Wojciechowsky, Agatha
Germany, 1896 – 1986
Agatha Wojciechowsky lived her earlier years in Steinach de Saale, and then sailed to the United States in 1923 to be a German-speaking governess in a German baron’s household. She married, became a US citizen and moved to New York City. In the early 1950’s, without any background or training in the arts, Wojciechowsky began drawing. First, letters and automatic writing appeared, and then abstract drawings and faces. Agatha Wojciechowsky, along with many other artists of the post war era, was reaching for something timeless, in the spiritual realm. Her work is the expression of that quest. Agatha Wojciechowsky was recognized during her lifetime as a Surrealist. Although not following an art movement, her work reflected the sentiment of Art Informel of the 1950’s. She had solo exhibitions from the 1960’s to the present in New York, Cologne, Berlin, and Hamburg. Group exhibitions included shows with Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Dubuffet, Isamu Noguchi, Francis Picabia, Romare Bearden. Her artwork can be found in numerous public collections including Museum of Modern Art, Prado Museum, the Menil Collection, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney Museum.
