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Female Cat and Male Cat

Kätzin und Katze
Female Cat and Male Cat
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Female Cat and Male Cat
Oswald Oberhuber, Kätzin und Katze, 1997, Mischtechnik auf ungrundierter Baumwolle, ungerahmt: 180,5 × 250,5 × 2 cm, Belvedere, Wien, Inv.-Nr. 11913
Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien
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  • Female Cat and Male Cat

  • Date1997
    • Artist Oswald Oberhuber (1931 Meran/ Merano – 2020 Wien)
  • Object typePainting
  • MediumMixed media on unprimed cotton
  • Dimensions
    ungerahmt: 180,5 × 250,5 × 2 cm
  • SignatureSign. rechts unten: Oberhuber
  • Inventory number11913
  • Location Belvedere 21
  • Credit LineSchenkung Christine König Galerie

  • Oswald Oberhuber is among the most important Austrian artists of his generation. Through his work as an exhibition curator, gallerist, designer, and rector of what is now the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, he also had a formative influence on the local art scene. His principle of permanent change, formulated as early as the mid-1950s, characterizes an artistic practice of constant transformation that deliberately rejects a consistent, recognizable style and resists any clear categorization. This attitude is reflected in Oberhuber’s multimedia oeuvre, which ranges from sculpture, painting, collage, and assemblage to pictures featuring writing and numbers, large textile works, and drawings. Alongside depictions of groups of figures and portraits, animals are recurring motifs. In „Female Cat and Male Cat“, the wide-open mouths are accentuated by a strong red, and the two animals are endowed with human sexual traits, symbolically revealing animalistic instincts within human structures of desire.
    • 2021 Schenkung Chistine König Galerie, Wien
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