The Caravan, oil painting by Hans Heiner Buhr showing a rider with packhorses and livestock guardian dogs in a Caucasus landscape. Detail of the artwork.
The Caravan, 2016, oil on canvas, 120 × 49 cm. Two connected canvases, painted in Tbilisi by Hans Heiner Buhr. Detail

The Caravan — now on Saatchi Art

The Caravan is a 2016 oil painting by Hans Heiner Buhr, painted in Tbilisi on two joined canvases. The work shows a rider with pack horses and herd protection dogs — one of the artist’s recurring Caucasus motifs.

I have added a new painting to my updated Saatchi Art profile: The Caravan.

The painting was made in Tbilisi in 2016 and is painted in oil on canvas. It measures 120 × 49 cm and consists of two firmly connected canvases, each measuring 60 × 49 cm. The work is framed in a black English frame.

The Caravan shows one of my recurring motifs: a rider accompanied by packhorses and livestock guardian dogs, moving through an open and uncertain landscape. This constellation has appeared in my work many times over the years. It belongs to my wider visual language of the Caucasus — a world of movement, borderlands, mountain roads, memory, and survival.

The Caravan, oil painting by Hans Heiner Buhr showing a rider with packhorses and livestock guardian dogs in a Caucasus landscape.
The Caravan, 2016, oil on canvas, 120 × 49 cm. Two connected canvases, painted in Tbilisi by Hans Heiner Buhr.

I do not see these figures as folklore. For me, the rider, the horses, and the dogs are carriers of something older and more existential. They suggest departure, protection, trade, danger, exile, and the long road between one place and another.

In the Caucasus, a caravan is never only transport. It is also a story in motion.

The painting is now listed on Saatchi Art as part of a small selection of my Caucasus-related works.

You can view the painting here:
https://www.saatchiart.com/hansheinerbuhr

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