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Irene Andessner
 
Barbara Blomberg Souvenir, 1998
Wooden light box with digital print,
and "Barbara-Küssen" [Barbara’s kisses, pralines],
19 x 19 x 6.5 cm

Preference edition of 14 ex. (A.P.) (Inkjet print)
Edition of 50 ex. (offset print), sign./num.
(sold out)
100 Euro

For a gallery exhibition at Lindinger + Schmid in Regensburg, Irene Andessner slipped into the role of Barbara Blomberg - no portrait image of whom has been handed down. The daughter of a Regensburg burgher had been put as a "hot water bottle" (in the vernacular expression) into the bed of King Charles V on his 1546 journey through. There thus emerged on the one hand Don Juan de Austria, on the other "Barbara-Küsse" [Barbara’s kisses], which are still made today by a Regensburg confectioner (an essential part of the special edition of the multiple). The main work, a self-staging in three-quarter portrait as the commander’s mother, was bought by the City of Regensburg for the town hall.

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