Austrian contemporary artist. Martha Jungwirth, born January 15, 1940 in Vienna, is an Austrian painter, between figuration and abstraction.
Biography
From 1956 to 1963, Martha Jungwirth studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in the class of Carl Unger. In 1968, she formed the group Wirklichkeiten (Realities) with Franz Ringel, Peter Pongratz, Wolfgang Herzig, Robert Zeppel-Sperl and Kurt Kocherscheidt. The group claims realistic and socially involved painting1.
In 1969, she married art historian and museum director Alfred Schmeller. In the 1970s, Christa Hauer-Fruhmann exhibited the first drawings of Martha Jungwirth2 in the gallery im Griechenbeisl.
From 1967 to 1977, she taught at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna1.
She combines figurative painting and abstraction. She creates drawings, watercolors and oil paintings on various media. She paints self-portraits, everyday objects, animals, landscapes. In 1974 and 1975, she stayed in New York. On her return, she produced large-format drawings representing ordinary household objects, symbols of the oppression of women3. In 1977, she presented her drawings of household appliances resembling X-rays at documenta 6 in Kassel4.
Martha Jungwirth always starts from a real situation: cities, people, landscapes, objects, animals. She starts her creative process from a reality. She never reconstructs the image. She develops a reflection based on the real situation4.
