Colorful fine art giclée print "Loreley IX" by Bettina Breitkopf, reproduction on 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.