Elisabeth Wild Explained

Birth Place:Vienna, Austria
Birth Date:6 February 1922
Children:Vivian Suter

Elisabeth Wild (6 February 1922 – 12 February 2020) was an Austrian collage artist.

Early life and education

Born in Europe, Wild emigrated to Argentina with her parents in Franz and Stefanie Pollack in 1938.[1] Wild studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and drawing at the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Buenos Aires.[1] In Buenos Aires, she worked as a textile designer, and later married a textile factory owner August Wild.[2] In 1962 she and her husband sold their company and moved the family to Basel.[3] [4] In 2007 she moved to Guatemala to live with Vivian Suter, her daughter, in a former coffee plantation next to Lake Atitlán.

Career

Wild exhibited with her daughter Vivian Suter in several two-person shows, including at the Mistake Room in Los Angeles in 2015, Proyectos Ultravioleta in 2016, Karma International in Los Angeles in 2017, and The Power Plant in Toronto in 2018.[5] In 2018 she exhibited at the Carbon 12 gallery in Dubai.[6]

In 2017 she exhibited side-by-side with Suter at Documenta 14, in an exhibition curated by Adam Szymczyk.

She died at her home in Guatemala in 2020, aged 98.[7]

Legacy

Rosalind Nashashibi's 2017 film Vivian’s Garden depicts the relationship of Wild and her artist daughter Vivian Suter.[8] [9]

In 2020 Wild's cover design for the London Underground's pocket Tube map was published.[10]

Her work is included in the Kontakt Collection and in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.[11]

The book Elisabeth Wild: Fantasías, documenting Wild's collage work, was edited by Adam Szymczyk and published by MIT Press in 2021.[12]

The retrospective Elisabeth Wild. Imagination Factory, held at Mumok in Vienna, Austria in 2023 and 2024 was the first exhibition to show works from all creative periods of the artist.[13]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Durón . Maximilíano . Elisabeth Wild, Maker of Intimate, Disorienting, Colorful Collages Who Came to Prominence Late in Life, Is Dead at 98 . ARTnews.com . 13 February 2020.
  2. Web site: Elisabeth Wild (1922–2020) . www.artforum.com.
  3. Web site: Family Trees: Elisabeth Wild and Vivian Suter Frieze . Frieze . en.
  4. Web site: Elisabeth Wild 1922–2020 – Feature – Kontakt Collection . kontakt-collection.org . en.
  5. Web site: Vivian Suter with Elisabeth Wild "La Canícula" at The Power Plant, Toronto • . Mousse Magazine . it-IT . 8 December 2018.
  6. Web site: The 97-year-old artist who fled the Nazis brings her work to Dubai . The National.
  7. Web site: Collage artist Elisabeth Wild dies in Guatemala, aged 98 . the Guardian . en . 12 February 2020.
  8. Web site: 'Vivian's Garden', Rosalind Nashashibi, 2017 . Tate.
  9. Web site: Fullerton . Elizabeth . Vivian Suter's Painting-Based Installations Register the Volatility of Nature . ARTnews.com . 25 February 2020.
  10. Web site: Fantasías . Art on the Underground . en.
  11. Web site: Wild . Elisabeth . Untitled . The Art Institute of Chicago . en.
  12. Web site: Press . The MIT . Elisabeth Wild The MIT Press . mitpress.mit.edu . en.
  13. Web site: Elisabeth Wild. Imagination Factory . Mumok.

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