The Austrian painter Maria Lassnig spent most of the second half of the 20th century being overlooked. Dealers and curators couldn’t see how to fit her work, which consisted entirely of self-portraits, into any of the usual groupings. She was at different times both figurative and linear, realist and allusive, full and spare. The only thing that stayed the same was her subject matter, which was always herself. Over a 70-year career Lassnig morphed her everywoman’s body, with its high color, stocky limbs and... (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/may/14/maria-lassnig-under-the-skin Maria Lassnig (8 Sept. 1919 – 6 May 2014); Austrian artist known for her self portraits and her theory of "body awareness". First female artist to win the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1988 and awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 2005. Lived and taught in Vienna from 1980 until her death. In the 1950s, Lassnig was part of the Hundsgruppe (Dog Pack) group, which also included Arnulf Rainer, Ernst Fuchs, Anton Lehmden, Arik Brauer and Wolfgang Hollegha. The works of the group were influenced by abstract expressionism and action painting.... Though Lassnig began her career painting abstract works, she always created self portraits. One of her earliest was Expressive Self-Portrait (1945), which she painted only weeks after fleeing Vienna. In 1948 Lassnig coined the term "body consciousness" to describe her practice. In this style, Lassnig only depicted the parts of her body that she actually felt as she worked. As such, many of her self portraits depict figures that are missing body parts or use unnatural colors. By the 1960s Lassnig turned away from abstract painting altogether and began to focus more wholly on the human body and psyche. Since then she created hundreds of self portrait... ...Well into her 60s, Lassnig began to receive widespread recognition, especially in Europe, only late in her career.... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Lassnig) undefined

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