About
the Artist

The artist Andreas Hentrich was born in 1952 and grew up in Ditzingen near Stuttgart, very close to famous car manufacturers. Already at the age of eight years began his development into an absolute automobile enthusiast. He passionately painted cars, motorcycles, racing cars and told his father (an artist and educator) that he wanted to become a racing driver or car painter.

First he attended school in Ditzingen, then graduated from high school in Stuttgart, followed by a degree in art & psychology. Following his own artistic inspirations, he began to produce art prints in 1976 and in 1979 created the first Andreas tin prints. In the same year he found a limitless market for his metal graphics in the United States of America.

• From 1979 followed a total of 26 trips to America.
• 1981 purchase of a yellow Porsche 356 race car.
• 15 years of historical car racing in the European Championship (Hockenheim, Nürburgring, Monza, Most).
• 1985 – 1990 Car races in California on famous race tracks on the American West Coast (Riverside, Laguna Seca, Willow Springs and Palm Springs), which remained unforgotten in his memories and influenced his artistic work.

Through a boundless self-promotion, in which Andreas spared no effort, ways, time and money, he built up a worldwide exclusive market for his Andreas graphics, whereby the name ANDREAS today stands for the METALLIC SHINING ARTISTIC WORK.

They are worldwide rarities. They can be seen, for example, in Abu Dhabi, in one of the most valuable private car collections in the world. Metallic automotive graphics, recognizable by the long-stretched signature.