Pétra Werlé
France
• 1956
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Biography
Daughter of a sailor, Pétra Werlé was born in Strasbourg in 1956 and spent her early years between Basel and Rotterdam on the family boat. At the age of twenty, she began to carve her first figures in breadcrumbs and has since devoted herself to this unique art. In 1997, she decided to settle in the Paris region. If the whole of his work has bread as main material, it nevertheless offers itself a parenthesis with "Histoire (s) naturelle (s)" and "De la nature des choses" made up of elements such as butterflies, beetles. , bird feathers, shells, dried flowers and mosses ...
Closed parenthesis, since 2010 she continues tirelessly and passionately to work only bread to show new worlds.
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The year of birth of the artist is: 1956