Born in Vienna in 1927, the artist studied at the Vienna Academy with R. C. Andersen from 1945 and A. P. Gütersloh from 1949, learning fresco painting with the latter's assistant Erich Huber. She graduated in 1951 from Andersen's master class and became a member of the Vienna Secession, where she exhibited on several occasions.
Lieselott Beschorner's art developed in groups of works that seem clearly distinct in style and content and yet still present a coherent picture of how they evolved and are connected. Each phase of her work was brought about and inspired by her subjective state of mind and her life at the time.
In the early 1960s she developed a technique combining collage and painting known as 'layered pictures'. These gave her new expressive possibilities for both formal renewal and an associative approach to landscapes and their moods. At this time she was already an established artist with her own personally tinged avant-garde orientation. From 1972 the grotesque and bizarre played an increasingly important role in her art. Irony, humour and the perilous unfathomable nature of human existence formed the basic tone of her work thereafter. In recent years Beschorner created collages from calendars. She transformed the calendar images into new structures using collage and also overpainting them, thus placing them in new contexts.
In 2008 the artist gave an extremely generous gift from her oeuvre to the City of Vienna. These artworks have since been worked through and catalogued.
The exhibition at MUSA is the first complete presentation to the public of this highly original artistic cosmos, which moves between early abstraction and teeming grotesques.
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