With essays by Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek and Petra Giloy-Hirtz
Hirmer Publishers, Munich 2020
German/English, 128 pages, 70 color illustrations, 22,6 x 26 cm, hardcover
ISBN 978-3-7774-3098-0
The German-Swedish artist Ann Wolff is a pioneer of the studio glass movement in Europe. Born in Lübeck in 1937, she has achieved international fame for her sculptures which mainly use the material glass, but she has always drawn as well. This volume now presents a collection based on a selection of sixty hitherto unpublished drawings from the 1980s. The works in pencil on paper are about a female figure, in reflections and doublings, sometimes surreal and whimsical in connection with animals and intermediate beings, sometimes with man or child: dream worlds, images of the subconscious, often inspired by fairy tales. As female self-explorations, these images unfold their narrative potential in the social milieu of the time, which is characterized by feminist movements and the discourse on the relationship between the sexes.
Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek, Petra Giloy-Hirtz
Ann Wolff – Early Drawings
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With essays by Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek and Petra Giloy-Hirtz
Hirmer Publishers, Munich 2020
German/English, 128 pages, 70 color illustrations, 22,6 x 26 cm, hardcover
ISBN 978-3-7774-3098-0
The German-Swedish artist Ann Wolff is a pioneer of the studio glass movement in Europe. Born in Lübeck in 1937, she has achieved international fame for her sculptures which mainly use the material glass, but she has always drawn as well. This volume now presents a collection based on a selection of sixty hitherto unpublished drawings from the 1980s. The works in pencil on paper are about a female figure, in reflections and doublings, sometimes surreal and whimsical in connection with animals and intermediate beings, sometimes with man or child: dream worlds, images of the subconscious, often inspired by fairy tales. As female self-explorations, these images unfold their narrative potential in the social milieu of the time, which is characterized by feminist movements and the discourse on the relationship between the sexes.