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Heinie Hartwig became a painter of primarily western subjects although he also does landscapes and still lifes.

The tone of his work is primarily romantic. He started painting in 1970, working on his art in the evenings, and a year later quit his job and began painting for a living.

He grew up in the Santa Clara Valley of California, and left for three years to spend time traveling through Europe with the Army.

He was in Germany as the Berlin Wall went up and persuaded his wife, Eva, to leave East Germany to marry him. Returning to Santa Clara, he worked pouring concrete, and spent a lot of time running marathons.

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In 1964 he held the record for long distance running in Northern California. By 1991, he was in "Who's Who in American Art".

Hartwig taught himself to paint by studying the "Old Masters” and invested much of his time experimenting with their