Hohs Liselotte Biography
Liselotte Hohs was born in Vienna in 1939 and attended the Akademie für angevandte Kunst in Vienna before continuing her studies in Brussels. He subsequently moved to Venice where he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts with master Guido Cadorin. During the 1950s he frequented the Venetian intelligentsia, including Peggy Guggenheim, important gallery owners, poets and writers such as Ezra Pound, Indro Montanelli, Dino Buzzati, Philip Roth, Pier Maria Pasinetti, Goffredo Parise, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alain Ginzburg and Gregory Course.
Liselotte Hohs had a unique artistic style, she used pure colors and loved to represent landscapes, animals and secret, not very touristy corners of Venice. Starting from 1958 he presented around fifty personal exhibitions in Italy, Europe and America. In addition to painting, she also tried her hand at applied arts, painting on glass, ceramics and fabrics thanks to the influence of Mariano Fortuny, an eclectic artist who she collected.
During a trip to Central Africa in 1976, Liselotte Hohs discovered the spectacular flags of Ghana and Benin. These inspired her to create "textile paintings", which consisted of textiles made like patchwork. In 2001, at the Museum of Fabric and Costume of Palazzo Mocenigo, he presented with great success a solo exhibition of "tapestry", created for applications such as patchwork and textile mosaic.
In 2005, following a trip to India, Liselotte Hohs came into contact with a small community of Tibetans who knotted carpets. Thus he began to design his new pieces of art: soft pure wool carpets. In six years, he produced around forty unique specimens, which were exhibited to the public for the first time in the "Animal magnetism" exhibition at the Monumental Halls of the Marciana National Library in Venice.
