Artist

Birgit Jürgenssen

Portrait of Birgit Jürgenssen
Portrait of Birgit Jürgenssen

Austrian, 1949–2003

Birgit Jürgenssen was an Austrian artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art.

Birgit Jürgenssen was an Austrian photographer, painter, graphic artist, curator and teacher who specialized in feminine body art with self-portraits and photo series, which have revealed a sequence of events related to the daily social life of a woman in its various forms including an atmosphere of shocking fear and common prejudices. She was acclaimed as one of the "outstanding international representatives of the feminist avant-garde". She lived in Vienna.

Apart from holding solo exhibitions of her photographic and other art works, she also taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Works by Birgit Jürgenssen

Collections represented

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