Excited to hold our office open again on First Friday March the 3rd!
Please join us as we celebrate the night in our new downtown office and come meet our featured artist. You can purchase his works. We’ll have refreshments, swag, and friendly faces.
Stop by our Downtown Bend office to see some amazing art by David Kreitzer!
David Kreitzer
WEST + MAIN HOMES
750 NW Lava Rd. Bend, OR 97703
3.3.2023, 5-8pm
Meet David!
In the tradition of Turner and Cezanne, painter David Kreitzer's love of nature, fantasy, and the human form, propels him to create exquisitely detailed, mood-invoking landscapes, figures, and striking still life floral studies in a variety of mediums.
"David Kreitzer...is a highly traditional figure painter who demonstrates how much poetic intensity the old tradition can still contain." Thomas Albright, SF Chronicle
Learn more about David in our Q+A!
How did your business come to exist?
A full time artist since he received his Masters in Painting at San Jose State University in 1967, David grew up as the son of a Lutheran minister who, due to his vocation, moved his family frequently throughout the Nebraska countryside. Kreitzers' works are in the collections of Howard and Roberta Ahmanson, Hirschhorn Foundation, Revlon Coporation, Olga Corporation, Barnes-Hind Corporation, Sinclair Paints, Lloyd's Bank, Cargill Corporation, and the San Diego, Santa Barbara, Nebraska, and Minnesota Museums. Private collectors include Ray Bradbury, Mary Tyler Moore, Michael Douglas, Pepe Romero, Quinn Martin, Raymond Burr, and Robert and Linda Takken.
What are you known for?
Kreitzer’s career was launched by a 1967 sold out show at Maxwell Galleries in San Francisco, and he went on to exhibit his work in numerous one-man shows across the country, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Carmel, Denver, Dallas and Seattle. Most recently he exhibited a very successful one man show in Seattle in conjunction with the Seattle Opera Ring Festival, and the San Luis Obispo Art Museum. Here in Bend, the Spring 2021 Western Home Journal features him prominently with six pages of interviews and images, and he is the featured artist for the Sunriver Magazine and Sunriver Music Festival. Mr. Kreitzer executed two covers for Atlantic Magazine, and was featured artist in American Artist Magazine and the book "The Sacred Landscape.” He has been listed for many years in "Who's Who in American Art," "Who's Who in California," and "Who's Who in America.
What are you working on right now?
His "Tristan and Isolde" and "Siegfried" posters, commissioned by Seattle Opera in 1981, are still collected world -wide. Commissions include covers for the Atlantic Magazine, American Artist Magazine, and the Performing Arts Magazine of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. He now resides in Bend with his wife, celebrated opera singer Jacalyn Kreitzer. His son Anatol is a Neuro-Biologist, married to scientist daughter-in-law Faith with 2 grandchildren. His daughter Frederica, a graduate of UC Berkeley in Philosophy, works as an IT Engineer for Facebook.
If you are a local artist/crafter/maker/indie business owner and would like to be featured on our blog, please fill out this form or contact Greg Fischer at greg@westandmainoregon.com with questions...we can't wait to learn all about you!
