The estate of Austrian-Liechtenstein artist Anne Marie Jehle was handed over to Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein by the Anne Marie Jehle Foundation in 2022. It comprises more than 1600 works, her library, papers and audiovisual estate as well as photographs and documents. The artistic works consist of objects, paintings, graphic art (drawings, papercuts, collages, monotypes), polaroids, photographs and staged spaces.
Jehle's works are also held by the Vorarlberg Museum, Bregenz; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Frauenmuseum Hittisau; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; the Kontakt Collection / the art collection of Erste Group and Erste Foundation, Vienna, and the Verbund Collection, Vienna.
Anne Marie Jehle
1937 in Feldkirch, Austria – 2000 in Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Object artist, installation artist, draughtswoman, photographer, painter.
Worked in her father's firm until 1964. From 1965 onwards, worked exclusively as an artist. At the end of the 1960s, contacts with the international art scene, the Fluxus movement and the nouveaux réalistes. Numerous exhibitions. 1989–93 stay in the USA, suddenly discontinued her artistic work. 1993–2000 lived in Liechtenstein.
All materials, forms and media can be used to convey a message. Jehle blurs the boundaries between artists, between art and life. Her works are set in the realm between object art and material picture, between conceptual art and installation. In terms of form and content, exploration of aspects and objects of everyday life (social criticism), social roles (gender) and phenomena of power, questions of identity, and later grey areas and boundary experiences.
The former Anne Marie Jehle Foundation
The foundation was founded with the aim of preserving and disseminating Jehle's artistic legacy. Its task was to preserve, document and publish her artworks, to subject them to scholarly analysis and make them known by staging exhibitions. After twenty years of successful activity, the foundation ceased operating in summer 2022.
Members of the former Anne Marie Jehle Foundation:
Dorothea Goop-Jehle (president of the foundation), Peter Goop, Christine Jehle, Verena Jehle, Stefania Pitscheider and Dagmar Streckel, who was also the curator.
Special mention should also be made of Peppi Hanser (1929–2010) and Gertrud Weber (1934–2022).
