The Leopold Museum exhibits Hilda Uccusic ~ A Cultural Idol

Written by Greg Rollison Wednesday, 24 August 2011 21:11

 

Vienna, Austria - The Leopold Museum is showing an extensive exhibition of the work of Hilda Uccusic. It presents her sensitive and effortlessly executed watercolours and drawings, including portraits, landscapes, floral depictions and city views. Special attention is devoted to the series “Heads and Portraits”, which has represented a project of particular importance to the artist in recent years. On exhibition through 26 January, 2009.

Born in 1938 in Lille, France as the daughter of Austrian parents, Hilda Uccusic returned to Austria in 1940 in the midst of the war following internment in the Pyrenees. After completing secondary school she studied mathematics and art history at the University of Vienna from 1956 to 1962 as well as painting and art education at the Academy of Fine Arts, where her teachers included Robin Christian Andersen and Herbert Boeckl.

In 1959 and 1961 Hilda Uccusic attended Oskar Kokoschka’s “School of Seeing”. During the 1960s she taught art at various Viennese secondary schools and in Oberpullendorf. Hilda Uccusic has been married since 1964 and gave birth to four children between 1965 and 1974, who have, in addition to landscapes, frequently been a favourite subject of her watercolours.

Numerous exhibitions in Austria and abroad as well as a variety of prizes and honours bear witness to Hilda Uccusic’s important role in Austrian cultural life.  Visit The Leopold Museum at : www.leopoldmuseum.org

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