Liebeskraft

About the artist

As one of Hungary’s most important artists, Lajos Barta fled the communist regime in his home country in 1965. He lived and worked in Bahnhof Rolandseck until 1967. He remained connected to the artists’ railway station his whole life long. Some of his works from this period are in the collection of the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, and his 1985 sculpture Love Power also has its place in the Riverside Sculpture Park.
Strongly influenced by Hans (Jean) Arp’s form-language, he created this large bronze sculpture, in which organic and abstract forms connect with each other, and masculine and feminine aspects, activity and passivity merge together. Love Power was installed in front of the Peace Museum Bridge at Remagen in 1985 and has been in its possession ever since. A few months before his death, Lajos Barta was able to witness the  installation of his last large-scale sculpture.

Lajos Barta born 1899 in Budapest, Hungary – died 1986 in Cologne