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Maria Lassnig
Artist's Name: Maria Lassnig
Preferred medium: painting
birth year: 1919
Nationality: AT
City: Vienna

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Maria Lassnig, the grande dame of Austrian art, is one of the most significant and innovative painters of contemporary art. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, she spent several stays in Paris and New York, where they are from 1970 to 1972 at the School of Visual Arts Animationsfilm studied. As 1980 she returned to Vienna, she became the first woman in the German-speaking professor of painting at the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts, in the same year, she attended the Venice Biennale in part. 1982 and 1997 she was at the Documenta in Kassel shown. Maria Lassnig's art includes not only paintings but also sculptures, cartoons, and a great graphic work: her drawings she held long under lock and published it until 1997 in "The spring is the sister of the brush ', edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. For her life's work was received several awards, including the Great Austrian State Prize 1988, the Roswitha Haftmann Prize of the City of Zurich and the Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen, 2002, the Max Beckmann Prize of the City of Frankfurt 2004 and 2005 the Austrian Medal for Science and the Arts. (Source: Hauser & Wirth, Zurich)

important exhibitions from Maria Lassnig

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Maria Lassnig. Im Möglichkeitsspiegel. Museum Ludwig Köln DE 14.03.2009
Maria Lassnig Serpentine Gallery London GB 25.04.2008
Maria Lassnig Das neunte Jahrzehnt Wien AT 13.02.2009
10,000 Lives Gwangju Biennale Gwangju KR 03.09.2010
8th Gwangju Biennale 2010 Gwangju Biennale Gwangju KR 09.11.2010
SITE Santa Fe 8th Biennial Site Santa Fe Santa Fe US 20.06.2010
Maria Lassnig - DIE KUNST, DIE MACHT MICH IMMER JÜNGER Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München DE 26.02.2010
Maria Lassnig - body. fiction. nature Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus Klosterneuburg AT 20.04.2005
Maria Lassnig - Verschiedene Arten zu sein Das Städel Frankfurt DE 22.07.2004
Maria Lassnig CAC - Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati US 27.09.2008

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Galleries representing
Maria Lassnig:

Barbara Gross Galerie
Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman Galerie
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
Hauser & Wirth
Hauser & Wirth New York
Hauser & Wirth Piccadilly
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Zwirner & Wirth

Collections representing
Maria Lassnig

Deutsche Bank Collection
Frauenmuseum Bonn
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig GfZK
Kunsthalle Bern
Kunsthaus Bregenz
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
Leopold Museum
Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg
Museum der Moderne Salzburg Rupertinum
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
Museum Liaunig
Museum Moderner Kunst - Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK
Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten
Museum Morsbroich
Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum
Oberes Belvedere
Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus
Strabag Kunstforum