Rosa Loy
Illustration — Rosa Loy - Blätterrauschen (Rust of Leaves), Lithography, "At the centre of her paintings is always the figure of the female double and the doppelgänger." • Illustration — Exhibition in Liberec, Czech Republic (2024), together with Neo Rauch Rosa Loy (born 1958) is a German Illustrator and painter. She belongs to the "New Leipzig School".
Also recorded as Sibelle Rauch
Rosa Loy
Rosa Loy · Bodo Kamp · CC BY-SA 3.0
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- 1958 · Zwickau.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker · artist
- Languages
- German
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Rosa Loy was born in 1958 in Zwickau. She graduated in horticulture from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1981 and worked in this field until 1985. She then moved to Leipzig to study illustration at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst with Rolf Felix Müller, graduating in 1990. In 1993, she obtained a master's degree in painting and illustration with Rolf Münzner. Since 1993, she has been working independently. Rosa Loy lives with her husband and artist Neo Rauch in Markkleeberg near Leipzig and was one of the first artists in the Baumwollspinnerei, a former cotton mill in Leipzig. Neo Rauch and Rosa Loy designed the scenic design for Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin at the Bayreuth Festival in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2025.
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Rosa Loy (born 1958) is recorded as a painter. The birth of Rosa Loy is recorded in 1958 in Zwickau.
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1958
Rosa Loy was born on 1 January 1958.
Loy's work in permanent collections of museums
Loy's work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, United States; Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, United States; Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea] Art and Museum Centre Sinkka, Kerava, Finland; and Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany, among others.
Rosa Loy, Fünf Perlen (Lithographie)
Rosa Loy · Bodo Kamp
Michael Triegel (re), Neo Rauch, Rosa Loy
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- 1.Neo Rauch, Rosa Loy.
- 2.Rosa Loy - Artists- McClain Gallery. mcclaingallery.com.
- 3.Rosa Loy Biography - Rosa Loy on Artnet. artnet.com.
- 4.Platform Art. Contemporary Artists. Rosa Loy. platformart.com.
- 5.Rosa Loy. solocontemporary.com.
- 6.Rosa Loy. galeriekleindienst.de.
- 7.Rosa Loy - Broadly. kohngallery.com. 2016-04-30.
- 8.Rosa Loy - Spinnerei. spinnerei.de.
- 9.Rosa Loy, Set Designer.
- 10.Loy - Michael Kohn Gallery. kohngallery.com.
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