John Wegner — Paintings Photographed by Mitch Rossow
Fine Art Oil & Portrait Painter
John Wegner is a Minneapolis painter whose oil portraits and figure work draw on the tradition of classical realism and poetic realism — subjects rendered with close attention to value, edge, and layered depth. His paintings include both original compositions and studies after the Old Masters, Bouguereau in particular, which speaks to how seriously he approaches the fundamentals.
His training spans Brushworks School of Art in Burnsville, Joe Paquet’s studio in St. Paul, Thomas Fluharty in Prior Lake, The Atelier in Minneapolis, and The Art Academy in St. Paul. In 2018 he attended a portrait drawing workshop at the Florence Academy of Art in Jersey City, NJ, and in 2019 traveled to Florence, Italy for further workshops in drawing, painting, and art history at the same institution.
John’s work — whether original compositions or master studies in the classical tradition — calls for photography that matches the precision of the painting. Schedule your own session →
