Artworks from Elvira Bach

Elvira Bach is a German artist who was born in Neuenhain in the Taunus region in 1951 and has been one of the representatives of the "Junge Wilde" movement since the early 1980s. This style is characterized in particular by a carefree and life-affirming style of painting. It is based on the French Fauves, which attracted particular attention in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century.
In her painting, the contemporary painter deals primarily with social images of women and their roles. Her intensely colorful and expressive depictions of strong and sensual female figures are characterized by an implicit conflict between orderly forms and barely restrained joie de vivre, close to the borderline of irregularity and assiduousness.
She was able to show her large-format, colorful and incredibly powerful portraits of women at the documenta VII in Kassel at the age of 29. The works were very well received and were subsequently presented and exhibited in art associations and museums.
Elvira Bach was not spared in her eventful life and drew much peace and strength from her memories. From 1967 to 1970, she studied at the Staatliche Glasfachschule in Hadamar before moving to Berlin in 1972 to study at the Hochschule der Künste. There she became a master student of Hann Trier, who had already made a name for himself as an informal painter.