Austrian artist (1904–1993)
Margaretha Maria Josefa "Greta" Freist (21 July 1904 – 18 September 1993) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist. 
Early life and education.
Freist was born in Weikersdorf in Lower Austria. She studied at the Fröhlich painting school in Vienna, and at the Academy of Fine Arts with Rudolf Bacher and Rudolf Jettmar from 1924 to 1930. 
Career.
Freist worked as a freelance painter, graphic artist, restorer, ceramist and fabric painter[3] and worked together with her fellow student, and partner Gottfried Goebel. They lived with Heimito von Doderer in a studio in Hartäckerstraße[4] in Döbling, which also became a literary meeting place. Elias Canetti and Otto Basil, among others, frequented there.
In 1936 (or 1937[3]) she emigrated with Goebel to Paris, where she had her first exhibition at the Salon d'Automne. During the war years, her partner Goebel was interned and Freist was arrested several times for black market trafficking. After the war, the French section of the International Art Club, was founded in her studio in 1950. 
Her style changed; her early work is characterized by a magically colored realism. From about 1949 to 1967 she painted abstractly. After an inspiring trip to Spain, she turned back to a figurative, fantastic style of painting, combined with a time-critical statement: she wanted to express the dehumanization of the world. From 1988 until her death, she devoted herself to abstraction again. Freist died in Paris in 1993.
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