Einsam · Zweisam

80 pen and coloured pencil drawings by Erna Francs are flanked by just as many poems and some statements by the following authors: Wolf Wondratschek, Sylvia Treudl, Franz Schuh, Christian Schreibmüller, Gerhard Ruiss, Ulrich Horstmann, Peter Gorsen, Karl-Markus Gauss, Bernhard Frankfurter, Walter Famler, Stephan Eibel and Gottfried Distl.Erna Francs' unique art - including her oil paintings - is explored in 12 essays penned by Rudolf Burger, Sonia Grassberger, Sven Hartberger, Bernhard Kraller, Rainer Metzger, Alfred J. Noll, Rotraud A. Perner, Erwin Riess, Peter Strasser, Alexander Wied, Herbert J. Wimmer and Franz Schuh. The illustrated book also contains a biography and an extensive bibliography of the artist. "Erna Francs, always keen to observe her surroundings with a sharp and evil eye, has at times felt a kinship with the veristic wing of New Objectivity, unsparing painters such as the early Otto Dix and George Grosz. Their sole topic is the human figure, or more precisely the human couple based on man and woman, which is thematised sometimes in cosy, sensual, sometimes sexually turbulent intercourse or intimate, familial bonds. An essential aspect ... of the human-all-too-human is the partnership - a grotesque-comic dressage act between the sexes".Peter Gorsen.