Martha Jungwirth
Untitled, 2017
Sagaponack
Martha Jungwirth was born in Vienna in 1940 and still lives and works there today. She was discovered in 1961 while still a student and won several prizes for her artwork; however, after marrying a museum director in 1969, the art world was hesitant to embrace her. After his death in 1990, she was “rediscovered.”
Over five decades, Jungwirth has created an extraordinary body of work moving on the edge of convention. While her media of oil and water-color might seem traditional, the artist underlies her paintings with packing paper and cardboard, and washes off her watercolors as well as applying them.
The artist Martha Jungwirth is receiving her first solo presentation at the ALBERTINA Museum. The exhibition spans a temporal arc from early masterpieces to her most recent output. Since her beginnings as an artist, Jungwirth has valued paper as a medium for paintings that include numerous large-format watercolours.