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Nationality
  
German

Name
  
Loretta Lux


Role
  
Photographer

Known for
  
Photography

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Born
  
1969
Dresden, East Germany

Education
  
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich

Influenced by
  
Lewis Carroll, Diego Velazquez, Bronzino

Similar People
  
Julia Margaret Cameron, Bronzino, Lewis Carroll, Diego Velazquez, Diane Arbus

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Loretta Lux (born 1969) was born in Dresden, East Germany and is a fine art photographer known for her surreal portraits of young children. She lives and works in Ireland.

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Lux has received the Infinity Award for Art from the International Center of Photography. Her work is exhibited widely and held in public collections.

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Life and work

Lux graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Munich in the 1990s, and debuted at the Yossi Milo gallery, New York City in 2004.

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Lux executes her compositions using a combination of photography, painting and digital manipulation. Her work usually features young children. She trained as a painter at Munich Academy of Art, and is influenced by painters such as Agnolo Bronzino, Diego Velázquez, Phillip Otto Runge.

Awards

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  • 2005: Infinity Award for Art from the International Center of Photography.

    • Exhibitions

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  • 2004: Loretta Lux, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York City.
  • 2004: Loretta Lux, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam.
  • 2006: Loretta Lux, Hague Museum of Photography, The Hague.
  • 2006: Loretta Lux, Sixth Moscow Photobiennale, Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow.
  • 2006: Loretta Lux, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York City.
  • 2006: Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands. Solo exhibition.
  • 2007: Loretta Lux, Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • 2008: Loretta Lux, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Monterrey, Mexico.
  • 2009: Loretta Lux, Kulturhuset, Stockholm.

    • Collections

  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
  • J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
  • Art Institute of Chicago.
  • Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
  • Fotomuseum, den Haag.
  • Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
  • Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan.
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

    • References

    Loretta Lux Wikipedia
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