The following is excerpted from Maria Lassnig: The Biography written by Natalie Lettner and translated by Jeff Crowder, published in October by Hauser and Wirth Publishers, the Maria Lassnig ...

Maria Lassnig’s figurative paintings, whose jewel-like and pastel hues belie the heavy psychological states of her self-portraits and subject matter, were late to gain the attention they deserved from ...

Maria Lassnig, “Du oder Ich” (2005). Oil on canvas, 203,5 x 155,5 cm (photo courtesy Maria Lassnig Foundation) In this century, the Museum of Modern Art has presented a series of exhibitions of women ...

BERLIN — In a delightful scene in Anja Salomonowitz’s hybrid feature film, Sleeping with a Tiger (2024), about the life of Austrian artist Maria Lassnig, the artist, who’d left Austria for New York in ...

Maria Lassnig was an Austrian painter known for her psychologically expressive self-portraits, often rendered with a combination of turquoise greens and saturated magentas. Lassnig’s work explores ...