ANDREA LEHNERT

Andrea Lehnert (1974), born in Dortmund, Germany, currently lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. Andrea graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf (2002) and Meisterschüler by Prof. Siegfried Anzinger in Düsseldorf (2002). Since her graduation, Andrea has exhibited widely around Europe. Lehnert has been exhibiting her work in galleries and museums. Among these are Galerie Peter Tedden (Düsseldorf, Germany), Galerie Clairefontaine (Luxembourg) and Galerie ULF Larsson (Cologne, Germany). Her work is included in various public and private collections.

Andrea Lehnert’s work moves between the abstract and the concrete, the rational and the irrational. She finds parallels with the times we live in, a world in which rationality and madness come together. Lehnert’s work is a psychological journey in time. What remains visible and what is covered. But also, how does her work relate to art historical painters such as Velasquez and Matisse. Lehnert’s landscapes manifest themselves as large-scale visual events. Any human bodies present tell a smaller and quieter story.

Lehnert’s mainly large paintings are created without a preconceived plan; flowers, mountains and valleys are formed. Lehnert applies colors in a non-systematic way, allowing them to blend into one another while adding accents with pastels, oil sticks, and paint. Her work is twofold. Lehnert wants to bring order, so that those who view them can orient themselves. At the same time, she shows landscapes that are about to explode, that want to burst out colors and explode with structures.