Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky: The Painter / Die Malerin

by Jeremy Adler (Editor), Birgit Sander (Editor), Jill Lloyd (Contributor)

With a representative selection of paintings and sketches from the artist, whose connection with Max Beckman, Oskar Kokoschka and Elias Canetti was a source of great inspiration, this book offers for the first time an educated interpretation of Motesiczky's work. Essays about her life and her accomplishments written by leading Motesiczky scholars, paint a fascinating overall picture of this 20th century artist,who is still left to be discovered.

224 pages, Paperback

First published July 27, 2006

About the author

Jeremy Adler is Professor of German at King’s College London. He studied German at Queen Mary College (University of London) and was a Lecturer in German at Westfield College before being awarded a Personal Chair. He is a sometime fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin, and a sometime scholar of the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel.

He has written a book on Goethe’s novel The Elective Affinities (1987) and (with Ulrich Ernst) has produced a catalogue of visual poetry, Text als Figur (third edition, 1990). He has published several volumes of poetry, including The Wedding and other Marriages (1980), The Electric Alphabet (1986; second edition, 1996, internet edition, 1997) and At the Edge of the World (1995).

Jeremy Adler is married and lives in London.