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Birgit Jürgenssen was an extremely gifted and virtuous draftswoman. She deconstructed female stereotypes frequently integrating allusions to surrealist themes into her masterful drawings. The female body and its metamorphosis constitute a central aspect of her work and lead to questions within the socio-critical discourse. Based on the emancipatory potential of Surrealism and on the context of feminism of the 1970s, her practice synthesises a wide range of impulses and generates a multi-layered and manifold body of work from the late 1960s on. The staging of the female body in the light of …