| Loretta Lux | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1969 Dresden, East Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Field | Photography |
| Training | Academy of Visual Arts |
| Influenced by | Agnolo Bronzino, Diego Velázquez, Phillip Otto Runge, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll |
Loretta Lux (born 1969) was born in Dresden, East Germany and is a fine art photographer known for her surreal portraits of young children. She currently lives and works in Monaco.
Lux graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Munich in the 1990s, and debuted at the Yossi Milo gallery, New York in 2004. The show put both Yossi Milo and Loretta Lux on the map, selling out and setting prices never before seen from a new gallery.
In 2005, Lux received the Infinity Award for Art from the International Center of Photography. Her work has since been exhibited extensively abroad, including solo exhibitions in 2006 at the Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands, and the Sixth Moscow Photobiennale. Her work is included in numerous museums collections worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Fotomuseum, den Haag; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, and National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan. She has had portfolios featured in numerous fine art magazines.
The artist executes her compositions using a combination of photography, painting and digital manipulation. Lux's work usually features young children and is influenced by a variety of sources. She originally trained as a painter at Munich Academy of Art, and is influenced by painters such as Agnolo Bronzino, Diego Velázquez, Phillip Otto Runge. Lux also owes a debt to the famous Victorian photographic portraitists of childhood such as Julia Margaret Cameron and Lewis Carroll.
2009 “Loretta Lux”, Kulturhuset, Stockholm .
2008 “loretta lux”, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Monterrey, Mexico
2007 “loretta lux ", Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2006 “loretta lux ”, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York City
2006 “loretta lux”, Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow
2006 “loretta lux", Hague Museum of Photography, The Hague
2004 “Loretta Lux”, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam
2004 “Loretta Lux”, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York City
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