Maodo Lo’s life has several chapters beyond basketball, and it has also influenced the way in which he has conducted his sports career. The ALBA Berlin player is one of the biggest names in basketball in Germany after establishing himself as one of the leaders of the Berlin team and the national team, with which he stood out at Eurobasket 2022. He was born in a house surrounded by art signed by his own mother, the famous artist Elvira Bachwhose paintings come to be valued at 80,000 euros.
The influence of art
Just for the simple fact of being born in dynamic Berlin makes Maodo Lo a person who grew up in a city that breathes art and culture. But if we add to that that Lo is the son of the famous painting Elvira Bach, the influence of art in his life is inevitable. Maodo Lo was born in 1992 in the neighborhood of Charlottenburgwhich coincides in being the origin of the club of which he currently wears his shirt, ALBA Berlin.
He reminds him that in his house his mother’s works were protagonists. The artist became famous for the Junge Wilde art movement, and her postmodernist paintings of her featuring women. Bach used a studio in the neighborhood of Kreuzberg to carry out their works and also serve as inspiration to other new artists.
“Art plays an important role in my life and has influenced me a lot as a person,” Maodo Lo said in an interview with Creme Guides. “Life in an artist’s house is different, artists work and lead a less conventional life,” added the player in the same interview.
In fact, Maodo Lo He currently lives in what was his mother’s creation studio, which has moved to another on the same corner, and works by Elvira Bach herself hang on the walls of what is the home of the ALBA Berlin player. The son himself has also influenced the art of her parent, as basketball has also crept into the colorful paintings of the famous artist.
self made in basketball
in that house of Charlottenburg There was little sport in the air, but the two children of the couple formed by the painter Elvira Bach and the Senegalese Alioune Lô found their passion in basketball. And it was first The mineeight years older than Maodo, the one who discovered the world of the sport of the basket, and the one who would encourage his brother to change the soccer ball for the orange one.
Once Maodo Lo tried basketball, he didn’t change sides. The ALBA Berlin player discovered his passion for basketball and wanted to enroll in DBV Charlottenburg, connected to the yellow set. Being in the Berlin team, he saw that he had no room to grow in German basketball and went looking for a university in the United States. He went to the columbia universityin New York, where he continued with a dynamic life in a city that breathes culture like Berlin.
Maodo Lo with the Bayern shirt against Gran Canaria. Source: Euroleague
After his good years in the NCAA and the United States and being undrafted in 2016, he returned to his country in the ranks of the Brose Bamberg. Maodo Lo would return with a basketball with a marked American influence, different from what was played in the BBL, but that would lead him to be successful in the historic Bamberg. And it is that Maodo Lo’s style also drinks from a basketball played on the streetand make the point guard have his own skills and a marked and original style.
From Bamberg he went to Munich, but in this German city he did not have the continuity or the expected success, although it would not be the only cause of his departure to Berlin, but a tragedy that would mark his family life after it.
marked by tragedy
In the summer of 2019, Maodo Lo’s life was shaken by the unexpected passing of his beloved brother Lamine in an accident at just 34 years old. This fact would make Lo value family life much more, and it was what confirmed his need to return to the city where he was born. For this reason, and in search of an improvement in his basketball, Maodo Lo signed for ALBA Berlin.
Lo, ice cold
Maodo’s clutch plays down the stretch guide Germany W at home!#EuroBasket x #BringTheNoise pic.twitter.com/oav1LzJNWu— FIBA EuroBasket (@EuroBasket) September 4, 2022
The player would also see how in the midst of a pandemic, in 2020, his parents decided to lead separate lives, although in Berlin itself. The decision to change Munich for Berlin seems to have been the right one in Maodo Lo’s career, which has taken a successful course with several league titles in which he has starred with ALBA Berlin.
His brother’s name written in his handwriting on the sole of his sneakers seems bring luck to Maodo Lo’s careerwho shone in the past Eurobasket 2022. Lo, however, was left with the feeling that Germany could do more than win a bronze medal in a championship in which they played at home and in which Maodo Lo was one of the team leaders.
He is an ambitious player, he is in no hurry to go to the NBA although he admits that it is a dream. He prefers to continue vibrating in the streets of his dynamic Berlin, in a studio decorated with the art of his mother, whom he has close to him, just like his father. Family and artistic life in Berlin seem to suit Maodo Lo wella different and original player, who is one of the main names in German basketball.
