Ninetta Sombart: Life And Art

by Volker Harlan

Ninetta Sombart was born in 1925 and grew up in Berlin in the house of the renowned economist and social scientist Werner Sombart. In 1947, she married and moved to America, where she had four children. To earn a living she began to paint—and to overwhelming public acclaim. In 1962, she returned to Europe, where she managed an advertising department in Basel. Since 1978, she has lived in Arlesheim, Switzerland, and devotes all her time to painting. With ninety full-page reproductions, this book is the only available overview of Ninetta Sombart’s life and work as a painter. Her paintings are widely known through single reproductions, but are shown here for the first time in a comprehensive collection. Sombart brings the human spirit to the foreground, and her style is unmistakably different from any other Christian art. The largest group of her paintings is based on Gospel images, in which she attempts to show Jesus as the Son of God rather than Jesus the man. She has developed a unique color technique that stunningly expresses the esoteric side of Christ. Includes more than ninety full-page color reproductions and forty-five additional photographs.

Hardcover

First published October 15, 2004