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Visionary Art-news and infos: edited and updated by Franz Miklis

Gallery of many of my pictures at Pege
Gallery at Galerie der Phantastik (click to "Miklis, Franz H." at / bitte Künstler auswählen /)
Gallery at epilogue.net with interesting comments
Large gallery at Fantasyart.org
News

I was nominated for the Griffin Scroll Award by the Wiener Spieleakademie in 2006.

I visited the Worldcon in Glasgow 2005 where I met Geaorge R. R. Martin. Photos you can find in the gallery at The Whole Austrian Fandom.

I was Artist Guest of Honor at the PalatineCon 2004 in Germany, where I showed my work, held a slideshow and was present at panels during the convention.
Leigh Kennedy and Christopher Priest visiting me at my artshow at the PalatineCon. They are really charming people.
At a panel about my SF and Fantasy paintings we had great fun. At the back you can catch a glimpse of world famous Waldemar Kumming. I was interviewed by Wolfgang Glass and Usch Kiausch translated for the English guests.

Portfolio for Indian Magazine "Livepostive Plus"

A portfolio of my art was published in this magazine with the title "Visions of Tomorrow - the future of humanity"

Coverart for German Magazine "Alien Contact"

Artwork: "Master of the Negasphere".

Alien Contact surely is the most important and best
Magazine of Germany, and I`m quite happy that its editors, Hardy Kettlitz and Gerd Frey, are big fans of my art.

"20 years SF art of Franz H. Miklis”

This is the title of this years calender, produced by Europes most important SF Club, the Science Fiction Club Germany.

The club was founded in the fifties and has more than 500 members.

Title of the artwork: Menschenhauch 2.
The Diversity of Fantasy

From the "Garden of the Pope" to the "Garden Eden":

The fine thing of being a fantasy artist is the wide diversity of the field. Best examples are my latest two commissions, both having a very similar title but surprisingly different clients.
1) "Garden of the Pope" is the translation of "Clos du Pape". This is the title of a new grand wine of Bordeaux. The etiquette was designed by me and is a variation of a wall painting I´ve painted some years ago on the wall of a winery in La Brede (Bordeaux) where pope Clemes V lived back in the 14th century.

It was a big fun working in France and living in a grand old house, maybe sleeping even in the bed where a pope had slept. (The wall painting is quite popular in this region and saw positive critics in French newspapers and on tv).
2) "Gates to Paradise" is the title of a newly commissioned coverart for the fine, young Aus-trian heavy metal band UNKNOWN DIMENSION. The cover shows a dark, dead world with a big red moon in the back and a gate to the garden Eden in the foreground.

You may visit the band at www.unknowndimension.at
info: The band presents their new CD with my cover art at Nov. 4th in the Rockhouse Salzburg.
All art and content copyright Franz Miklis, 2006. Have questions? Contact me at franz@franzmiklis.com