Adolphe Lechtenberg - Pulsar

“Pulsar” feels like a vibrating color space in which warm reds, pinks, and oranges condense into a pulsating core. The soft transitions and the flowing overlap recall techniques of abstract expressionism, where color itself becomes an emotional event. By concentrating the darker tones in the center, a nearly magnetic depth effect arises that holds the gaze and at the same time moves it. This interplay of spontaneity and compositional clarity gives the work remarkable intensity.
The painting was created with very fluid paint, so any traces of color on the back are intentionally part of the painting process and unavoidable.
The painting is signed and dated on the back.
The work is shipped as a roll.

Adolphe Lechtenberg, born 1952.
Lives in Düsseldorf and Mexico.
After art lessons at the gymnasium with Franz-Joseph van der Grinten and Johannes Stüttgen, studied at the State Academy of Arts Düsseldorf under professors Fritz Schwegler, Joseph Beuys and Erwin Heerich
1978 appointed Meisterschüler (master student) of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
Lechtenberg’s works are represented internationally in numerous private and public collections. Born 1952 in Gelsenkirchen, lives in Düsseldorf
1978 stipend from the Poensgen Foundation / three-month stay in Italy
1992 stipend International Painting Weeks Piran, Slovenia
since 2006 long-term stays in Mexico
2012 stipend of the Jakob Eschweiler Foundation, Cologne
Stipend from the German Foreign Office for a six-month work stay in Mexico

Selected solo exhibitions:
1982 Painting, Kunstverein Bochum at Haus Kemnade, Bochum
1983 Painting and Drawing, Art History Institute of the University of Bonn
Municipal Gallery Düsseldorf
1984 Galerie Janine Mautsch, Cologne
Planetary Wanderings, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
1985 St. Markus Nied, Frankfurt/Main
Staying, Going, Kunstverein Oerlinghausen
and
Mönchehaus Museum for Modern Art, Goslar
Galerie Janine Mautsch, Cologne
1986 Half-people, Quarter-people, Galerie Symbol, Cologne
1987 Galerie Annelie Brusten, Wuppertal
Municipal Gallery Schloss Oberhausen
Kunststation Frankfurt/Main
Galerie J. Friedrich, Dortmund
Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf
1988 Galerie Annelie Brusten, Wuppertal
Galerie Janine Mautsch, Cologne
Galerie Am Kleinen Markt, Mannheim
Galerie WaschSalon, Frankfurt/Main
1990 Galerie Gudrun Boncz, Stuttgart
Galerie Annelie Brusten, Wuppertal
1991 Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf
1993 Art-Ort, Ingeborg-Drewitz-Gesamtschule Gladbeck
Art-Ort, Maria-Sibylla-Merian-Gesamtschule Bochum
Art-Ort, Museum Bochum
Municipal Gallery Kaarst
Galerie Annelie Brusten, Wuppertal
1994 Galerie Ali Jasim, Düsseldorf
1996 Multimedia Galerie Jürgen Hoog, Cologne
1997 Galerie Ali Jasim, Düsseldorf
1998 inner memory – Ortsfragmente, Catholic University Community, Wuppertal
1998/99 Kreuzpunkte, Satellites, Verstecke, TZR-Galerie Bochum
1999 Painting and Drawing, Kunstverein Brühl
Rheinstein, Düsseldorf
2000 Special Symbols. Without Borders, ARKA Kulturwerkstatt/Zeche Zollverein Essen
2000/01 Tints, Extents, Skins, TZR-Galerie Bochum
2001 Galerie Ali Jasim, Düsseldorf
Galerie am Luftsalon and Galerie im Wintergarten, Gardens of the Senses near Gehren/Niederlausitz
Openings in Shadow Zones, Floor 20, Düsseldorf
2003 Masks, Mirrors and Weavings, Galerie Lorch + Seidel, Berlin
2004 Discoveries and Flow of Colors, Galerie Hannelore Golkar in Lindner Hotel, Wuppertal
2005 tagrotblanksilbernlichtrein, Hermann Fischer Haus, Neuss-Norf
2007 Galerie Alfred Boettger, Bonn
2008 Drawings; Centro Cultural y Social Santo Tomás Moro, Coyoacán, México D.F., Mexico
2009 Galerie Kümmel, Lüdenscheid
Picture, Drawing, Collage, Galerie Alfred Boettger, Bonn
2011 Drawings, Objects, Installations, Galerie Alfred Boettger, Bonn
2013 New Works on Canvas and Amate Paper, Galerie Alfred Böttger, Bonn
Canvas and Amate, Exhibition Space in the Luther Church, Düsseldorf
2016 PIEL - MURAL - COLOR - ESPACIO, Foro R-38, Mexico City
Rooms of Color, Blickwinkel-Raum für Kunst Graf-Bicher, Frechen
Materia Prima – Color and Space; KSI Bad Honnef
2017 Research Colloquium on Normative Foundations of Society (FnG), Bonn
Espacios del Color, Galería NM Contemporáneo, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Skin-Wall-Color-Space, City Church Leverkusen (as part of the Leverkusen Night of Art)
2017/18 Tlapalamatl - New Works on Amate Paper, Alfred Boettger Bookshop, Bonn
2018 Presentation of the edition "lass liegen", by Ulrike Almut Sandig and Adolphe Lechtenberg.
Alfred Boettger Bookshop, Bonn
2018/19 Verse and Tlapalli, New Works on Natural Fiber and Three-Dimensional Images, Gallery and Bookshop Alfred Boettger, Bonn
2021 Gallery of the Bookshop Alfred Böttger, Bonn
2024 Images, Suitberga - Office for Culture Indulgence, Düsseldorf
Itineraries, Salon des Beaux Arts, Stuttgart
2024/25 Academia - A Lifetime of Learning, Galerie Alfred Böttger, Bonn

Group exhibitions (selection):
1976 “With, beside, against..., Joseph Beuys and his students”, Kunstverein Frankfurt; 1982 “0211”, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf; 1985 Faux Mouvement, Metz; 1987 “Ucronia”, Turin; 1988 Kampnagelfabrik Hamburg; 1989 “BonAngeles”, Representation of NRW in Bonn and Santa Monica Museum of Art in Los Angeles/USA; Grand Palais Paris; Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen; 1991 Museo de Bellas Artes Santander, Spain; 1992 Ludwig Forum Aachen; 1994 Galeria Aspekty, Warsaw; Arqueología del Espíritu, Galería L (Sala Talia), Havana/Cuba; Arqueología del Espíritu, Goethe-Institut Düsseldorf; 1996 Kemal Atatürk Kulturzentrum Istanbul, Turkey; 2000 Bilgi University Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey; 2008 Imagen Nómada – Part 1, Goethe – Institut Düsseldorf; Souvenir-Transfert imaginaire, Center of Contemporary Art Pyramida, Haifa/Israel; 2010 Lebensläufe - from here and back; Kunstverein im Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen; “In the Field of the Expanded Concept of Art - Gelsenkircheners about Joseph Beuys”, City Center, Gelsenkirchen; 2011 Kunstverein Frechen; 2012 Conjuntos; Espacio Monograma, Mexico City; 2014 Six Degrees of Separation, Casa John R. Thompson, Mexico City; Encounters, Schloss Sent Miklosch, Tschinadijowo, Ukraine; 2015 Mysteries – Images for the Dark Season, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen 2015 Plástica y Sentimientos, Galerie 23# Stevermüer, Velbert-Langenberg; Calavera - Día de Muertos. Objects and Photographs on the Day of the Dead in Mexico, Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf; 2016 From Now On, Kunstzentrum Lutherkirche, Düsseldorf; 2018 Art & Passion - 50 Years of the Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen, Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen in the Museum Gelsenkirchen; KLIO - Opening Exhibition Kunstverein Linz, Stadthalle Linz am Rhein; 2019 Wide Angle, Blickwinkel-Raum für Kunst Graf-Bicher, Frechen; Enjambre contra Cromático, La Pared Arte Contemporáneo, Pereira, Colombia; 2020 Swarm against color, Adolphe Lechtenberg u. Nuria Montiel, La Pared, Mexico City; 2022/2023 From Here Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen; 2023 Travesías Cromaticas, Orchid House, Galerie NM Contemporáneo Carmen Rosa Vega, Mexico City; 2024 Galerie le 27, Céret, France