Agatha Wojciechowsky
Agatha Wojciechowsky (1896 -1986) was recognised during her lifetime as a Surrealist. Although not following an art movement, her work reflected the sentiment of Art Informel of the 1950's. Wojciechowsky lived her earlier years in Steinach de Saale, and then sailed to the United States in 1923 to be a German-speaking governess in a German baron's household. She married, became a US citizen and moved to New York City. A well-known Spiritualist medium, Wojciechowsky travelled internationally as a healer. In the early 1950's, without any background or training in the arts, she began drawing. First letters and automatic writing appeared, and then abstract drawings and faces. She said, “This is the work of different entities who take over and step into my body, directing my hand. I really have nothing to do with it.”
Agatha Wojciechowsky, along with many other artists of the post war era, was reaching for something timeless, in the spiritual realm. Her work is the expression of that quest. Her artwork can be found in numerous public collections including Museum of Modern Art, the Prado, the Menil Collection, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Whitney Museum.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
2019 Art & Spirit: Visions of Wonder, College of Psychic Studies, London
2018 Vestiges & Verse: Notes from the Newfangled Epic, American Folk Art Museum, New York
2004 American Art Brut, Cavin Morris Gallery, New York
2002 True Mediums: Drawings by European and American Spiritists, Cavin Morris Gallery, New York
1979 Agatha Wojciechowsky: Automatische Malerei, Galerie Springer, Berlin
1966 Soloists, Cordier & Ekstrom inc, New York
