Ilse at her easel…
Ilse T. Hable was born in Vienna, Austria, where she studied art and received a Masters Degree from the Akademie fuer Angewandte Kunst. She earned several prizes, including 1st prize for the 1970 World Exhibition in Osaka, Japan.
A career as a fashion designer in Europe and Mexico followed during the next twelve years.
In 1983, after moving to California, the artist started dedicating her time exclusively to the fine arts. She has studied with the well-known painters Sebastian Capella, John Asaro, Wolf Kahn, Albert Handell and Bert Silverman.
Ilse T. Hable presented her first One Person Show in La Jolla, CA, in 1987 and has continued exhibiting her work professionally in fourteen individual shows and over twenty group shows. Her work has been exhibited in several museum shows and in commercial galleries in the US and Mexico.
She has been teaching Color Theory as well as courses in Oil Painting since 2007.
Her paintings form part of private collections in the United States, Germany, Austria, Great Britain, Sweden, Canada and Mexico, where she has also participated in the creation of two large scale, public murals.
The artist is represented by Galería Vértice in both Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta, México, and by Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona.