Loni KREUDER


“Love is the desire to give not to receive”

 

Kreuder graduated from l’Ecole des Beaux Arts of Dusseldorf then studied in Amsterdam, Oslo, France and Greece. This added a greater diversity to her range of ideas, symbols and subjects. She has been showing since 1974. Her outdoor sculptures and fountains decorate several beautiful sites in Europe.


She adopted the subject matter of humanity: man and his place in the wonderful and contradictory variety of life.


Other sculptors such as Henry Moore, philosophers like Kant, Goethe, Sartre, and Lao-tzu and writers like Bernard Shaw, Brecht, Rousseau and Camus, inspired her to reflect in her sculptures all the emotions of mankind. The relationships that exist between a man and a woman, friends, between children and their mother.


Her sculptures are between figurative and abstract: we don’t see the face but can seize the expression and the emotion felt by the person sculpted.


Her lines are curved giving a warm feeling of security. In simplicity of expression she illustrates dreams, hopes, life from birth to death passing by the love, temptation, forgiveness, and the need of communication with others: Conversation and persuasion. In addition, she has sculpted some mythological figures and heroes like Daphne, Icarus and Jeanne d’Arc.


Following the path of the old masters, Kreuder utilizes body gestures to signify the concept. But while Kreuder's themes differ, two patina colors dominate her statues constituting the essence of her art: Yellowish brown for bronze and greenish blue for the verdigris, (green of Greece).


Kreuder’s figures, even when solo, are not isolated objects in space, for by the symbolic simulation of the oxidized copper, they are interacting with invisible environmental influences.