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Time, Improvisation and Warm Textures — The NFT Art of Andreas Rau
Learn the story behind the creator of Loom, Concrete, About Lines, City Scapes and more…
Today we’ll learn the story behind Andreas Rau, one of the most popular generative NFT artists on Tezos. In less than a year, he has released multiple collections on different Tezos platforms like hit et nunc / teia, fxHash, and objkt.com. His most demanded work is Loom, which is in the top 10 on sales volume on the FxHash marketplace. Anni Albers, Gunta Stölzl, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and Hilma af Klint inspired the color palette (Andreas’ tends to explore historical artists as an inspiration source).
How did you discover NFTs?
It was on an early spring day in 2021 when I decided to create my first NFT, after more and more artists I admire had started to talk about it. I immediately liked the idea of distributing my art to a worldwide audience without having to give away the control to a large corporation, and the benefits of being able to set royalties for future sales of my…