The thesis focuses on the work of Friederike Mayrocker, one of the most prominent authors of Austria. References to artworks or artists are significant for many poetic textes. The study reveales the structure of the anticipation of artworks, the methods of their interpretation and the poetic rules for the quotation of art-related references. The study presumes, that art and literature, artworks and literary works of fiction as well as poems are two different systems which are differently percepted. Exemplary it shows the possibilities and the limits of a comparison of these two systems. The...