ROLF LUKASCHEWSKI
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Upcoming exhibition : November 25 2008 - January 10 2009

Rolf Lukaschewski, who was born in Schleswig (Germany) in 1947, started his career in Germany after completing his education in the fine arts with excellence at the Art School of Cologne. His swift entry into the art world was accompanied by expositions in Paris as well as the purchases of several of his works by the F.N.A.C. in Paris.

During the following years he exhibited his work through galleries in New York, London, Berlin, Zurich, Paris and Frankfurt. He established himself in the art world as one of the biggest German post-war expressionists, working in the tradition of Otto Dix and Max Beckmann, two men who are renowned for their achievements in the expressionist movement.

It is in 1993 that he moves to Montreux, located on the shore of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Through his portraits of celebrities such as James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich and great political and social leaders such as Dr. Helmut Kohl, Michael Gorbatshov and other celebrities he distinguished himself as an outstanding artist of his time and earned great recognition. He strived to incorporate the key personalities of our contemporary world in his art work and convey them onto his canvases, to witness some world events of the present and the past.

Today, he ventures to unite elements of the Pop Art movement as well as expressionism in order to create a new style which he calls positive expressionism. Lukaschewski is now generally considered to be the great successor to the German Expressionists. Over the years, he has indeed built up a collection of works of exceptional potency and quality. At present, his work reflects the flashy society we live in. With bright colours and expressive strokes he creates paintings that are at once valuable and enriching to our eyes and the environment they are presented in. In 2007 he looks back at 60 years of a full life and over 30 years of contributing to the world of art.