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There exists a definite contrast between Barbara Trauth's
sculptures and her two-dimensional art. The paintings are of
strongly figurative nature, conveying the peaceful beauty of
children and nature. Her sculptures show a marked
expressionist tendency.
This endearingly joyful sculpture of children coming together in a round
dance to honor Our Lady holding high the Christ child illustrates one of the
many facets of Barbara Trauth's art. From lush landscapes to sculptures of
torn and twisted human existence, the artist seems to move with amazing
ease from the tantalizing questioning of Expressionist art to the lightness of
being as we find it in the variations on the Magnificat with its feminine
figures miming a heavenly ballet come to earth.
Reminiscent of some of the famous
German artists of the mid-twentieth
century, such as Kaethe Kollwitz, some of
Trauth's small sculptures illustrate how
much human beings find themselves torn
between heaven and earth, between the
dynamism of the spirit and the gravity of
worldly realities.
barbaratrauth@gmail.com
