Lydia Hoffnungsthal

Already as a little girl, Lydia was a curious annoying assistant in her father's graphic design studio, always on the lookout from the leftovers to conjure up creative art pieces. At the same time, she was able to build up a solid foundation early on.
The artist friends of her family, especially the painters, then inspired her and it soon became clear that creativity makes her completely happy. The exploration of the world and Lydia´s environment then started  moving her to any kind of visual creativity and is still on tour for any new elements.
The human form serves as the primary subject for Lydia´s paintings, receiving and reflecting a thought-process partly rooted in Expressionism, in individual and symbolic imagery.The characters are always captured in motion. The preference to fix processes has aroused my long term work with cartoon animation films.
As in the "Figuration-Libre" painting movement, which came into being as a reaction to the over-rationalism of conceptual art, she is drawn to using vigorous and narrative pictorial language in which she combines elements from traditional and archaic artforms with modern references to daily life and subculture, arriving at an ironic critical social and cultural imagery.
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In 1991 Lydia graduated in Fine Art at the University of Design and Art in Cologne, Germany with a Laudatio. I have been a student of Renate Lewandowski and Jörg Immendorf.
For many years she worked as a colour designer for animation cartoons. This influence of the moving cartoons is reflected until now a days in her art. Since 1996 due to light, nature, the sea and social bonders my Center of creation is Mallorca Spain.
Her works are shown all over the world on Art Fairs, galleries and public spaces.

Solo Exhibitions

2021
Flowers Mallorca Agroturismo Son Sureda Mallorca Spain
2018
Seaflowers / Galerie Schröder und Dörr - ¨Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
2014
German Art Month / Abu Dhabi Art Hub - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2012
Amistades Luminosas / Sa Taronja - Andratx, Spain
2010
Personnage / Galerie Schröder und Dörr - Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
2007
Mare Nostrum / Centre d´Art la Real - Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2006
Summer Day Dreams / Light Gallery - London, United Kingdom
1995
Sommerwärme / Stadtgalerie Wesseling - Wesseling, Germany
1995
Terra incognita / Galerie Schröder und Dörr - Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2024
HUMAN RIGHTS? #Dignity Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti Rovereto Trento Italy
Nit de l´Art Manacor Spain
2023
HUMAN RIGHTS? #HOPE Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti Rovereto Trento Italy
Kasaza Art & Design The Imagined Metaphors , New Delhi, India
3rd session of the Zammour International Meeting Art and Tourism Dar Jeddi, Zammour, Tunisia
Abdul Razzaq Hammoudah Forum of Fine Arts Oasis and Sea, Gabes Tunisia
Opera Monteverdi directed by Giuliana Retali and Romina Colotto, Manacor, Spain
2022
Nit de l´Art Manacor Spain
Kasaza Art & Design The Imagined Metaphors, New Delhi, India
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