Lieselott Beschorner

Lieselott Beschorner is a remarkable individual. Now 93 years old, the artist began her career in 1945 amid the ruins of World War II. Over more than seven decades, Beschorner has created a universe that stands alone, with herself at its center. A bewildering variety of media and styles captivates visitors to her home. Nudes, abstractions, fantastical faces as “grotesqueries” and “emotionalities,” collages, textile figures, clay heads and masks, relief images, designed cardboard busts—Beschorner turns everything she comes across into art. She cannot help herself. Found objects and collectibles are also part of this wondrous universe.

She was one of the first women to become a member of the Vienna Secession in 1951. This was followed by considerable exhibition successes, before things quietened down for Beschorner in the 1980s. This slumber was interrupted in 2011 by an exhibition at the Wien Museum MUSA. However, unlike her fellow students from Arik Brauer to Arnulf Rainer, there was no exhibition to mark the artist's 90th birthday. The Landesgalerie Niederösterreich honors the artist's work with a focus on clay works and ceramics, while keeping an eye on the artist's oeuvre as a whole.

An exhibition by the Landesgalerie Niederösterreich in cooperation with the Wien Museum.

Curators: Bertold Ecker and Christian Bauer