Agnes Muthspiel

After the war she spent two terms studying Ethics and Logic as a Philosophy student at the University Theology faculty, back in Salzburg.

In social terms, during the post-war years the young widow associated with a number of artists, such as Max Peiffer Watenphul, Caspar Neher and Herbert Breiter.

[2] Her early work respected the newly rediscovered tradition of late expressionism, but she increasingly freed herself from fashionable preconceptions and became, in the best sense, a "naive artist".

There were also paintings of Rome, a city for which as a committed catholic she felt a special affinity, and of the island of Ponza which she visited frequently.

Her circle of friends included the sculptor Toni Schneider-Manzell, the composers Gottfried von Einem and Carl Orff, the poets Werner Bergengruen and Gerhard Amanshauser, along with fellow artists Eduard Bäumer and Paul Flora and, indeed, the iconic polymath-dramatist Bertolt Brecht.