Maria Lassnig (1919-2014) is one of the most important women artists in art after 1960. Over
her decades-long career she produced an extensive and singular oeuvre in the fields of
painting drawing and graphic reproductions with intermittent excursions into (animation)
film and sculpture. Visualizations of physical perceptions so-called body awareness pictures
form the center of her work. Her painstaking self-analyses are also expressed in numerous
self-portraits.Helmut Klewan accompanied Maria Lassnig as a gallerist for over three decades.
This led to the development of a rich inventory of oil paintings and works on paper in addition
to one sculpture. Forty works from various creative phases were selected for the exhibition in
Berlin.
