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Maria Lassnig

Maria Lassnig (1919 - 2014) was active/lived in New York / Austria.  Maria Lassnig is known for Abstract self portriature, figurative art.

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Maria Lassnig, Painter of Self From the Inside Out, Dies at 94

By RANDY KENNEDY
MAY 9, 2014
  
Maria Lassnig, an Austrian painter whose fierce devotion to self-portraiture — in lacerating, darkly funny, often grotesque ways — led her through decades of obscurity to a celebrated late-flowering career, died on Tuesday in Vienna. She was 94.

Her death was announced by Hauser & Wirth, the gallery that represented her for many years along with the Friedrich Petzel Gallery. She is the subject of a survey, through May 25, at MoMA PS1 in Queens, spanning more than 50 years of her painting.

Ms. Lassnig was unusual among late-20th century figurative artists in working not from photography or observation but from what she called "body awareness," a Surrealist-influenced method of painting only her mental perception of herself and her feelings.

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