Maria Lassnig surveys four decades of work by one of the most significant women artists of the post-1960 era, bringing together forty paintings, works on paper, and sculpture drawn from gallerist Helmut Klewan's personal collection.
About This Book
Maria Lassnig built her practice around a deceptively precise concept: the visualisation of physical sensation from within. Her so-called body-awareness pictures are not conventional self-portraiture but something stranger and more searching — attempts to render how the body feels rather than how it appears. This catalogue, published to accompany an exhibition in Berlin, draws on the collection of Helmut Klewan, who accompanied Lassnig as her gallerist for more than thirty years. The forty works selected span multiple creative phases, tracing the evolution of her painting, drawing, and graphic work, and illuminating the sustained self-analysis that defined her oeuvre. Bilingual texts in English and German make this accessible to an international readership.
Key Features
- 40 colour illustrations of paintings, works on paper, and sculpture
- Text by Brigitte Hausmann
- Works selected from the Helmut Klewan collection, spanning multiple creative phases
- Published by Kerber, 2014
What You'll Discover
- How Lassnig's body-awareness pictures transform interior physical perception into painted form — a methodology distinct from conventional figurative art
- The breadth of her practice across oil painting, drawing, graphic reproduction, animation film, and sculpture over a career spanning decades
- The arc of Lassnig's self-portraiture as a vehicle for painstaking self-analysis rather than representation
- The perspective of a long-term gallerist relationship: how Klewan's three decades alongside Lassnig shaped the depth and range of this particular collection
About the Author
Brigitte Hausmann contributed the texts for this bilingual catalogue. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: [Details available upon request]
- Dimensions: 170 x 260 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783735608710
- Publisher: Kerber
- Publication Date: 2014
Perfect For: Collectors and curators with an interest in post-war European painting, students of feminist art history, and practitioners drawn to the intersection of embodied experience and visual art.