Maria Lassnig’s “Kopfheiten.” Self-Analysis in Words and Images
Maria Lassnig’s “Kopfheiten.” Self-Analysis in Words and Images

Summary/Abstract: The article captures the autobiographical work of Maria Lassnig – her self-portraits, diaries, poems – in the context of trends present in Austrian art in the years 1950–1980. The artist's self-analysis reveals through a variety of forms such diverse inspirations as Vienna Actionism, avant-garde and experimental literature of Vienna – Mayröcker, Wiener – to the philosophy of Leiblichkeit by Hermann Schmitz. A characteristic feature of Lassnig's self-analysis is not only transmediality and related aspects of the translatability of an individual body language into figurative and abstract forms, colours and words, but also a clear distance from the approach to corporality in terms of gender.

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