Kathrin Landa (b. 1980) is a graduate of the prestigious Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in
Leipzig and devotes her art entirely to portrait painting. Her highly acclaimed works live from
their expressive objectivity. This catalogue with an introduction by Michael C. Maurer
showcases the broad spectrum of her work to date from commissioned pieces to artistic analyses
of people at their emotional limits. In his insightful observations the author Christoph Kolk
traces the poetry of her paintings. Stern journalist and couples therapist Nina Poelchau
examines Landa's double portraits and finds that they reveal existential patterns of human
relationships. Lastly writer artist and curator Martin Oswald explains the creation of a
portrait from the perspective of the sitter. This richly illustrated publication is more than
just a monograph-it is also a work about the very essence of portraiture.
