Elisabeth Wild
Elisabeth Wild | |
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| Born | February 6, 1922 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | February 12, 2020 (aged 98) |
Elisabeth Wild (6 February 1922 – 12 February 2020) was an Austrian collage artist.
Early life and education[]
Born in Europe, Wild emigrated to Argentina with her parents in Franz and Stefanie Pollack in 1938.[1] Wild studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and drawing at the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Buenos Aires.[1] In Buenos Aires, she worked as a textile designer, and later married a textile factory owner August Wild.[2][3] In 1962 she and her husband sold their company and moved the family to Basel.[4][5] In 2007 she moved to Guatemala to live with Vivian Suter, her daughter, in a former coffee plantation next to Lake Atitlán.[2][3]
Career[]
Wild exhibited with her daughter Vivian Suter in several two-person shows, including at the Mistake Room in Los Angeles in 2015, Proyectos Ultravioleta in 2016, Karma International in Los Angeles in 2017, and the The Power Plant in Toronto in 2018.[1][6] In 2 018 she exhibited at the Carbon 12 gallery in Dubai.[7]
In 2017 she exhibited sid-by-side with Suter at Documenta 14, in an exhibition curated by Adam Szymczyk.[2]
She died at her home in Guatemala in 2020, aged 98.[2]
Legacy[]
Rosalind Nashashibi's 2017 film Vivian’s Garden depicts the relationship of Wild and her artist daughter Vivian Suter.[8][9]
In 2020 wild's cover design for the London Underground’s pocket Tube map was published.[10]
Her work is included in the Kontakt Collection[5] and in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.[11]
The book Elisabeth Wild: Fantasías, documenting Wild's collage work, was edited by Adam Szymczyk and published by MIT Press in 2021.[12]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Durón, Maximilíano (13 February 2020). "Elisabeth Wild, Maker of Intimate, Disorienting, Colorful Collages Who Came to Prominence Late in Life, Is Dead at 98". ARTnews.com.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Collage artist Elisabeth Wild dies in Guatemala, aged 98". the Guardian. 12 February 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Elisabeth Wild (1922–2020)". www.artforum.com.
- ^ "Family Trees: Elisabeth Wild and Vivian Suter | Frieze". Frieze.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Elisabeth Wild 1922–2020 – Feature – Kontakt Collection". kontakt-collection.org.
- ^ "Vivian Suter with Elisabeth Wild "La Canícula" at The Power Plant, Toronto •". Mousse Magazine (in Italian). 8 December 2018.
- ^ "The 97-year-old artist who fled the Nazis brings her work to Dubai". The National.
- ^ "'Vivian's Garden', Rosalind Nashashibi, 2017". Tate.
- ^ Fullerton, Elizabeth (25 February 2020). "Vivian Suter's Painting-Based Installations Register the Volatility of Nature". ARTnews.com.
- ^ "Fantasías". Art on the Underground.
- ^ Wild, Elisabeth. "Untitled". The Art Institute of Chicago.
- ^ Press, The MIT. "Elisabeth Wild | The MIT Press". mitpress.mit.edu.
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- 1922 births
- 2020 deaths
- 20th-century Austrian women artists
- 21st-century Austrian women artists
- Artists from Vienna
- Women collage artists