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Maria Lassnig

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Maria Lassnig

KERBER
Edited with text by Brigitte Hausmann. Text by Jenny Graser, Stefanie Heinzl.

Surveying the career of an artist known for her painterly and painstaking self-analyses

Hbk, 10.25 x 10.75 in. / 96 pgs / 51 color. | 5/23/2023 | In stock
$45.00


Maria Lassnig: Letters to Hans Ulrich Obrist

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Peter Pakesch, Hans Werner Poschauko. Text by Maria Lassnig, Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Maria Lassnig on painting and living, in previously unpublished letters to the celebrated curator

Pbk, 8 x 10.75 in. / 296 pgs / 245 color. | 8/18/2020 | Out of stock
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Maria Lassnig: The Future Is Invented with Fragments from the Past

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Edited with text by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Peter Pakesch, Denys Zacharopoulos. Foreword by Peter Pakesch. Text by Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat, Ingrid Rowland, Elisabeth Schlebrügge, Amy Sillman.

This book documents the last exhibition project that Austrian painter Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) was able to plan personally with the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Flexi, 8.5 x 9.5 in. / 132 pgs / 50 color. | 9/26/2017 | Out of stock
$39.95


Maria Lassnig: Works, Diaries & Writings

KOENIG BOOKS
Text by Silvia Eiblmayr, Maria Lassnig, Laurence Rassel.

Pbk, 8 x 9.5 in. / 248 pgs / 72 color / 23 bw. | 7/28/2015 | Out of stock
$55.00


      

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Maria Lassnig: The Location of Pictures

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Edited by Günther Holler-Schuster, Peter Pakesch. Text by Gottfried Boehm, Silvia Eiblmayr, Oswald Wiener, Peter Pakesch, Günther Holler-Schuster.

Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 200 pgs / 80 color / 20 bw. | 9/30/2013 | Not available
$47.50


Maria Lassnig: In the Mirror of Possibilities

HATJE CANTZ
Edited by Julia Friedrich. Text by Elisabeth Bronfen, Julia Friedrich, Oswald Wiener.

Clth, 8.5 x 9.75 in. / 248 pgs / 76 color / 31 bw. | 9/30/2009 | Not available
$60.00


Maria Lassnig

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Text by Julia Peyton-Jones. Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Clth, 8.75 x 10 in. / 94 pgs / 112 color. | 9/1/2008 | Not available
$58.00


FROM THE BLOG



Major Exhibition of Austrian Artist Maria Lassnig’s Work Opens at MoMA PS1 This Sunday, March 9th

This weekend, an astonishing exhibition of Austrian painter Maria Lassnig's self-portraiture will be on view at MoMA PS1 in Queens. ARTBOOK @ MoMA PS1 has rare copies of Lassnig's 'The Location of Pictures.' Our own Aliyah Taylor contributes a post.
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Maria LassnigMaria Lassnig

Published by Kerber.
Edited with text by Brigitte Hausmann. Text by Jenny Graser, Stefanie Heinzl.

Austrian artist Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) was known for her depictions of physical perceptions, which she called “body-awareness pictures,” as well as her self-portraiture and later forays into film and sculpture. This volume accompanies an exhibition in Berlin showcasing 40 works from different phases of the artist’s career.



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Catalog: SPRING 2023 p. 140   

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Maria Lassnig: Letters to Hans Ulrich ObristMaria Lassnig: Letters to Hans Ulrich Obrist

Living with Art Stops One Wilting!

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Peter Pakesch, Hans Werner Poschauko. Text by Maria Lassnig, Hans Ulrich Obrist.

The Austrian painter Maria Lassnig (1919-2014) and the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) had a steady correspondence spanning 20 years, during which time they discussed art, literature and their exhibition and book projects together.

Published for the first time, Lassnig’s handwritten letters provide an insight into her reflections on art and her existence as an artist, into their heights, depths and intricacies. Lassnig allowed Obrist not only to partake in her thoughts on painting or her polemics on photography, but also in her everyday life between the urban art world and her remote studio in the Austrian countryside.

The book includes numerous reproductions of works by Lassnig, as well as of the letters and postcards to Obrist.



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Walther König, Köln

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Paperback, 8 x 10.75 in. / 296 pgs / 245 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2020 p. 137   

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Woman Power: Maria Lassnig in New York 1968–1980Woman Power: Maria Lassnig in New York 1968–1980

Published by Petzel.
Edited by Janine Latham. Text by Elisabeth Bronfen.

In 1968 at age 49, the painter Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) moved from her residence in Paris to New York City to be in, as she called it, “the country of strong women.” Although well known in her native Austria, Lassnig was virtually unheard of in the States and for the next 12 years she lived in relative anonymity, renting walk-ups in the Lower East Side and SoHo. New York offered Lassnig a liberation of sorts from the male-dominated art scene of Europe: it gave her the opportunity to be an artist, not simply a female artist.

This book brings together works and archival material from her time in New York from 1968 to 1980, including films that Lassnig created in collaboration with the Women/Artists/Filmmakers, Inc. group.



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Petzel

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Hardcover, 8 x 10.5 in. / 82 pgs / 49 color / 19 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 125   

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Maria Lassnig: The Future Is Invented with Fragments from the PastMaria Lassnig: The Future Is Invented with Fragments from the Past

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited with text by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Peter Pakesch, Denys Zacharopoulos. Foreword by Peter Pakesch. Text by Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat, Ingrid Rowland, Elisabeth Schlebrügge, Amy Sillman.

It gathers around 50 works—paintings and works on paper, especially watercolors—that deploy motifs from Greek mythology, also expressing characteristics typical of her work: the awareness of the body, the painterly rendering of the inner and outer world, as well as animal portraits and landscapes. The Future Is Invented with Fragments from the Past includes contributions from leading scholars and artists discussing her unique visual idiom.



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Walther König, Köln

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Flexi, 8.5 x 9.5 in. / 132 pgs / 50 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 125   

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Maria Lassnig: Works, Diaries & WritingsMaria Lassnig: Works, Diaries & Writings

Published by Koenig Books.
Text by Silvia Eiblmayr, Maria Lassnig, Laurence Rassel.

Focusing on Maria Lassnig's (1919-2014) elaborations of the self-portrait and her exploration of her personal relations with the object, the animal and the machine, Works, Diaries & Writings includes work made by the artist from 1942 up until shortly before her death in 2014 at age 94.
As an artist, Lassnig was preoccupied with a relentless self-questioning that she continued throughout her life. Her painting aimed at "body awareness," an effort to represent on canvas how her body felt to her from the inside. Her self-portraits were frequently expressed in traumatic, surrealistic forms that merged the human figure with the animal and the machine. This new volume presents 45 of Lassnig's paintings alongside a selection of her watercolors, videos, letters, photographs, drawings, writings (including from the artist's diaries) and archival material.

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Koenig Books

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Paperback, 8 x 9.5 in. / 248 pgs / 72 color / 23 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2015 p. 121   

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Maria Lassnig: The Location of PicturesMaria Lassnig: The Location of Pictures

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited by Günther Holler-Schuster, Peter Pakesch. Text by Gottfried Boehm, Silvia Eiblmayr, Oswald Wiener, Peter Pakesch, Günther Holler-Schuster.

The Location of Pictures follows the career of Vienna-based painter Maria Lassnig (born 1919), long famed for her colorful explorations of the human figure. It includes previously unseen examples from all periods, tracing the developments in her painting between abstract expressionism and recent figuration.

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Walther König, Köln

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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 200 pgs / 80 color / 20 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2013 p. 185   

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Maria Lassnig: In the Mirror of PossibilitiesMaria Lassnig: In the Mirror of Possibilities

Watercolors and Drawings from 1947 to the Present

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Edited by Julia Friedrich. Text by Elisabeth Bronfen, Julia Friedrich, Oswald Wiener.

There are few enough female artists who have maintained an international reputation across the entire second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, but fortunately the Austrian painter Maria Lassnig (born 1919) is one of them. Lassnig has painted and drawn for over 60 years, and the freshness of her work only increases as she continues to give body (or bodies) to her emotions--sometimes seriously, sometimes humorously--on canvas and on paper. In the Mirror of Possibilities focuses on her very personal drawings and watercolors, from early drawings of the 1940s and her "body sensation drawings," to the New York animations and the more painterly forms found in her watercolors of the 1980s and 1990s. But the bulk of this volume is devoted to Lassnig's most recent works, in which the artist combines simple pencil drawing with strangely lurid backgrounds, advancing her admirable will to reconstrue the body by means of art.

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

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Clth, 8.5 x 9.75 in. / 248 pgs / 76 color / 31 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2009 p. 87   

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Maria LassnigMaria Lassnig

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Text by Julia Peyton-Jones. Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Born in 1919, Viennese artist Maria Lassnig--who coined the phrase "body-awareness painting"--uses bold forms and strong colors to create portraits and semi-figurative abstractions. This volume, with texts by Robert Storr, Jennifer Higgie and Paul McCarthy, includes a selection of sensational, fresh and vibrant works from the last three years.

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Walther König, Köln

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Clth, 8.75 x 10 in. / 94 pgs / 112 color.

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Catalog: MID WINTER 2008

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STATUS: Out of print | 11/28/2010

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