Women in Art 278 Magazine July 2014 | Page 32

austrian artist Johanna Leipold acrylic and oil painting Johanna Leipold was born in Munich, Germany on January 4, 1947. After studying Art Education at Munich and moving to Austria, she also took art classes with F.P. Hofbauer. Johanna Leipold prefers painting acrylics on canvas and focuses on expressive figure paintings. She emphatically employs colors to describe peoples’ physiognomy and postures. That way she manages to point with a satiric undertone to some idiosyncrasies of the persons portrayed. By isolating the people from their usual surrounding, these idiosyncrasies appear to be even greater. wom en ART page 32