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Birgit Jurgenssen

Birgit Jurgenssen (1949 - 2003) was active/lived in Austria.  Birgit Jurgenssen is known for Feminist themed sculpture, works on paper, phtography.

Born and educated in Vienna, Birgit Jürgenssen died prematurely at the age of fifty-four. Her artwork received scant attention during her lifetime; however, recent monographs by Gabriele Schor and Abigail Solomon-Godeau have begun to spread awareness of the depth and breadth of Jürgenssen’s artistic achievement.

Growing up in the era of über-expressionist Viennese Actionism and coming of age in a conservative, male-dominated Viennese art world, Jürgenssen developed an extraordinarily rich private studio practice that encompassed drawing, performance, photography, and sculpture.

Jürgenssen’s drawings from the late 1960s reach into psychedelic pop culture, with fluffy, Lorax-like trees and Yellow Submarine–style cartoon characters rendered in exquisite detail and color. In the early 1970s, she developed a surrealist trajectory that provoked further dreamlike vistas.

Issues of gender are apparent in Jürgenssen’s photographic works, sculptures, and drawings from ever   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2561 characters.]  Artist bio

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