Agnes Muthspiel

Agnes Muthspiel (born February 8, 1914 in Salzburg ; † May 3, 1966 there ) was a Salzburg painter .

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Agnes Muthspiel was the eldest daughter of Heinrich and Agnes Gahbauer and attended elementary school in Salzburg and then the academic high school . In 1938 she married the judge Dr. Hans Muthspiel, who died as a soldier in Russia in 1941. After the war, stimulated by her acquaintance with artists such as Max Peiffer Watenphul , Caspar Neher and Herbert Breiter , she began to paint as an autodidact and from 1950 onwards she enjoyed increasing international success. After her first late expressionist work, she increasingly freed herself from aesthetic prejudices and thus became a naive painter in the best sense of the word; The short-term group of the Salzburg naive goes back to this.

Her circle of friends also included the sculptor Toni Schneider-Manzell , the composers Gottfried von Eine and Carl Orff , the poets Werner Bergengruen and Gerhard Amanshauser, but also Bert Brecht and the painters Eduard Bäumer and Paul Flora .

Memorial plaque for Agnes Muthspiel on her home on the Abts Tower on Mönchsberg .

In 1966 the artist was honored with the Theodor Körner Prize . A memorial plaque on her former home (Mönchsberg 9) also commemorates the painter.

“Naive, when applied to her, means the unbroken, undeveloped, direct way with which she translated her life experience into painting, from her everyday view of things. Her everyday life was intense. ... Agnes Muthspiel is the painter of a declining world, which she did not, however, look after melancholy or romantically. She even reached down, was native there. "

- Gerhard Amanshauser

In Salzburg there is also a street named after Agnes Muthspiel.

Works

Agnes Muthspiel mainly painted oil paintings, but also watercolors, drawings and prints. She particularly loved to paint pictures of her hometown including its towers and gardens, but in Rome, which the staunch Catholic held in high esteem, and on the beloved Italian island of Porza, she painted a lot.

literature

• Rosina König-Hollerwöger: Agnes Muthspiel. Special ways of Austrian post-war painting. An inventory. Master's thesis at the Faculty of Culture and Social Sciences at the University of Salzburg, 2007.

Web links

Commons : Agnes Muthspiel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Agnes Muthspiel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography at KunstNET
• Biography at art4public