Cover Hardcover
Size 464 Pages
Format 13,5 x 21,0
ISBN 978-3-7117-2130-3
First published 2022
»Maria paints«
Maria Lassnig, born in 1919 and raised by her mother and stepfather in rural Carinthia, shows her talent for drawing and painting from an early age. As she grows up, she briefly works as a school teacher during the war before enrolling at art college in Vienna. The art scene in Austria as well as internationally is dominated by men and Maria has to fight for recognition constantly. Over the course of time, she lives in Paris and New York but returns to Austria towards the end of her life where she is the first woman in a German-speaking country to receive a professorship.
An exceptional novel about an exceptional woman: Maria Lassnig, one of Austria’s most important artists.
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