Christine Röhrl-Lippert
born in 1960, graphic artist and painter, sculptor
Christine Röhrl-Lippert, born in 1960, has made women of stature her subject: Female figures in voluptuous, round forms who seem supremely aware of the impact of their femininity. Röhrl-Lippert not only transforms them into paintings, but she also makes her heroines appear three-dimensional.
As a balance to her work as a graphic designer, Christine Röhrl-Lippert began with her first voluminous sculptures of women in clay. Women not only became her central motif but a projection surface for earthiness, strength and energy. The curves, forms and the suggested heaviness of the female figures in Röhrl-Lippert's paintings take up elements of her sculptures. For the artist, joie de vivre and lust for life play a primary role, independent of social norms. Her female figures eventually develop an increasingly fascinating life of their own.
Röhrl-Lippert is fascinated by the contradictions and illusions in her work: "Formal heaviness is neutralised by the lightness of the painting style and the playfulness of the elements".
