Frau
Woman
Rosemarie Trockel, Frau © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Foto: Kunstpalast - Horst Kolberg

Woman, 1983

ArtistRosemarie Trockel, Schwerte *1952
India ink, fineliner, gouache
Sheet dimensions26 × 20 cm
Status
on display, room 037
About the workA translucent yellow oval accentuates a woman’s face and part of her upper body. Is this luminous form a warmth-giving sun or a stylised egg yolk? Rosemarie Trockel, who initially studied anthropology, religious studies and mathematics before attending the Cologne Academy of Fine and Applied Arts from 1974 to 1978, often addresses concepts of femininity in her work and examines the function of symbols. In 1983, when this work was created, she received her first solo exhibition in a gallery. From 1998 to 2016 she was a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy.
AccessionGift Hanck Collection 2008
Provenance[...]; 18.05.1988 Wolfgang Hanck, Düsseldorf, erworben von der Galerie Monika Sprüth, Köln; 2008 erworben durch Schenkung von Wolfgang Hanck
Inventory numberHanck 41
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