Biography
"CHRISTA LAYR is an unusual painteress. She masterly manages to change between sensitive abstraction and real images.
Her works are usually like fragments of memories. With ease she transforms all of her motives into
autonomous, metaphysical places. Her abstract world of images creates a parallel world with sensitive colouring of psychogenic landscapes.
Christa Layr is a thinking painteress. She searches for the spirit in art, the light-footed, always ready to fly.
Her pictures are streams of clear, visible forces." (Prof. M. Warlamis)
Born in Vienna, physiotherapy-education in Salzburg and Vienna – all her life Christa has been searching to find an expression for the marks of her life, like in the saying: „A picture can convey what words can’t.“
Besides numerous international Art-Trips she started her painting education 2005 with known artists (Akademie Geras; Kunstfabrik Wien) and shows her pictures frequently in exhibitions in Paris, Cannes, Florence, Dubai, Houston, Milan, Rome, Barcelona and Austria.
Nietzsche wrote: „One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.“ – Christa wants to make the viewer of her pictures feel that dancing star, to awaken feelings in the form of a memory, a longing for harmony and protection.
„I limit myself to the essential but never take away the poetry.“
