Page 112 - World of Art Contemporary Art magazine: The 2023 Guggenheim issue

WATER LILIES, 2022 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 35,43 X27,60 IN. | 90X70 CM.
FINE ART CULTURE WAVES, 2020 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 27,56X27,56 IN. | 70X70 CM.
MARCIANA MARINA, 2022 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 39,37 X 31,50 IN. | 100X80 CM.

ERNA KLAUS
Lives and works in München, Germany
https://www.ernaklaus.com/

It's always a pleasure to pay proper artistic homage to the season of
the earth's awakening - spring. The flower with all its delicate elegance
is the absolute protagonist in the works of Erna Klaus, a painter with a
distinctive style that perfectly balances formal synthesis and chromatic
richness: the soaring poppies and the supple water lilies stand out from
the others and their stems seem born from a calibrated, dripping and
convincing graphic stroke, the refined amaryllis almost turn into a dull
and ideal fireworks. It is easy to be touched by such works because
they touch the heart with grace and sincerity.

The works of Erna Klaus take on a double meaning: they are paintings
but also memories; the artist in fact uses painting and materials that
are directly inspired by an event or a lived experience and therefore are
configured as lyrical evocations imbued with emotions and colors.

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