Stefan Haenni (born August 4, 1958 in Thun) is a Swiss painter and a crime novel writer.
Stefan Haenni visited the Schule für Gestaltung in Bern and studied at the University of Bern and the Université de Fribourg history of art and psychology. With his painting Haenni reached in the 1980 first appreciations. He realized among other things works with the portraits from the Nobelprice winner Nagib Machfus and the surrealistic Swiss painter Meret Oppenheim. The leading subject of modern oriental painting reached Haenni after a trip along the Nile in 1990. Many works were created after that like West-östlicher Divan from Goethe, the series of Monde Arabe and Lawrence of Arabia – new paintings about an old film. His works are collected in several Swiss Museums of Modern Art, Swiss Banks (BEKB, Credit Suisse, UBS) and private Art-Collections. Since a few years, Stefan Haenni is also writing crime novels in German. He lives in Thun/Switzerland.
1984: Stefan Haenni, Galerie Wendeltreppe, Schloss Schadau, Thun/Switzerland
1985: Young artists, Volkswirtschaftskammer from the Berner Oberland, Interlaken
1986: 3 young artists: Stefan Haenni, Roland Berger, Theo Schneiter, Galerie am Kreis, Bern
1988: Milkproject, Intermilch, Ostermundigen
1988: Vernissage without works, Galerie am Kreis, Bern
1989: Works, Galerie am Kreis, Bern
1989: People and Portraits, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York
1990: Projekt Querschnitt, Kinomuseum Moskau
1991: Projekt Querschnitt, Freiraum Helmkestrasse, Hannover
1991: Querschnitt – the Printedition, Weisser Saal, Museum of modern art, Bern/Switzerland
1992: Querschnitt ist tot - es lebe der Querschnitt, Kunstmuseum Thun
1994: Barocklahoma, Galerie Martin Krebs, Bern
1995: Mannsbilder – Frauenzimmer (Sylvie Fleury, Urs Stooss, David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Stefan Haenni), Galerie Martin Krebs, Bern
1996: Kunst 96, Internationale Kunstmesse, Zürich
1997: New pictures from Aegypt, Galerie Martin Krebs, Bern
1997: From the beginning of art, museum of modern art Olten/Switzerland
1997: Kunst 97, Internationale Kunstmesse, Zürich
1999: Konnex Kairo, Stefan Haenni, Not Vital a.o., Museum of modern art Thun/Switzerland
1999: The promised Rosegarden, Galerie Martin Krebs, Bern
2004: Lawrence of Arabia, Galerie Martin Krebs, Bern
2006: From the Niesen to the pyramids, Galerie Martin Krebs, Bern
2008: Orient and Okzident, Villa Schüpbach, Art Collection Steffisburg
2009: Durch die Blume (Flower view), Samuel Buri, Dieter Hall, Stefan Haenni, Shirina Shabhazi, Urs Stooss, Galerie Martin Krebs, Bern
2010: Stefan Haenni – best of, Galerie Martin Krebs, Bern
2013: A bed of roses, Stefan Haenni, Ottmar Hörl, David Hockney, Christian Lindow, Pat Noser, Urs Stooss, Galerie Martin Krebs, Bern
2013: Dazzling, New pictures and tondos, Galerie Martin Krebs, Bern
2015: United Colors, Jim Avignon, Stefan Haenni, Ottmar Hörl, Teruko Yokoi, Shirina Shahbazi a.o., Galerie Martin Krebs, Bern
Narrentod. Ein Kriminalroman aus dem Berner Oberland. Gmeiner, Messkirch 2009, ISBN 978-3-89977-799-4.
Brahmsrösi. Fellers zweiter Fall. Gmeiner, Messkirch 2010, ISBN 978-3-8392-1036-9.
Scherbenhaufen. Fellers dritter Fall. Gmeiner, Messkirch 2011, ISBN 978-3-8392-1193-9.
