erstein – FTN-blog

Last December we visited the Wurth Museum in Erstein and were blown away by the small retropective the museum presented on Lore Bert

Lore Bert, born on July 2nd in Gießen (Germany) in 1936, was raised in Darmstadt. From 1953 to 1957, she studied painting in Darmstadt and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, under the tutelage of the esteemed sculptor Professor Hans Uhlmann.

Throughout her artistic career spanning over four decades, it is evident that paper and space have been the fundamental components of her work. Since 1982, she has been creating collages, reliefs, transparencies, and sculptures using Far Eastern papers on paper, canvas, and later on, wood. In 1984, she started constructing installations, paper rooms, and environments using various materials. Her work has since evolved to include neon letters, neon tubes, oriental neon numbers, and neon spheres, resulting in complete neon spaces.

Until 2019, Lore has realized more than 125 environmental installations in public spaces across Europe, Asia, Africa, Arabic countries, the USA, and Mexico. In 1996, during her significant exhibitions in Cairo (Egypt), she incorporated the use of papyrus and gold leaf into her work.

Constructive, geometrical, and architectural shapes and ornaments, along with numbers and letters, are the key elements in Lore’s artistic expression. Drawing inspiration from humanities and sciences, poetic and philosophical writings, astronomy, logical constellations, mathematics, abstract qualities, and universal relations, she creates artwork that showcases the poetic beauty of the absolute. Her work also explores the historical circumstances and cultural characteristics of various countries, transforming them into captivating pieces of art.

With over 280 solo and group exhibitions spanning 28 different countries, Lore’s work is a testament to the “Dialogue of Cultures.” Her extensive portfolio has been published in more than 110 books and catalogs, including over 40 monographs featuring her solo exhibitions in various museums.

www.ftn-books.com has now some Lore Bert publicatiuons available.

A recent 4 day visit to France , the Alsace region , brought us not only 3 wonderful dinners at the Auberge Frankenbourg,

but also made us visit the Museum Würth in Erstein. Some 30 kilometers from the place we stayed and 15 Km from Strasbourg. The museum located behind the “factory” of Würth, does not look like the museum one knows. Modern museum like building, but what struck me most was that it more looked like a storage with some exhibition facilities. The art itself was “my cup of tea” . Modern art with a focus on the last 50 years, but Linda did not like it at all. I thought the museum had some “A” quality art, but at the same time i think that this private collection holds the great and famous names, but hardly has any personal approach to art and collection looks like a random selected catalogue of the great names in todays Modern Art. Still there were 3 items i think were very special. First there was a portrait of a woman by Walter Becker.

in which the position of the legs and arms made it almost a constructivist painting. Secondly Secondly the statue by Mimmo Paladino. and thirdly there was a large Andy Warhol drawing. A design /sketch for a large silkscreen in which the outline of the picture could clearly be seen.

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I never had seen one of these before which made the visit special enough. Würth has some 10 locations with museums spread all over Europe, including one in Den Bosch in the Netherlands which we shall visit in the near future.

Ps. How about the similarities between the portraits by Rosemin Hendriks and Andy Warhol. Perhaps Warhol has been a source of inspiration?

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