Geta Brătescu was born in Ploiești, Romania, in 1926. Despite state repression during the communist-Stalinist dictatorship under Nicolae Ceaușescu (1965–1989),

she developed a body of work characterised by an impressive understanding of playful and artistic freedom. Geta Brātescu continued to explore the revolution against the regime and the enormous social and political changes triggered by the introduction of democracy and the free market economy in her art until her death in 2018 at the age of over 90. She is considered one of the central figures in Romanian art after the Second World War. The catalogue accompanying the exhibition Geta Brătescu – The Woman and the Bird at the Francisco Carolinum Linz provides an insight into the artist's work.