About the artwork:
Midnight at Høgabu depicts her sleeping child in a mountain lodge in western Norway, where the faint glow of a snow-covered cabin in the distance evokes the nostalgia of warmth and shelter. In Morild, a Danish word meaning “glowing sea,” a lone swimmer drifts through a scintillating body of water, suspended between darkness and radiance. Beverin opens onto a candlelit window view of the Swiss Alps, merging a domestic interior with the grandeur of the mountains beyond. Through these intimate, layered paintings, Rathgeb transforms quiet moments into meditations on place and the attentive care embedded in observation.
About the artist:
Heidrun Rathgeb lives and works near Lake Constance in southwestern Germany, where the surrounding light and landscape deeply inform her intimate egg tempera paintings, luminous and patiently layered. Working from plein air sketches that she calls her “daily epiphanies,” she translates lived moments (never photographs) into layers of color and light that evoke both connection and devotion. Influenced by early Sienese painters as well as modern artists like Winifred Nicholson and Paula Modersohn-Becker, Rathgeb approaches painting as an act of attention and care, drawing inspiration from her family, home, and long hikes through the Alps, Norway, and Scotland.
Rathgeb received her MFA in London at the Slade School of Fine Art (1996-99), after attending the Byam Shaw School of Art (1993-96). She has held recent solo exhibitions at Sea View, Los Angeles, US (2025); Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE (2025), John Martin Gallery, London, UK (2024). Group exhibitions include Bo Lee & Workman Gallery, Bruton, UK (2025); Setareh, Berlin, DE (2025); Gallery Elsa Meunier, Paris, FR (2024); Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BR (2024); MePaintsMe, New York, NY (2023); Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin, DE (2022); and the Royal Academy, London, UK (2022, 2023, 2025).
Specs:
In this series, Heidrun Rathgeb’s paintings dwell on moments of stillness, light, and interior reflection through delicate semi-translucent layers of egg tempera.More
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