Desire: Three Caravan Drawings and a Poem
Three recent drawings of caravans and pack horses, accompanied by the poem Desire — a meditation on movement, longing, trade routes, and the imagined landscapes between the Caspian Sea and Isfahan.
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.
Paintings from the Caucasus Now on Saatchi Art
My Saatchi Art profile has been updated with a focused selection of paintings from different periods of my work. Many of them are rooted in Georgia and the Caucasus — in horses, mountain passes, borderlands, memory, conflict and the strange beauty of post-Soviet landscapes.
Otar Chkhartishvili at the Dry Bridge Art Market, Tbilisi, 1998
Rare archive photographs from Tbilisi in 1998: Georgian artist Otar Chkhartishvili (1938 - 2006) and friends at the Dry Bridge art market — a small document of Georgia’s post-Soviet art world, full of improvisation, friendship and belief.
Studio, Arutin-Saiatnova Street 17, Tbilisi, 2012
A 2012 self-portrait in my studio in Old Tbilisi — a room of work, memory, and artistic life.
Germania (1995): Love, Promise and Reckoning in 1990s Germany
“Germania” (1995) is both a personal and social painting by Heiner Buhr about love, promise, consumerism and the hopes of reunited Germany in the 1990s.
Germania (1995): Liebe, Verheißung und Abrechnung in den 1990er Jahren
„Germania“ (1995) verbindet eine persönliche Liebesgeschichte mit einer Allegorie auf das wiedervereinigte Deutschland der 1990er Jahre.
Kontrabanda
„Kontrabanda“ ist ein Gemälde über Handel, Erinnerung und Zeit im Kaukasus – entstanden aus einer Begegnung im Schnee im Jahr 1997 und entwickelt über 29 Jahre hinweg.
კონტრაბანდა
ჩვენ მას თოვლში შევხვდით — სადღაც საქართველოსა და ინგუშეთს შორის. 1990-იანი წლების შუა პერიოდში, ომებისა და სამოქალაქო არეულობის შემდეგ, კავკასიის ბევრ მაღალმთიან სოფელში ხალხი თითქმის მხოლოდ იმით ცხოვრობდა, რისიც თავად წარმოება შეეძლო: ძროხები, ცხვრები, ყველი, კარაქი, ბალახები, შინაური არაყი, თამბაქო.…
Kontrabanda
In the mid-1990s Caucasus, trade meant survival. Years later, one encounter became a painting about memory, exchange, and human resilience.