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Maria Lassnig, (born Sept. 8, 1919, Kappel am Krappfeld, Carinthia, Austria?died May 6, 2014, Vienna, Austria), Austrian painter who often created distorted, even grotesque ?self-portraits.? Lassnig described her work as responding to ?body awareness?; rather than relying on photographs or her own observations about her external appearance, she would attempt to capture the image of how her body felt to her internally. In Transparentes Selbstportr?t (?Transparent Self-Portrait?; 1987), Lassnig rendered herself as a surreal, morbid, and ghostly figure; half of her face was covered by a transparent screen. In the striking Du oder Ich (?You or Me?; 2005), https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Lassnig