Christian Dittenhoffer
About Christian Dittenhoffer
Christian Dittenhoffer is a landscape artist from Elmira, Ontario and has lived in the Waterloo Region for most of his life. Since a very young age he has been interested in art and nature. In the late 90s he took some fine arts courses at the University of Guelph. Since then, he decided to follow his passion for painting landscapes. He enjoys exploring natural wilderness or rural locations looking for beautiful and inspiring scenery to paint. Rocky shores, dense forests, rippling water and flashy sunset skies are common subject matter for his works. Most of his paintings have been based on scenes in Ontario, but he has also painted locations in Alberta, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Germany, Switzerland, Colombia and the Dominican Republic. He uses acrylic paint because of its vibrant colours and quick drying properties which allow for a soft-looking dry-brush technique. Paintings are done either in his studio, en plein air or on location from his car. Christian has exhibited and sold paintings at various shows including the Elora Plein Air Festival, Art on the Street (Guelph) and the Kissing Bridge Art Show (St. Jacobs). One of his landscape paintings was selected by the Elmira BIA to decorate a large flower box at the main intersection in the town of Elmira.