As a young child, Lydia was already a perceptive, obnoxious helper in her father's graphic design studio, constantly searching for scraps to create imaginative artwork.

She was able to establish a strong foundation early on at the same time. Her family's artistic friends, particularly the painters, then served as her inspiration, and it quickly became evident that she finds complete joy in creating art.

She then began to move with any kind of visual creativity as a result of her exploration of the world and her surroundings, and she continues to travel every day in search of fresh components.

Renate Lewandowski and Jörg Immendorff were her teachers at the University of Design and Art in Cologne, Germany, where she received a Laudation in Fine Art in 1991.

Her vibrant artworks reflect her experience as a color designer for animated cartoons. Because of the sea, light, and social ties, Mallorca, Spain, has been her center of creation since 1996.

Her artwork has been shown at art fairs, galleries, and public places in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, North America, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Tunisia, and the United Kingdom.

 

In Lydia Hoffnungsthal's paintings, the human form is the main focus. Characters are constantly shown moving. She is taking in and reflecting a way of thinking that has some roots in expressionism as well as in personal and symbolic imagery. She is drawn to using vibrant and narrative pictorial language, similar to the “Figuration-Libre" painting movement, which emerged as a response to the over-rationalism of conceptual art. Furthermore, she likes to blend elements from traditional and archaic art forms with contemporary references to everyday life and subculture, resulting in an ironic critical imagery of social and cultural issues.

In her abstract-figurative-style artworks, she places particular emphasis on color, its composition, and the structure of the background. Therefore, she aims for strong contrasts of unsullied purity of the colors-by-themselves, further strengthened by the use of thin color glazes to achieve the strongest possible luminosity reflected from the pure white background. Suggestive spatial perspectives and temperature sensations arise from the use of cold/warm color contrasts. Complementary colors reinforce each other's luminosity.

A quantitative contrast, using different-sized color surfaces in combination with contrasting materials such as silk, aged wood, unfired clay, bamboo, burlap, and matte and glossy coats of paint, generates maximum optical tension in the overall concept. Resulting in a forceful and decisive artwork. 

 

BY SIMONA ALBANI ON 28 AUGUST 2014

Not only canvas and colors for the artworks of this cheerful and creative artist.

Imagination runs to pick up as various as it could be combined and re-elaborated.

Sand and blades of grass find their own perfect position in the inner image in which those elements cannot avoid to make part of it.

Jute and silk fragments dress the canvas leading the dance of characters; everything seems to move; the artist’s paintings light up with life and nature and thanks to the raw materials that mother earth offers , Lydia can tell her rich universe, letting space to the unlimited possibilities she has to collect the possible and the impossible.

Her stories are provocative collage, a rebel expression of a return to the origins , as if ant object and image were necessarily tied to the roots of our earth.

Trees, flowers and the sea are the that priceless relationship, the power of life, that nobody should never let go.