Colorful Fine Art Giclée "Loreley IX" by Bettina Breitkopf, reproduction on a stretcher frame

Why is the Rhine so beautiful? That's the question that has preoccupied Bettina Breitkopf for many years. A question she answers most wonderfully and in vibrant colors with her paintings: because the Rhine, with its landmarks, its historical sights, and also its myths and legends, provides an inexhaustible source of ideas and motifs. Breitkopf's paintings thus stand in a long tradition of artworks that have explored the theme of the Rhine. What is special about her work is that the self-taught artist approaches the most German of all rivers with colorful, pop-art compositions – she shows the Rhine as a vibrant cultural landscape. A declaration of love for her homeland.

"Loreley IX": "The fairest maiden sits / There wondrously above, / Her golden jewelry glitters, / She combs her golden hair," Heinrich Heine wrote of her. Bettina Breitkopf transforms the often-sung beauty into a flower-power pop-art queen in luminous colors.