Douglas Wiltraut

Bleached

2024

Douglas Wiltraut is one of America's foremost painters in egg tempera and dry brush watercolor. He graduated from Kutztown University, Kutztown with a BFA in Painting in 1973. Currently, the President of the National Society of Painters in Casein & Acrylic, Inc., Wiltraut has been the recipient of the Butler Institute of American Art Award, Today’s Art Medal, the Knickerbocker Artists Gold and Silver Medals of Honor and four-time recipient of the Ralph Fabri Medal. 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. Wiltraut 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 magazine, and his work was included in the American Artist Golden Anniversary Exhibition and the Berman Museum of Art Inaugural Exhibition. In 1998, Wiltraut received the Arts Ovation Award from the City of Allentown.