Douglas Wiltraut, one of America's foremost painters in egg tempera and dry brush watercolor, graduated from Kutztown University, Kutztown, in 1973 with a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting.
Currently the President of the National Society of Painters in Casein & Acrylic Inc., he has been the recipient of the Butler Institute of American Art Award, the Today’s Art Medal, the Knickerbocker Artists Gold and Silver Medals of Honor and the Ralph Fabri Medal (three-time recipient).
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In 1999 he was awarded the Adirondacks Wilderness Award with the Rouse Gold Medallion, followed by the Trails & Streams Medal in 2000, both in the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors.
Doug was the subject of a feature article on egg tempera painting in both “American Artist” and “The Artist’s Magazine,” and his acrylic paintings were discussed in an article in “Palette Talk.” He conducted the Brandywine Workshop in egg tempera painting for “American Artist” and his work was included in the “American Artist Golden Anniversary Exhibition” and the Berman Museum of Art Inaugural Exhibition. In 1998, he received the Arts Ovation Award from the City of Allentown.
“There is a beauty to the passage of time and the effects it has on objects and people. Timeworn textures, a face with a story to tell, the patina of life are all things I like to portray. The passage of time is something we all have to deal with. I almost always paint these objects and people in a strong, raking sunlight with elongated shadows, which results in what I refer to as a ‘special visual moment,’ a moment when the ordinary is elevated to something memorable.”
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