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Magical, lyrical, sometimes melancholic and always rigorously composed works, rendered in subdued colours, combine geometric ornamentation with motifs from ancient Italy: birds, fruit, foliage, baskets, jugs and vases. Theme and variation characterise the artist\u2019s work. The retrospective at the Lentos Art Museum, curated by Elisabeth Nowak -Thaller at the Lentos Art Museum features around 100 paintings by the artist, who trained in Linz alongside Herbert Bayer and under Franz Z\u00fclow in Gmunden. The exhibition centres on the 1979 donation of 50 tempera paintings from the estate of the artist, who died in Vienna in 1977, by her husband Karl R\u00f6ssing, the internationally renowned graphic artist and professor at the Academy. It is complemented by private loans, on display for the first time, from her early works from the Nazi era, which had long been lost. The exhibition follows R\u00f6ssing\u2019s guiding principle of \u201cnot transience, but enduring presence\u201d and, at the same time, opens up a dialogue with selected works by Karl R\u00f6ssing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>erika r\u00f6sing (1903\u20131977) \u2013 The Solitude of Things<\/strong><br>02.10.2026 \u2013 24.01.2027<br>Lentos Kunstmuseum<br>Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1, 4020 Linz<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lentos.at\/\">www.lentos.at<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02.10.2026 \u2013 24.01.2027 In her quiet, poetic tempera paintings, Erika Roessing constantly rearranges similar objects; and yet every painting is unique. Her body of work, documented in sketchbooks, comprises around 180 still lifes on canvas. 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