Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
Tate Liverpool: 11 April – 13 August 2006
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
After the Ball 1949
© Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust
Celebrating the hundredth anniversary of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky’s birth, this exhibition brings the work of this acclaimed, yet relatively unknown, artist to a much wider audience than ever before. Fleeing the Nazis in 1938 she left Vienna with her mother, finally settling in England where she lived and worked in a community of gifted exiled artists.
The exhibition presents around 70 paintings and a number of drawings, exploring the transition from her hard-edged realist style of the twenties to the poetic realism of her later work. ...
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