Susanne Wenger - Artist Info

About Susanne Wenger

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    Susanne Wenger, born in 1915 in Graz, Austria, was an active founding member of the Vienna Art-Club in 1947. This and sixty years of art and life in Africa have earned her a world wide reputation as an accomplished artist with a personality to match. She was the subject of many TV-programmes and despite some colourful articles in various magazines reporting "a white goddess on a river in deepest Africa" - Susanne Wenger was first and foremost one of the most important modern Artists in post 1945 Austria. Because of her position as an outsider (both to the Nigerians as well as the Europeans) the view of her artistic achievements was sometimes obscured by exotic and misleading media reports. During the nights of Vienna's bombardment in 194http://theauctionroom.com/auctions/9...

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