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Details of object number: 86541
Title:12 Frauen oder 12 Monate (original title)
Number of parts:12
Object name:print
Collection:Ökonomat
Created by:Rindler-Trieb, Brigitte (artist)
Production date:1996 — 1997
Description:Purple hinged box with printed title page, the title glued to the front and spine, containing 12 woodcuts on laid paper, each with a cover sheet (6 black-and-white woodcuts and 6 color woodcuts). Editions are partly 6/7, partly 6/10. An explanatory text by Robert Poslusny is inserted on two A4 sheets at the front. All woodcuts are numbered, inscribed, and signed in pencil at the bottom: “TRIEB B. 97.” Inventory label affixed to the inside of the box on the left. Monthly titles:
-Sappho or January
-Gertrud Bodenwieser or February
-Danae or March (Ed. 6/7)
-Liubov Popova or April
-Maenade or May (Ed. 6/7)
-Scheherezade or June (Ed. 6/7)
-Frida Kahlo or July
-Ruth or August (Ed. 6/7)
-Clara Wieck Schumann or September
-Tamar or October (Ed. 6/7)
-Ophelia or November (Ed. 6/7)
-Trude Fleischmann or December
-Sappho or January
-Gertrud Bodenwieser or February
-Danae or March (Ed. 6/7)
-Liubov Popova or April
-Maenade or May (Ed. 6/7)
-Scheherezade or June (Ed. 6/7)
-Frida Kahlo or July
-Ruth or August (Ed. 6/7)
-Clara Wieck Schumann or September
-Tamar or October (Ed. 6/7)
-Ophelia or November (Ed. 6/7)
-Trude Fleischmann or December
Hist. crit. notes:[…] 12 women
The 12 women Brigitte Trieb has selected for her new folder range from the ancient poet Sappho to the photographer Trude Fleischmann. They are “strong” women, surrounded by myths and who have themselves become myths. Biblical and ancient figures alternate. Poetic figures appear alongside prominent female artists from a wide variety of art forms. Clara Wieck-Schumann and Frida Kahlo, for example, are juxtaposed with Shakespeare’s Ophelia and the Old Testament Tamar. The dancer Gertrud Bodenwieser is followed by Danae in her shower of gold. […] (Robert Poslusny, 1997)
The 12 women Brigitte Trieb has selected for her new folder range from the ancient poet Sappho to the photographer Trude Fleischmann. They are “strong” women, surrounded by myths and who have themselves become myths. Biblical and ancient figures alternate. Poetic figures appear alongside prominent female artists from a wide variety of art forms. Clara Wieck-Schumann and Frida Kahlo, for example, are juxtaposed with Shakespeare’s Ophelia and the Old Testament Tamar. The dancer Gertrud Bodenwieser is followed by Danae in her shower of gold. […] (Robert Poslusny, 1997)
Material:paper
Technique:gedruckt (Holzschnitt)
Dimensions:
- box height: 45 cm
box width: 35.5 cm
each passepartout height: 54.5 cm
each passepartout width: 44.5 cm
each framed height: 57.5 cm
each framed width: 47.5 cm
each framed depth: 3 cm
Physical description:Woodcut, black and white and in colour
Keyword:Figurative