Modern Art - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2016 - 100 Euro Cent

Born in Vienna in 1940, Martha Jungwirth studied from 1956 to 1963 at the University of Applied Arts. In the sixties, the loner in the Austrian art scene was able to record her first successes. In her well-trodden path, her work often focuses on the socio-cultural environment of women - for example, she created her well-known "Indesit series" for the renowned "documenta 6" in Kassel: in it, drawings of household appliances that looked like x-rays were shown; For the first time, Martha Jungwirth has been internationally recognized with this series. But not only then, even later, her everyday objects and situations became the source of inspiration again and again; her works are always reflections on reality and not on its reproduction.   Martha Jungwirth loves color experiments, her works are always energetic - whether she paints watercolors that show her focus, or works with oil or ink. She likes to let the viewer see traces of the picturesque. She paints the color with vigor and likes to paint and often in nature - yes, nature is literally transformed into color and pure painting, as expert Florian Steininger once described. The director of the Leopold Museum in Vienna, Hans-Peter Wipplinger, who dedicated Jungwirth's first major retrospective at the Kunsthalle Krems, put it this way: "Jungwirth's characteristic compositions, which are distinguished by their eruptive gestural style and their powerful coloring, are poetic like dramatic notations of experiences, moods and memories, which leave room for numerous associations due to their high abstraction content. "