487 - Kiki Kogelnik* (Graz 1935 - 1997 Vienna)

Kiki Kogelnik* (Graz 1935 - 1997 Vienna) Nullkupon-Pfandbrief, 1996 color screen printing/paper 41,5 x 30 cm signed Kiki Kogelnik, dated 96 numbered 15/200 SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 1000 - 2000 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 1000 Kiki Kogelnik was an Austrian-American painter, printmaker, sculptor, and object artist. She is considered one of the most important Austrian artists of the post-war era and a distinctive, internationally connected figure within the context of Pop Art. After studying at the Academy of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Kogelnik initially developed an abstract-informal style of painting that can be linked to the work of artists such as Sam Francis. She traveled to the USA for the first time in 1961; following a stay in California, she moved to New York in 1962. There, she moved within the circles of Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Rauschenberg, and James Rosenquist, without, however, defining herself exclusively as a Pop Art artist. Like Richard Hamilton—a pioneer of British Pop Art—Kogelnik drew upon elements of the contemporary world of consumerism and media, yet developed from them a distinctive visual language characterized by critical humor. Kogelnik’s work combines the vibrant colors, smooth surfaces, and direct visual impact of Pop Art with an exploration of technology, space travel, consumerism, the body, and gender roles. The 1960s saw the creation of her so-called "Hangings": life-sized body silhouettes cut from plastic and displayed on coat hangers like garments. Through these works, she addressed the human body as an interchangeable, media-influenced, and increasingly technologized phenomenon. Her fusion of Pop aesthetics, a critical perspective on the body, and female self-assertion also establishes a significant connection to artists such as Niki de Saint Phalle, Yayoi Kusama, and Carolee Schneemann, as well as the Austrian artists VALIE EXPORT, Maria Lassnig, Birgit Jürgenssen, and Renate Bertlmann. In her later work, Kogelnik increasingly turned her attention to ceramics, glass objects, and drawings. She died in Vienna on February 1, 1997. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights and platform fee. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° at the estimate), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer's premium and platform fee. This amounts to 13% for paintings, drawings, graphic works and sculptures and 20% for photographs and all other items. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.