Sculptor Gerda Fassel died at the age of 83 – Diepresse.com

The strong woman was the motif of Gerda Fassel, « female debris », she called her bronze powerful female torsi. Long before Body Podiatry was known. But the characteristics of an entire generation of artists who have long been overlooked, which is 70, 80 years old and older today. The sculptor Gerda Fassel was one of them. She died in Vienna on Tuesday after a long illness. She was no longer allowed to experience the great rediscovery. In doing so, she had also received recognition: from 1996 to 2006 she led the master class for sculpture on the applied in the successor Alfred Hrdlickas.

Gerda Fassel opened in his apprenticeship, put his own art behind, larger exhibitions were not brought to her. Finally retired, the physical complaints came. Her life was, also due to the material, a tough one. Born in a family of workers, Fassel only got a commercial training. Then went to the United States in the 1960s, where she worked in the catering trade – but also studied sculpture in New York. Back in Vienna, she completed her studies on the applied. But sculpture was a male domain. What remains of Fassel are a few work in public space, including the controversial Che Guevara Bust in the Danube Park. The composite, which specializes in feminist art, recently bought some drawings from Fassel and the sculpture « Titti de la Mancha » from 1979. Fassel was also portrayed in Susanne Riegler’s Dokufilm. (Alm)