Thomas Häfner


Thomas Häfner was a realistic and fantastic art painter. Häfner was a member of a group of German artists who called themselves the Young Realists, formed in Düsseldorf in the mid-Fifties.
Escaping the horrors of the Second World War, he live for a decade in Ceylon. He studied at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf.
Detail from his painting "Lucifer" is used to illustrate the novel "Moravagine" by Blaise Cendrars.