Lore Rhomberg
Leonore "Lore" Rhomberg (born April 10, 1923 in Dornbirn , Vorarlberg as Leonore Hämmerle ; † July 11, 2016 there ) was an Austrian artist .
Short biography
Rhomberg was born in 1923 as the daughter of Grete Hämmerle (née Fallscheer; 1894–1980) and Hubert Hämmerle (1891–1973). She was the middle of three daughters. From 1940 to 1943 she studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Munich with Fritz Skell (natural science drawing and water color painting), but had to interrupt her studies due to the Second World War . From 1946 to 1948 she completed her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Zeller (drawing) and Fritz Steisslinger (painting).
In 1950 she married Manfred Rhomberg (1923–2007), with whom she had three sons.
Lore Rhomberg lived and worked in Dornbirn and Schwarzenberg .
Artistic creation
Based on the text for the exhibition on the 90th birthday in Schwarzenberg, 2013
Watercolor was Lore Rhomberg's preferred medium. In this way of painting, the water dissolves the color, blurs it and thereby determines its intensity. Deeper layers of paint are not covered, but remain visible. These properties give the watercolor a light, translucent character and imply a structure of the color combination, from light to dark. The artist has developed the technique of watercolor painting, which hardly allows later correction, to high precision. Each color surface seems to have been carefully considered on the one hand and put on paper with refreshing spontaneity on the other. It shows the dynamic directness with which the brushstrokes were set. The practiced mastery of the application of paint enables the artist to make her own ideas and views visible from her sensation and to repeatedly cross the border to the abstract. Lore Rhomberg often works on a topic with several sheets at the same time, but with precise ideas. She finds inspiration in the observed environment, which she translates into painted feelings. Intuition and feeling play a major role for Lore Rhomberg, both in the choice of shapes and in the strong colors.
Even as a schoolgirl, the artist used pencil and paint at every opportunity to record her impressions and thoughts. Instead of sweets, she wanted drawing paper on which she illustrated the fairy tales and stories she had heard. During her studies in Stuttgart, Lore Rhomberg first came into contact with German Expressionism, which had a lasting impact on her artistic development. Recurring comparisons with the expressive colors of Emil Nolde are therefore no coincidence. Her motifs remain largely figurative, which is expressed, among other things, in numerous landscape and nature views. During her youth, Lore Rhomberg had a deep desire to illustrate children's books. She repeatedly returns to this childhood dream by devoting herself artistically to her Steiff teddy bears or Käthe Kruse dolls .
After getting married and starting a family, Lore Rhomberg remained true to her passion for creating art, despite limited time, and moved her artistic work to the edge of the day. In the evening she made the sketches, which she implemented the next day, in the early morning hours, with brush and paint.
From 1979 Schwarzenberg became her adopted home, where she spent a large part of the week. The atmospheric landscapes of Schwarzenberg and the Bregenzerwald inspired numerous new motifs. These motifs are also reflected in the cycle of works “ An Alpine Symphony according to Richard Strauss ”. The series of 22 pictures was created between 1982 and 1984 and was at that time the high point of her creative period. With a fascination for the flowing, Lore Rhomberg converted the sounds he heard into colors. In doing so, she did not imitate nature, but illustrated her feelings once more, always with the necessary balance between intense colors and delicately restrained transparency. The work cycle was last seen in 1986 in the former gallery of the State Opera in Vienna and returned for the first time in 2013 with 10 pictures from the series to the place of origin, in Schwarzenberg, in the Angelika Kauffmann Museum.
Appreciations
“For Lore Rhomberg's style of painting, Moldovan's description applies exactly. Radiant blue of a sky, harsh light and strong shadows are not what the artist is looking for and needs. On the contrary, in the intermediate light, the water color comes to its most magical beauty. One of the great masters of the watercolor is Lore Rhomberg. What she knows how to make out of her palette of colors has the internalization and poetry of some Nolde pictures. "
"With the Alpine Symphony, Lore Rhomberg has created a formally tamed work ... You could call the style mezzo-realism: the plasticity of real things is dissolved into a sparse flatness of the image level and almost only exists as an illusion ... Everywhere there is a state between dream and reality manufactured, often one also believes to perceive symbols. With these pictures, the artist has succeeded not only in creating an unusual homage for the music of "An Alpine Symphony", but also an independent homage to the mountains of the Alps. "
Exhibitions
- 1965 Thurn and Taxis, Bregenz (A)
- 1973 Palais Liechtenstein, Feldkirch (A)
- 1976 Neufeld Gallery, Lustenau (A)
- 1977 Neufeld Gallery, Au (CH)
- 1981 Neufeld Gallery, Zurich (CH)
- 1983 Gallery in the Sonnenburg, Lech (A)
- 1983 Haas Gallery, Vaduz (FL)
- 1984 Kulturhaus, Dornbirn (A), presentation of the work cycle “An Alpine Symphony after Richard Strauss” with presentation of the book
- 1986 Gallery in the State Opera, Vienna (A)
- 1988 Gallery at Lindenplatz, Schaan (FL)
- 1990 Gallery in Zollgasse, Dornbirn (A)
- 1993 LH-Rhomberg-Haus, Dornbirn (A), on the 70th birthday in connection with the presentation of the book "Lore Rhomberg - Aquarelle"
- 1995 Gallery in the Sonnenburg, Lech (A)
- 1995 Gallery in Zollgasse, Dornbirn (A), "Hommage à Nolde"
- 2001 Gallery at Lindenplatz, Vaduz (FL)
- 2005 Rohnerhaus, Lauterach (A), "The Rhomberg family of painters"
- 2006 Angelika Kauffmann-Saal, Schwarzenberg (A), "Leopold Fetz / Lore Rhomberg"
- 2008 c.art, Dornbirn (A)
- 2011 Gallery in the Sonnenburg, Lech (A)
- 2013 Angelika Kauffmann Museum, Schwarzenberg (A)
literature
- Watercolors from Liechtenstein and Vorarlberg, introduction by Dr. W. Koschatzky, Art & Edition Haas, Vaduz 1983.
- Lore Rhomberg: An Alpine Symphony after Richard Strauss, introduction by Eduard Hammerl, Art & Edition Haas, Vaduz 1984, DNB 880866683 .
- Painters from Liechtenstein and Vorarlberg, Art & Edition Haas, Vaduz 1986.
- Lore Rhomberg: Watercolors with lyric poems by Joseph Kopf, Art & Edition Haas, Dornbirn 1993.
- Rhomberg family of painters, 19. – 20. Century from Romanticism to the Present, Art in the Rohnerhaus, Lauterach 2005, ISBN 978-3-200-00470-2 .
- Short biography and sources, p. 258. In: Susanne Fink, Cornelia Rothmund: Fine arts in Vorarlberg. 1945-2005. Biographical lexicon. Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bucher-Verlag, Hohenems 2006, ISBN 978-3-902525-36-9 .
- Lore Rhomberg: Oil paintings and watercolors 1954–2007 , Dornbirn 2008.
Web links
- Literature by and about Lore Rhomberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lore Rhomberg - watercolors
- The Rhomberg family of painters
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rhomberg, Lore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rhomberg, Leonore; Hämmerle, Leonore (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dornbirn , Vorarlberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 2016 |
| Place of death | Dornbirn , Vorarlberg |