) first mastered the craft of traditional figurative painting before turning to abstraction. (grimmgallery.com)
His subjects hover between traditional figurative painting and portraiture; only about five percent of his production is true commissioned portraiture. (fineartconnoisseur.com)
Unlike traditional figurative paintings in which models are used as subjects, in his paintings Klein incorporated his models as an intrinsic part of the creative process. (christies.com)