File under: Music & Sound Studies
Trilingual edition (English / German / French) The first catalogue raisonné of a Lettrist artist: a comprehensive collection of the 464 works (paintings, objects, multiples, works on paper) produced by Maggy Mauritz (born in 1941)—a pioneering artist in graffiti art and Lettrism—over more than six decades, featuring approximately 600 color illustrations.
Echoing the famous quote by the Guerrilla Girls, Maggy Mauritz held her first exhibition at the age of 80, in 2021 at the Loeve&Co. gallery.
She was the first female artist to take up the aerosol spray can, as early as 1966, using stencils to create compositions of letters and numbers as a pioneer of graffiti art. Maggy Mauritz is also, starting in 1963 and following her meeting with her future husband Roberto Altmann, the only Lettrist artist to hypergraph her works in German shorthand using regular script. A reference book on a pioneering artist, erased from art history, whom she rewrites with spray paint.
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File under: Music & Sound Studies
Cat. number: 978-2-37896-695-9
Year: 2026
Notes:
published in August 2026
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
320 pages (ill.)
