Maria Lassnig.
Ways of Being
Until 1 December 2019
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The Albertina Museum is marking what would have been the hundredth birthday of Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) with a comprehensive look back upon her career, thus showing impressive key works and masterpieces by one of the most important woman artists of the 20th century.
Among the multitude of themes to which Maria Lassnig devoted herself over the course of her life (including self-portraits, science fiction, relationships with people, animals, and technology, and how we relate to violence and war), a dominant golden thread running throughout her oeuvre’s content is the act of rendering her body-consciousness visible. As early as the late 1940s, Lassnig placed her own body at the center of her work—long before physical feeling, body language, and gender relations became central themes of the international avant-garde. She thus marked an important turning point in the history of modern art whose echoes can still be heard today. It was humorously and seriously, wistfully and mercilessly that the artist placed her perceptions of her own self on the painting surface. In this, it was not what she saw, but what she felt became the image.
Exhibition organised by The Albertina Museum, Vienna in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
We thank the Wiener Städtischen Versicherungsverein for the support.
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Maria Lassnig: Potato press (Kartoffelpresse), 1989
Oil on canvas
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection © Maria Lassnig Foundation)
Maria Lassnig: Sleeping with a tiger (Mit einem Tiger schlafen), 1975
Oil on canvas
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – Permanent loan from the Österreichische Nationalbank © Maria Lassnig Foundation)
Maria Lassnig: Krebsangst (Krebsangst), 1979
Oil on canvas
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – Permanent loan, private collection © Maria Lassnig Foundation)
Maria Lassnig: Dicke Grüne, 1961
Öl auf Leinwand
(Maria Lassnig Foundation © Maria Lassnig Foundation)
Maria Lassnig: Du oder Ich, 2005
Öl auf Leinwand
(Private Collection. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Collection Services © Maria Lassnig Foundation)
© Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich
Maria Lassnig: Fotografie gegen Malerei, 2005
Öl auf Leinwand
(Ursula Hauser Collection, Switzerland © Maria Lassnig Foundation)
© Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich
Maria Lassnig: Selbstporträt als Tier, 1963
Öl auf Leinwand
(Maria Lassnig Foundation © Maria Lassnig Foundation)
© Roland Krauss
Maria Lassnig: Selbstporträt mit Sprechblase, 2006
Öl auf Leinwand
(Maria Lassnig Foundation © Maria Lassnig Foundation)
Maria Lassnig: Selbstporträt mit Stab, 1971
Öl auf Leinwand
(Maria Lassnig Foundation © Maria Lassnig Foundation)
Maria Lassnig: Woman Laokoon, 1976
Öl auf Leinwand
(Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum © Maria Lassnig Foudation)
© N. Lackner/UMJ
Maria Lassnig: Woman Power, 1979
Öl auf Leinwand
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna –The ESSL Collection © Maria Lassnig Foundation | Bildrecht, Wien, 2019)
© Graphisches Atelier Neumann, Vienna
Oil on canvas (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection © Maria Lassnig Foundation)
Oil on canvas (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – Permanent loan from the Österreichische Nationalbank © Maria Lassnig Foundation)
Oil on canvas (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – Permanent loan, private collection © Maria Lassnig Foundation)
Öl auf Leinwand (Maria Lassnig Foundation © Maria Lassnig Foundation)
Öl auf Leinwand (Private Collection. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Collection Services © Maria Lassnig Foundation)
© Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich
Öl auf Leinwand (Ursula Hauser Collection, Switzerland © Maria Lassnig Foundation)
© Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich
Öl auf Leinwand (Maria Lassnig Foundation © Maria Lassnig Foundation)
© Roland Krauss
Öl auf Leinwand (Maria Lassnig Foundation © Maria Lassnig Foundation)
Öl auf Leinwand (Maria Lassnig Foundation © Maria Lassnig Foundation)
Öl auf Leinwand (Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum © Maria Lassnig Foudation)
© N. Lackner/UMJ
Öl auf Leinwand (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna –The ESSL Collection © Maria Lassnig Foundation | Bildrecht, Wien, 2019)
© Graphisches Atelier Neumann, Vienna