December Woman
Artist: Ann Wärff Wolff (Swedish, born 1937)
Date: 1988
Dimensions:
48 x 12 5/8 x 24 1/2 in.
Medium: Glass, blown, etched and sandblasted underlays, painted wood, metal
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy and George Saxe
Object number: 1993.11
Label Text:German artist Ann Wolff is a sculptor, painter, and printmaker who has also created extensively with glass, initially in a factory environment and later in her personal studio. She often combines materials in her work, expressing her mastery of many media. With a strong fascination with body parts (especially the head), Wolff explores the human condition in her work, focusing on women and cultural ideas of the dependence of women on men, women as homemakers, and the need for personal freedom. The haunted eyes in the glass “face” of this figure are strongly drawn and look out from atop the rigid and totemic body, seemingly expressing sorrow at growing old, as suggested by the title, December Woman.
A seminal figure in the international Studio Glass Movement, Wolff was educated as a designer in Germany in the Bauhaus tradition. She later moved to Sweden, where she designed production glassware, eventually establishing an independent glass studio on her farm in Transjö. Today, Wolff lives and works in both Sweden and Germany.
A seminal figure in the international Studio Glass Movement, Wolff was educated as a designer in Germany in the Bauhaus tradition. She later moved to Sweden, where she designed production glassware, eventually establishing an independent glass studio on her farm in Transjö. Today, Wolff lives and works in both Sweden and Germany.
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