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Lazlo Emmerich was born near Hanover,
Germany in 1940. His father was killed in the
Second World War, so his family moved to Delft,
Netherlands, where he lived and was schooled
from the age of five.
His talent for painting was discovered at an
early age. As a result, in his teens, he was able to
embark on an apprenticeship with the noted
Flemish painter Otto Van’t Sant.
Despite the many distractions in his early
adulthood; writing Beat poetry in the 1950’s,
fomenting revolution as a left wing radical in the
1960’s and flirting with large scale steel structure
in the 1970’s, a mature and personal style of
painting eventually emerged. Subtlety, stark
imagery, earthy colors, and distressed paint
surfaces began to mark his work and continue
to this day.
On the meaning of individual works of art he is
silent, saying only, “We are all, in an existential
sense, alone, but we can find purity and
beauty and even enrichment in that aloneness
no matter how bleak or desolate it may seem.”
Mr. Emmerich divides his time between his
winter studio in Bandung, Indonesia and his
summer home near Amsterdam.
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