Elisabeth Wild (6 February 1922 – 12 February 2020) was an Austrian collage artist.

Early life and education

Born in Europe, Wild emigrated to Argentina with her parents in Franz and Stefanie Pollack in 1938. Wild studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and drawing at the

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of Buenos Aires. In Buenos Aires, she worked as a textile designer, and later married a textile factory owner August Wild. In 1962 she and her husband sold their company and moved the family to Basel. In 2007 she moved to Guatemala to live with

Vivian Suter Vivian Suter (born 1949) is a Swiss-Argentinian painter. Early life Suter was born in Buenos Aires. Her mother, Elisabeth Wild, was a noted collage artist. At the age of 12, Suter moved to Basel, Switzerland with her family. Career In the 1970s ...

, her daughter, in a former coffee plantation next to Lake Atitlán.

Career

Wild exhibited with her daughter

in several two-person shows, including at the Mistake Room in Los Angeles in 2015, Proyectos Ultravioleta in 2016, Karma International in Los Angeles in 2017, and

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in Toronto in 2018. In 2018 she exhibited at the Carbon 12 gallery in Dubai. In 2017 she exhibited side-by-side with Suter at Documenta 14, in an exhibition curated by

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. She died at her home in Guatemala in 2020, aged 98.

Legacy

Rosalind Nashashibi's 2017 film ''Vivian’s Garden'' depicts the relationship of Wild and her artist daughter Vivian Suter. In 2020 wild's cover design for the London Underground's pocket Tube map was published. Her work is included in the Kontakt Collection and in the collection of the

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. The book ''Elisabeth Wild: Fantasías'', documenting Wild's collage work, was edited by Adam Szymczyk and published by MIT Press in 2021. The retrospective ''Elisabeth Wild. Imagination Factory'', held at Mumok in

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in 2023 and 2024 was the first exhibition to show works from all creative periods of the artist.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wild, Elisabeth 1922 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Austrian women artists 21st-century Austrian women artists Artists from Vienna Women collage artists Austrian expatriates in Argentina Austrian expatriates in Switzerland Expatriates in Guatemala