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"Melancholy" oil/canvas, 1997 80 x 70 cm |
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"Melancholy" oil/canvas, 1997 80 x 70 cm |
Marie Temnitschka
Contacts:
Seghaier/International Art Services A-1020 Vienna
Glockengasse 9, Austrias
Office Tel. (1) 212 55 72
Gallery/Fax (1) 212 55 73
Marie Temnitschka was born in 1961.
She studied at the University of Applied Arts/Vienna (Prof. Carl Auboeck),
followed by vocational training as a hospital nurse.
Started painting in 1989.
Held classes for life-drawing in 1992/93.
In the first period of her professional work as a painter, Temnitschka's
interest concentrated on the human body. Later on, she developed symbolic ideas
and in the years following 1992 she went on to forms of abstraction.
In the center of her work stands the human being. All its psychic conditions and
all its moods are projected to the pictures' surface. In some of the paintings
the written word plays an important role, yet these words are difficult to read.
The artist's "handwriting" is a means of transport for her personal
feelings: excitement, fear, joy, composure - so she opens her soul's landscape
to the visitor.
Even in the works of her latest period tending very much towards abstraction,
the human being is present: as a shadow, as a symbol. Intensive light breaks
through the dark surface, giving the paintings a touch of hope. Some of the
pictures may be seen as an invitation to meditate - others may even
"shock" the visitor and so be a challenge to him.
Maria Temnitschka participated in numerous exhibitions in Austria, and in 1995
even to exhibitions in the Ukraine republic, in Brussels (gallery Mots &
Tableaux) and in New York (Gallery Multi Media Arts/Broadway).
Some of her paintings have been purchased by the Austrian Ministry of Science,
Research and Arts.
Fuente: http://artliaison.org/seghaier/temnitschka.html
