Modern Art - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2003 - 55 Euro Cent

Kiki Kogelnik: "Prenez le temps d 'aimer" Kiki Kogelnik (1935 - 1997) is one of the most important Austrian artists after 1945. Her artistic career began in 1954 with the study of graphics and sculpture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. A year later she moved to the Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied painting with Albert Paris Gütersloh. Monsignor Otto Mauer made her first solo exhibition of abstract works in Vienna in 1961, integrated into the immediate vicinity of the Galerie nächst St. Stephan. Kiki Kogelnik has lived and worked in New York, Vienna and in her hometown Bleiburg since the beginning of the sixties. In her artistic work, Kiki Kogelnik adapted abstract forms of pop art and developed her own, distinctive imagery. In 1962, the first "portraits" of friends and fellow artists were cut out of wrapping paper. The paper cuts and silhouettes became the basic principle of her artistic oeuvre, which included paintings and graphics, sculptures and installations. In 1998, the Austrian Gallery Belvedere dedicated a comprehensive retrospective to her. (Kiki Kogelnik Foundation, Vienna - New York 2003)