Lou Loeber

Lou Loeber Untitled (Lampe und Ofen) 1928 Gouache on firm card. 46 x 42 cm. Framed under glass. Monogrammed and dated 'LL '28' lower left in brown. Provenance Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin (label verso); private collection, Berlin Lou Loeber was born as Louise Maria Loeber in Amsterdam on 3 May 1894. The young artist was interested in the avant-garde of the early twentieth century – the art of the cubists, the Blauer Reiter and later the Bauhaus, which she attended in 1927. She read Kandinsky’s pioneering texts “On the Spiritual in Art” and “Point and Line to Plane”. However, the artist found her spiritual and intellectual home primarily among the artists of the de Stijl group: Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg and Bart van der Leck, but also the architects Oud and Rietveld. In contrast to Mondrian and van Doesburg, Loeber did not seek to completely dissolve form; instead, she always maintains contact with the motif in her works, including the present composition. This interior presented in a luminous yellow, ochre, blue and red almost appears to resonate. As one of the important women artists of the Dutch avant-garde, Lou Loeber’s work has been gaining increasing recognition in recent years, and today it is presented with the collection of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, for example.