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Philipp Rudolf Humm was born in Saarbruecken, Germany in 1959. The Belgian-German painter and sculptor made his home in London. He has 3 grown up children.Humm was a painter from a young age, yet after not being selected by the Akademie fuer Bildende Kuenste in Berlin, pursued a successful business career as entrepreneur and executive. Since 2015, Humm has become a full-time artist. He studied life painting at the London Fine Art Studios and sculpture at the Fine Art Academy in Florence. Humm has also a BA in Philosophy and Business and a MBA. As a contemporary narrative fgurative artist, his art bridges the divide between classical painting and modern art, merging classical painting techniques with Pop elements, to create a new kind of Expressionism. Humm sees himself as a witty chronicler of our society.‘Humm’s paintings succeed, very often, because they offer the viewer an echo chamber, one that resounds with cultural references, ancient and modern.’ Edward Lucie-Smith, art critic