Greta Free

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Greta Freist ( July 27, 1904 in Weikersdorf am Steinfelde - September 18, 1993 in Paris ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Freist attended the Fröhlich painting school in Vienna and studied from 1924–1930 at the Academy of Fine Arts with Rudolf Bacher and Rudolf Jettmar . She worked as a freelance painter, graphic artist, restorer, ceramist and fabric painter and worked together with her fellow student and life partner Gottfried Goebel . The two lived with Heimito von Doderer in a studio on Hartäckerstrasse in Döbling , which also became a literary meeting place. Among other things, Elias Canetti and Otto Basil frequented there .

In 1936 (or 1937) she emigrated with Goebel to Paris, where the first exhibition took place in the Salon d'Automne . The emigration to France was not primarily politically motivated. During the war years her partner Goebel was interned and Freist arrested several times for black market trafficking. After the war, the French section of the International Art Club was founded in her studio in 1950 . The artist lived through many styles, so her early work is characterized by a magically colored realism. From around 1949 to 1967 she painted abstractly. After an inspiring trip to Spain, she turned back to a figurative, fantastic style of painting, combined with a time-critical statement: She wanted to express the dehumanization of the world. From 1988 until her death she returned to abstraction. Freist died in Paris in 1993.

Exhibitions (selection)

The City of Vienna's cultural office dedicated a solo exhibition to Freist in 1961, and in 1991 the Lower Austrian State Museum showed a large number of the artist's works.

  • 2019: City of Women. Women artists in Vienna from 1900 to 1938 , Belvedere (group exhibition)
  • 2018: Art Controversies. Styrian Positions 1945–1967 , Neue Galerie Graz (group exhibition)
  • 2007: Vienna-Paris. Van Gogh, Cézanne and Austria's Modernism 1880–1960 , Belvedere
  • 2007: Between the Wars - Austrian Artists 1918–1938 , Leopold Museum (group exhibition)
  • 2006: body, face & soul. Images of women from the 16th to the 21st century , Leopold Museum (group exhibition)
  • 2006: 3 generations - 3 regions. Artists from Vienna - Lower Austria - Burgenland , Schlaining Castle
  • 2005: The new Austria . The exhibition on the anniversary of the State Treaty in 1955/2005, Belvedere
  • 2005: Ars pigendi . Masterpieces of Austrian painting since 1900 from the collection of the Neue Galerie Graz, Neue Galerie Graz
  • 2003: Group exhibition of mimosa, roses and autumn crops. Artists. Positions 1945 to today , Kunsthalle Krems
  • 1999: The Century of Women , Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien
  • 1992: put on paper. Viennese art since 1945 , museum on demand , Vienna, watercolor
  • 1991: Moved into the light , museum on demand, Vienna, painting
  • 1991: Greta Freist. Painting and graphics , Blue-Yellow Gallery, Lower Austrian State Museum (solo exhibition), painting
  • 1991: Greta Freist. Works on paper from 1949–1955 , gallery at the Albertina (solo exhibition), Vienna
  • 1988: Pic ups , Galerie Steinek (group exhibition), Vienna
  • 1976: Solo exhibition at Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna
  • 1972: Exhibition of artist group Der Kreis , Künstlerhaus Vienna
  • 1961: Solo exhibition of the City of Vienna Cultural Office
  • 1959: Group exhibition at the Inge Ahlers Gallery, Mannheim
  • 1956: Group exhibition Cross Section at the Vienna Secession
  • numerous exhibitions in Paris
  • before the Second World War: exhibitions of the Hagenbund

swell

  • Greta Freist. Collection Oesterreichische Nationalbank, accessed on March 1, 2019 .
  • Greta Freist. In: basis wien. Retrieved March 1, 2019 .

Web links

  • Greta Freist. Gallery at the Albertina, accessed on March 1, 2019 (examples of works).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Free, Greta. In: Ilse Korotin (ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 1: A-H. Böhlau, Wien / Köln / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 897 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ a b c Greta Freist. 1904 Weikersdorf - 1993 Paris. In: Austrian Gallery Belvedere. Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Greta Freist. Kunsthandel Widder, accessed on March 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Free, Greta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Free, Grete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Weikersdorf am Steinfelde
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1993
Place of death Paris