Loretta Lux

LORETTA LUX (Dresden, Germany, 1969).
"Hugo and Dylan 1", 2006.
Photography, edition 10/20.
Work referenced on the artist's website.
Measurements: 27 x 22 cm; 50 x 40 cm (frame).

The resounding success of photographer Loretta Lux lies, in part, in her cold and unsentimental approach to the children captured through her lens. Her snapshots, which have more to do with metaphors of childhood innocence than with the psychology of individuals, are influenced by the bourgeois portraits of the early twentieth century, showing us young models in domestic settings dressed in eccentric outfits that are now considered old-fashioned. Aesthetically, the mixture of photography, painting and digital manipulation is appreciated, by means of which Lux distorts proportions and places the children in static scenarios.

Loretta Lux left East Germany shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall to travel to Munich, where she studied painting at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste. In 1999 she began taking photographs. She was awarded the 2005 Infinity Award for Art, International Center of Photography, New York, NY. Throughout her career she has exhibited in Israel, Italy, Switzerland, Mexico, Netherlands, USA, Russia, Germany (solo). Currently his work is part of public collections such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the National Museum of Art in Osaka, the Photo Museum in Munich, the Musée de l'Elysée de Lausanne in Switzerland, the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in Paris, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem in Israel, the Gemeentemuseum Helmond in the Netherlands, the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne and the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. In the United States: the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum or the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He currently lives and works in Ireland.