Albert-Lasard, Lou

The fusion of poetry and painting is a hallmark of the life and work of the German-French artist Lou Albert-Lasard. The portrait on display depicts her daughter, Ingo de Croux-Albert (1911–1997), who was also an accomplished painter. As artists of Jewish heritage, they share the fate of many writers and poets during the Nazi era. During World War I, the then-married Albert-Lasard met and fell in love with the German-Hungarian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. From their initial encounters starting in 1914, a lifelong friendship blossomed between the two. In addition to her work as a painter, Albert-Lasard was also a writer and translated Rilke’s poetry into French. After traveling to various countries, including Morocco and Spain, Lou and her daughter Ingo were interned at the Gurs camp from May to August 1940. There, Lou created portraits of fellow prisoners and captured scenes of the monotonous daily life in the camp, such as women gathered in the wash barracks. The portrait of her now-adult daughter was painted after the war. Back in Paris, the mother-daughter duo traveled in a caravan, channeling their travel experiences into landscape paintings that reflect the impressions of their journeys.

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