2026Angela Eisenkock – Fragments 44 - Set

The aesthetics of transience A new stamp in the “Art from Austria” series features a work by the artist Angela Eisenköck taken from her “Fragments” series. Angela Eisenköck was born in Gumpoldskirchen. She studied architecture at Graz University of Technology and for a long time worked for architectural companies in Graz, where she still works today as both an artist and a Feldenkrais teacher. Artistic creativity was her passion from an early age, originally being expressed through portraiture. However, from 2018 on, her motifs and technique changed with the “Fragments” series, in which nature, with its fascinating shapes of flowers and leaves, but especially its transience, became the focus of her works. The design on the stamp, “Fragments 44”, is also taken from this series, a work measuring 160 by 180 centimetres executed in pastels, charcoal and acrylics. Through a time-consuming process of transformation, Angela Eisenköck reworked the original photograph of a withered plant and then transferred the image onto canvas. Through further reworkings in multiple layers on the canvas, she continuously developed the image further, so that what was already past ultimately gained a new expression and identity. In this way, in the end it is not just a copy of nature that is created, but rather an entirely new image, which, through the fine details and delicate shapes, nevertheless still reminds us of a notional, almost spectral plant.