16 Facts About Kiki Kogelnik

Kiki Kogelnik was an Austrian painter, sculptor and printmaker.

Kiki Kogelnik lived in New York City for many years.

Kiki Kogelnik was born on January 22,1935, in Graz, Austria.

Kiki Kogelnik studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.

Kiki Kogelnik began her career at the Galerie Nachst St Stephan in Vienna in 1961, showing abstract works.

Kiki Kogelnik was close to another abstract expressionist, the American artist Sam Francis, and spent time with him in 1961 in New York and Santa Monica, California.

Kiki Kogelnik then moved to New York in 1962 where she joined a close-knit group of artists that included Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Tom Wesselmann, Joan Mitchell, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, among others.

Pop was a way of life and, with her extravagant hats and outfits, Kiki Kogelnik became a captivating happening wherever she went.

That same year, Kiki Kogelnik married radiation oncologist Dr George Schwarz in London, giving birth to her son Mono in 1967, returning to New York shortly thereafter.

In 1969, Kiki Kogelnik created a Moonhappening during the lunar landing of Apollo 11 at the Galerie Nachst St Stephan in Vienna, producing a series of lunar-themed silkscreens during the live broadcast.

Kiki Kogelnik died of cancer on February 1,1997, in Vienna.

In 1998 Kiki Kogelnik was posthumously awarded Austria's highest medal in the arts, the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art.

Kiki Kogelnik was previously awarded, in 1995, the City of Vienna Prize for Visual Arts.

In 2003, the Austrian Post office issued a 55 euro-cent stamp featuring Kiki Kogelnik's 1973 painting, Prenez Le Temps d'Aimer.

Kiki Kogelnik designed two fountains, one in Bleiburg, Austria and another in Klagenfurt, Austria, where a street is named after her.

In 2015, Kiki Kogelnik was included in The World Goes Pop, an exhibit held at the Tate Modern.