부산대학교 도서관

(b Graz, July 4, 1915; d Osogbo, Jan 12, 2009). Austrian sculptor, painter, batik artist, and priestess, active in Nigeria. She began her training at the School of Fine Art, Graz, followed by two years at the Vienna Academy of Art, where she studied fresco painting and founded the Vienna Art Club, as well as illustrating a children’s magazine. In 1950 she moved with her husband, Ulli Beier, to Nigeria where she became influential in the Osogbo School. She continued to paint in modernist styles, but after an extended illness she also began creating silkscreens, and batiks with natural and synthetic dyes and cassava-starch resist on cotton. The silkscreens are cubist in design, emphasizing intricate geometric forms and complex decorative patterns. Concurrently, Wenger became increasingly involved in local Yoruba culture and beliefs and apprenticed herself to a priest, eventually becoming first a priestess of Sango, the Yoruba god of Thunder and Lightning and subsequently a priestess of Osun, Yoruba goddess of sweet waters, fertility, and provider of children. Her major works are the monumental figurative sculptures dedicated to numerous Yoruba ...