BERND HAUSSMANN divides his time between his studio north of Boston and Western Maine where he also works on a 250 acre nature project. Haussmann exhibits nationally and has had recent exhibitions in Boston, MA; Scottsdale, AZ; Fort Worth, TX; and Santa Fe, NM. His works are in a number of museum collections including the Danforth Museum of Art; Lyman Allyn Museum of Art; Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ; Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX; and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, among others.

This important painter offers a deep investigation into the issues primary to the ongoing dialogue about painting in Provincetown. Haussmann's subjects range from an abstracted interpretation of nature to language and dreams to architecture to a total investment in the possibilities inherent in a single color. His masterful executions are couple trust in the unexpected and an investment in the intelligence of the viewer that is not often approached free from the burden of context. Haussmann extracts singular elements illuminated by bold colors and introduces a discussion of gesture, surface and the subconscious that, though contemporary in nature, can be traced directly back to the same philosophy of painting that defined Provincetown's schools from Hensche to Hofmann to Stout through the moment of abstraction's passionate public introduction at Forum 49. For him, rendering reality has been replaced with a trust that the viewer is the element that completes his work. With Haussmann's art we are alive and involved.