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Research and artistic journey
The artistic journey of Verena von Lichtenberg is built upon a constant tension between structure and freedom, technical heritage and the necessity of expression.
Rooted in a demanding academic training in drawing, perspective, and accurate representation, her work was initially grounded in a rigorous mastery of line and spatial construction.
This original discipline forms the silent foundation of all her pictorial research.
Gradually, painting frees itself from descriptive representation to become a field of perception. Colour no longer describes the landscape: it constructs it.
Light becomes matter, and the superimposition of pictorial layers becomes a structuring language.
The early series - Fields of Provence, Morning Dew, Summer Fulfilment - explore the relationship between landscape, memory, and chromatic vibration.
Southern France appears as a formative space, dominated by complementary orange-blue harmonies and a search for intense luminosity.
With the following series (Western Cape, American Dream, Spirit of Escape), the gaze shifts toward the Atlantic.
The horizon becomes a mental structure, and the landscape is transformed into a trajectory.
The cycles Hope of Day, Hope of Night, Spirit, and Horizon mark a transition toward a more essential painting, centred on light as an inner construction. The northern series - Nord Licht, Aurora Borealis - deepen this exploration until the motif gradually disappears in favour of luminous vibration.
With Southern Light, Asian Lights, and Lux, light reaches a state of extreme concentration.
Finally, Eruption marks a final intensification of the pictorial language, where matter becomes energy and movement.
The body of work as a whole may thus be read as a continuous journey: from the real landscape toward a mental space where light becomes the true subject of painting.
1989 – 1993 School of Architecture and Fine Arts Graphic Design at Darmstadt
1998 – 2003 perpective, lines and drain,
landscapes of Arcachon
The study of the vanishing line
joint nesting and illusion
representation in three dimensions black and white time
2003 – 2005 Colors and their strength, orange and blue oil
the landscape of southern France
2004 – 2005 The solids,
landscapes of Greece oil
Confrontation and mass of solid color complementary color
light intensity
exaggerated by the abstract
2004 – 2006 The line and the vanishing point, orange and blue acrylic
landscapes of the warm sea
The need for hope and research
the need to ignore this
the desire and aspiration of support by the hope in the future
2005 – 2006 The naked female blue acrylic
silhouette busts
the midnight sun and full shade of the Day black with grey
is essentially the way, the color is handrail
expression and dynamism driven by a desire for future
The sweetness of hope for love
2012 – 2015 Nord-Licht - Aurora Borealis
2015 – 2018 Lumière Australe
2018 – 2019 Asian Lights
2019 – 2019 Lux
Since 2020 Eruption
