Research Catalog

Title

Priska von Martin / herausgegeben von Christine Litz und Arie Hartog.

Publication

• Köln : Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Litz, Christine
• Hartog, Arie
• Martin, Priska von, 1912-
• Museum für Neue Kunst (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany), host institution
• Gerhard Marcks-Haus, host institution

Description

279 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 26 cm

Summary

For Priska von Martin, the catalyst in life was the desire to capture humanity as form. She tried to delineate artistically what constitutes human existence, including isolation, dysfunctionality, pain, but also harmony, wholeness and beauty. She captured the essence of human existence in animal figures as well as women's bodies and torsos. Her art was aimed at the corporeal, the visibly physical injury, dislocation, displacement as well as the spiritual, the invisible, the intangible emotions, instincts, conditions. Who was Priska von Martin? What hopes did she place in bequeathing her estate to her native Freiburg, so far away from her place of work in Munich, on the vague chance of being viewed and understood independently? If she was focusing on this (deferred) outside view, why did she scarcely document her oeuvre? Which parts of her life story did she want to leave in the dark? How do we treat the information we have about this artist, who is described by most of her companions as a tactful person? To what extent can we infer, from the (almost utter) absence of views on political events, social contexts and her sphere of operation, that she didn't engage with any of them? Exhibition: Museum für Neue Kunst, Städtische Museen Freiburg, Germany (04.04. - 13.09.2020) / Gerhard-Marcks-Haus Bremen, Germany (12.09.2020 - 21.11.2021).

Subject

• Martin, Priska von, 1912- > Exhibitions
• Martin, Priska von, 1912-

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalog of exhibitions held at Museum für Neue Kunst, Städtische Museen Freiburg, Germany, April 4-September 13, 2020 and Gerhard-Marcks-Haus Bremen, Germany, September 12, 2020-November 21, 2021.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Parallel text in German and English.

Call Number

JQF 21-1076

ISBN

• 9783864423192
• 3864423198

OCLC

1227311370

Title

Priska von Martin / herausgegeben von Christine Litz und Arie Hartog.

Publisher

Köln : Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Parallel text in German and English.

Added Author

Litz, Christine, editor.

Hartog, Arie, editor.

Martin, Priska von, 1912- Works. Selections.

Museum für Neue Kunst (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany), host institution.

Gerhard Marcks-Haus, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 21-1076