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MUSEUM OF STIFT KLOSTERNEUBURG Margravine Agnes – a strong woman and mother Margravine Agnes is the first religious and the first to be installed with light effects artwork by the artists, pictured in partially translucent optics, which can be interpre- ted as a reference to the transience of our earthly existence. The life story of Margravine Agnes, with all her facets, serves as an iconographic model for this work. For this mysterious and understated room installation, commissioned by the Klosterneuburg Monastery’s Museum of the Modern Art, the Welte sisters implemented an aesthetically highly impressive contemporary solution to this theme. As the light shines subtly through the sculptures, it is dispersed, giving the spatial setting and the haptics of the surface structures a hazy appearance. Questions of the past, of mysticism and reality are inextricably linked to the metaphorically pure surface of the sculptures. If beauty binds us to the sensory world, then the sublime, in turn, is what frees us therefrom, Friedrich Schiller concluded in 1801. 7 6