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Xenia Hausner: Lucky Break Rainer Metzger and Katharina Sykora
A new book on Xenia Hausner, the artist who is a leading figure in Viennas hugely influential realist movement.
Hausners use of bold color and dramatic lightingthe product of her career as a set designeroffer as much insight into the emotional state of the artist as they reveal about the people she depicts. Lucky Break approaches Hausers work through the context of her creative process. Designed by Hausner herself, the books broad, horizontal format incorporates photographs, sketches, and notesassembled like collagesto enhance brilliant reproductions of her pieces. Accompanying the illustrations are essays discussing the influence of Hausners work in the theater and on her art, focusing on her search for motifs.
Rainer Metzger is an art historian and teacher, who lectures on art history at the University of Stuttgart.
Katharina Sykora is professor of nineteenth and twentieth-century art history in Brunswick, Germany, and has published widely on new media.
