Brigitta Westphal

Brigitta Westphal ( born 1944 in Burgoberbach / Middle Franconia ) is a German painter.

Life

She grew up in Franconia artist lived long in the Frankfurt area. In recent years, her center of life, between the Franconian home and the southern Toscana changes.

Priorities in the work of Brigitta Westphal are man and nature, the biographical component plays a major role.

" The oil paintings, mixed media and etchings by Brigitta Westphal are mysteries of color, form and structure, surrealistic images of the cross-border hover between waking and dreaming "

The encounter with Robert Musil's masterpiece " The Man Without Qualities " was for the artist a key experience. From the close connection to this poet two cycles emerged with 14 oil paintings. Since 1986, therefore, a part of the reaction of literature in painting has become an important part of their work. Breaks that appear between the phases of work, caused by frequently changing living and jobs in Germany and Italy.

Publications

• Musil paraphrases: an artistic exploration of Musil's " man without qualities ". Lang, Bern Part 1: 1995, ISBN 3-906755-14-2 ( with foreword and postscript by Karl Corino )
• Part 2: 1999, ISBN 3-906761-90-8