Hildegard Joos Austrian, 1909-2005

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Hildegard Joos is one of the most important artists of geometric abstraction in Austria. Her striking development spans an arch of Constructivism, Concrete Art, and Op Art to the Narrative Geometries, an individual and unique form vocabulary which she developed together with her artist and life partner, the swiss philosopher, Harold Joos in the late 1970s. As a result, her work proved to be an impetus for the young generation and led to a revision and re-estimation of the geometric form language.

Since 1955 she was a member of the Secession in Vienna and was the first female artist in 1962, whose work was presented in a solo exhibition in the main room of the Secession. Three other individual exhibitions took place there in 1964, 1967, and 1980.

From 1959 onwards, Hildegard Joos had a studio in Paris, where she looked up with her monistic pictures. She participated in the international development of geometric abstraction and in numerous exhibitions such as the "Salon des Indépendants" and the "Salon des Réalités Nouvelles". In 2001 she was with 11 other Austrian artists in Paris at the French art fair "Salon d'Automne" , among with others like Brandl Damisch, Attersee, Muntean-Rosenblum etc.

The work of Hildegard Joos marks an interface in the tradition of geometric-constructive abstraction and the discourse of contemporary painting.
Her works are placed in museum collections such as the Belvedere Museum, Vienna; Albertina Museum, Vienna; Mumok, Vienna; NÖ Landesmuseum, St.Pölten; Lentos Museum, Linz; Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus; Artothek des Bundes, Vienna etc.

Works
  • s/w Rasterbild
    s/w Rasterbild
  • Verschiebung
    Verschiebung
  • Verschiebung
    Verschiebung
  • Quadrate rot blau
    Quadrate rot blau
  • Verschiebung
    Verschiebung
  • Balance Kompoision C3
    Balance Kompoision C3
  • Narrative Geometrismen No. 271
    Narrative Geometrismen No. 271
  • Geométrismes narratifs No 97
    Geométrismes narratifs No 97
  • Geométrismes narratifs No. 115
    Geométrismes narratifs No. 115
  • Narrative Geometrismen No. 122
    Narrative Geometrismen No. 122
  • Narrative Geometrismen No 102
    Narrative Geometrismen No 102
  • Narrative Geometrismen
    Narrative Geometrismen
  • Raumnarrativ No. 189
    Raumnarrativ No. 189
  • Schach mit rotem Kreuz
    Schach mit rotem Kreuz
  • Verschiebung
    Verschiebung
  • Narrative Geometrismen No 290
    Narrative Geometrismen No 290 Sold
  • Narrative Geometrismen
    Narrative Geometrismen Sold
  • Verschiebung-Composition 10
    Verschiebung-Composition 10
  • Verschiebung
    Verschiebung
  • Balance
    Balance
  • Verschiebung - Composition 7
    Verschiebung - Composition 7
  • Aequivoke Evolutionen 15
    Aequivoke Evolutionen 15
  • Elancement/Evolutions ambigues No 48
    Elancement/Evolutions ambigues No 48
  • Balance C 18
    Balance C 18 Sold
  • Balance Komposition C 3
    Balance Komposition C 3
  • Narrative Geometrismen No 279
    Narrative Geometrismen No 279
  • Balance B 31
    Balance B 31
  • Narrative Geometrismen No. 102
    Narrative Geometrismen No. 102
  • Narrative Geometrismen No. 83
    Narrative Geometrismen No. 83
  • Dérogation
    Dérogation
  • Dérogation
    Dérogation
  • Balance
    Balance
  • Balance
    Balance
  • Geometrische Komposition rot/blau
    Geometrische Komposition rot/blau
  • Komposition in Weiß
    Komposition in Weiß
Exhibitions