Successful artist from Russia no longer comes to her paintings in Moscow

Created: 09/29/2022, 12:00 p.m

By: Andrea Weber

"It's very sad what's happening right now": The successful artist Ljubov Belych comes from Russia and has lived in Ebenhausen since 1996.

© Andrea Weber

The painter Ljubov Belych shows her new works in Geretsried.

They were created after an odyssey that the Russian-born artist has been through.

Geretsried – The portrait and landscape painter Ljubov Belych has had an odyssey.

Born in Russia, she traveled to her hometown of Kostroma to see her sick mother in early February.

Then came the attack on Ukraine, and their return flight was cancelled.

In April she took a detour from Moscow to St. Petersburg by train, then took an eight-hour bus ride to Helsinki and from there took a direct flight to Munich.

It was not until May that she began to paint again in the studio in Ebenhausen.

Geretsried: Painter Ljubov Belych from Russia exhibits on Elbestrasse

Spring awakens in the Isar valley on her partly large-format oil paintings.

Marigolds bloom on the pools left over from the meltwater.

The course of the Isar shimmers through the forest clearing in the morning sun.

The central theme is flowers, trees and mountains of their adopted home in the Isar valley.

She is a master of naturalistic painting with a touch of expressionistic freedom and a special talent for the light and moods of nature in the cycle of the seasons.

From Thursday, Belych will be exhibiting under the title "Inspiration" in the gallery of Albrecht Widmann and Kenneth Barlow on Elbestrasse.

Belych is a successful artist nationwide and especially in her native Russia.

Usually her paintings can be seen annually at major museum exhibitions in Moscow, in Maykop in the North Caucasus and in Tula in central Russia.

She has an apartment with a storage room in Moscow.

"A lot of my pictures are now stored there," she says.

The artist does not know when she will be able to see them again.

She takes the situation seriously.

"It's very sad what's happening right now."

Artist from Russia moved to Germany because of love

Belych was born in 1961 in Kostroma, north of Moscow.

She studied at the Art Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in St. Petersburg.

In Soviet times, the academy was considered the best educational institution for artists.

After that she lived and worked in Moscow.

In 1991 she was invited to an exhibition in the Loisachhalle with a delegation of Russian artists.

That's how she met her current husband, with whom the artist has lived in Ebenhausen since 1996.

Belych loves nature and country life.

She often paints studies on site.

"I love spring when nature awakens and in summer the sea and lakes," she says.

She has the gift of creating light moods with brush and paint - the twilight, the wafting layers of air, the twilight in the evening or the glittering of the sun on the water surfaces.

In her painted pictures, the stillness of lakes, the rippling of the river Isar or the thundering surf at the sea can almost be heard.

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The "Inspiration" exhibition in the gallery at Elbestraße 27a in Geretsried will open on Thursday, September 29 at 7 p.m. and will run until October 16.

It is open on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and on weekdays by prior arrangement by telephone on 0 81 71/2 38 47 15 or 01 62/7 34 43 68.

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