Hjördis Baacke

Hjördis Baacke paints forests. Realistically, with a special focus on light, which sometimes gives her canvases an impressive effect. Every forest has its own character, its own personality, and Baacke's forest paintings are like portraits.

Since the corona-years, at the latest, the forest has once again become a place of refuge and longing. The new uncertainty and increasing strangeness in cities are also contributing to this: interest in this unique biotope is booming.

The human desire to shape the world urgently needs to be reconciled with the natural systems that have balanced themselves over millions of years and brought us into being. Not in the sense of escapism, but rather a return to learning and observing. Forest paintings, which were considered obsolete for over a century, are now highly topical again.

Hjördis Baacke (born in Leipzig in 1980) studied painting at the HGB under Arno Rink and Neo Rauch. She wrote her thesis in 2007 in the field of philosophy on the topic
“The Forest as a Promise” under Christoph Türcke. The artist has received various art prizes and awards. Hjördis Baacke lives in Leipzig and has a son.