Dina Larot - vendere e comprare opere
1942, Vienna (Austria)
Dina Larot is an Austrian painter who has primarily become well-known for her portraits of women.
Born in Vienna in 1942 into a family of architects from Graz, Maria Elisabeth Lebzelten started drawing at a young age. After leaving school, she studied painting at the University of Applied Arts in Graz under the direction of Rudolf Szyszkowitz. She attended the “Schule des Sehens” (School of Seeing) summer school in Salzburg in 1962, led by Oskar Kokoschka, who supported her artistic efforts and became a friend of hers. Once she had decided to become a freelance artist she took the pseudonym “Dina Larot”.
At the beginning, she preferred to paint landscapes, cities, still lifes and nudes. Larot displayed her work at numerous exhibitions, both in Austria and abroad, from 1968 onwards. Inspired by her prolific travel, her fascination for foreign cultures influenced her painterly work, and she studied Indology and Jewish Studies at the start of the 1980s.
Nowadays, Vienna is at the heart of her life and work: she is happy to hold artistic salons in her studio. Her daughter, Judith Schimany, is also a painter.
For her images, the artist primarily uses the following techniques: oil, watercolour, (charcoal) drawing and etching.
Throughout her life, the artist has focused on figurative painting: her preferred subjects are portraits of women and young girls, in which she stays true to her characteristic style of painting. The primary focus of her work, some of which is sensually or erotically charged, is on the desire for love and happiness, on the one hand, and on the dreams and illusions of young women, on the other. In 2015, Palais Palffy showed an overview of Dina Larot’s work from the past fifty years as part of a synopsis and film presentation. A monograph on the subject was published by Amalthea Verlag at the same time.
Dina Larot’s works have enjoyed success at Dorotheum auctions for many years. On 3 December 2014, her oil painting “Mädchenbildnis” from 1966 sold for € 1,000.