About me · danh1z

I traded my drawings for snacks in elementary school.

Not because I was hungry. But because others wanted the drawings. That was the first time I understood: a picture can mean something to someone who didn't paint it.

My mother is a trained porcelain painter. As a child, I watched her, painted with her, listened, long before I understood what painting actually meant. This precision, this calm in handling color, imprinted itself on me early on.

In school, teachers praised my drawings. Students bought them. My last teacher recommended the vocational school for glass and jewelry in Kaufbeuren. I went.

The training showed me what craftsmanship really means. Layers. Patience. Control. Color that is built up, not just thrown on. That wasn't a detour; it's the foundation of everything I do today.

Since 2019, I have been working as a freelance artist under the name danh1z. The motifs change – animals, cars, people. What remains is the way of painting: building up, reworking, revealing. Palette knife, brush, flowing paint. Control that meets letting go.

I was born in Leipzig, grew up in Bavaria, and have been back in Leipzig for several years. This is where I paint. Everything else is the result of simply keeping at it.

— Daniel Heinz, Leipzig