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 public and private collections.

Andrea Lehnert’s work moves between the abstract and the concrete, the rational and the unreasonable. 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. She applies colors incoherently, blurs them and places accents with pastel and oil chalk and paint. Mountains, valleys and lava flows are formed. 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 structures.