Artist David Hettinger (David Hettinger)

David Hettinger was born in 1946 in Aurora, Illinois. David began drawing at the age of 8 years. The theme was cowboys from the movies. When he was 13 years old, Mike Spencer, a local artist and owner of a barbershop and gave the kid oil paint. Art education David Hettinger began in the American Academy of art in Chicago in the workshop of Josef van den Broek, who studied with the students of classical realism and the techniques of the Flemish, Dutch and Spanish masters. After four years of training in Academy Hettinger moved to new-Йорк, where he continued his studies with David Leffel and Richard Schmid. Since the beginning of his independent professional career, he organized 21 solo exhibition in galleries across the country. Hettinger a member of the Union of artists of America. His work has been published in the American art magazine in 1993, 2003 and 2004.