Charlotte Lichtblau

Born in Vienna in 1925, Charlotte Lichtblau came to the United States in 1940 with her parents and sister. She lived and worked in New York City from 1953. Following her emigration to America, she returned repeatedly to Austria, primarily to Vienna and to her childhood summer home in Altaussee, in Austria’s Salzkammergut region.

For more than five decades, Lichtblau exhibited her works in galleries, museums, universities, and churches in New York City and throughout the United States. She has had two major career retrospective exhibitions in Austria, one at the Palais Palffy in Vienna (1994) and the second in the Pfarrheim Arts Center in Bad Aussee, near Altaussee (2002).

For the artist, the discipline of painting is a way of exploring, expressing and communicating the passion of human existence. A significant portion of her work is focused on biblical themes, most notably the Passion of Christ. Here, the visual transformation into imagery addresses familiar religious themes internally and directly. While her paintings of religious subjects are boldly contemporary, they honor both the history of ecclesiastical imagery and the artistic traditions of German Expressionist painting.

A planned career retrospective in...

SOLO / DUO SHOWS
2015 New York, NY Chthonic / Sublime: A Memorial Show for Charlotte Lichtblau & Sy Gresser George Billis Gallery, Chelsea

2010 New York, NY Rubin Private Gallery

2009 New Haven, CT St. Thomas More, Yale University: Incarnate, Images of Lent

2008 New York, NY St. Vincent Ferrer Church: Incarnate, Images of Lent for Advent

2003 Bad Aussee, Austria Pfarrheim Art Center: Origin and Transformation

1994 Vienna, Austria Palais Palffy:

1992 Dallas, TX Biblical Arts Center

1986 New York, NY Greene St. Gallery: Birthrights, Blood Rites (w/ sculptor Sy Gresser)

1986 Durham, NC University Chapel, Duke University: Birthrights, Blood Rites (w/ sculptor Sy Gresser)

1985 Sweet Briar, VA Sweet Briar College: The Innermost Soul (w/ sculptor Sy Gresser)

1976 New York, NY Museum of Religious Art, Cathedral of St. John the Divine

1974 New York, NY Museum of Religious Art, Cathedral of St. John the Divine

1974 New York, NY Fordham University

1974 New Haven, CT Yale School of Divinity

1974 New York, NY St. Peter’s Lutheran Church

1973 New York, NY NoHo Gallery

1972 New Haven, CT Yale School of Divinity

1971 Baltimore, MD Gormley Gallery, College of No...