The estate of Austrian-Liechtenstein artist Anne Marie Jehle was given to Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, by the Anne Marie Jehle Foundation in 2022. It comprises more than 1600 works, her library, papers and audiovisual materials as well as photographs and documents. The artworks consist of objects, paintings, graphic works (including drawings, paper cutouts, collages, monotypes), Polaroids, photographs and staged spaces.
Jehle's works are also in the collections of the Vorarlberg Museum, Bregenz, Austria; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; Frauenmuseum Hittisau, Austria; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany; 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
Jehle worked in her father's firm until 1964; after1965, she worked exclusively as an artist. From the late 1960s onwards, she had contact with the international art world, the Fluxus movement and the nouveaux réalistes and staged numerous exhibitions. From 1989 until 1993 she lived in the United States, then suddenly discontinued making art. 1993–2000 Jehle lived in Liechtenstein.
Her work comprises various media and techniques: objects, installations, drawings, collages, cut-paper work, photography and paintings.
Materials, forms and media are used to convey meaning. Jehle blurred the boundaries between artists, between art and life. Her works are set in the realm between object art and material image, between conceptual art and installation. In terms of form and content, she explored the aspects and objects of everyday life (social criticism), social roles (gender), phenomena of power, questions of identity, and later liminal 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 increase awareness by mounting 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).
