Fantastic realism

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The Fantastic Realism designated one from the Surrealism Hans Bellmer and Salvador Dalí's developed style of painting , which came after the Second World War, particularly in Austria and Germany in appearance and their representatives were almost all still traumatic reeling from the horrors of World War II. The term visionary art often appears with these artists .

Important representatives

The main representatives were the Mannerist painters of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism , "whose subjects consisted of mythical themes, cosmic dreams, Old Testament fables and apocalyptic visions". Fine painting in a psychologizing style that also incorporated surrealistic elements is typical of her. The works were neither purely abstract nor rigidly realistic.

Also the following artists: Fritz Aigner , Angerer the Elder , Hans Bellmer , Arik Brauer , Gisela Breitling , Peter Collien , Otfried H. Culmann , Edgar Ende , Ernst Fuchs , Hansruedi Giger , Fabius von Gugel , Joe Hackbarth , Thomas Häfner , Friedrich Hechelmann , Wolfgang Hutter , Rudolf Hausner , Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Peter Klitsch , Anton Lehmden , Helmut Leherb , Franz Radziwill , Gerhard Swoboda , Bruno Weber , Richard Matouschek, Carel Willink and Mac Zimmermann .

See also

literature

  • Wieland Schmied: 200 years of fantastic painting . Rembrandt Verlag, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-7925-0067-1
  • Karin Thomas: DuMont's small non-fiction dictionary on the art of the 20th century. From anti-art to zero . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-7701-0622-9 .
  • Jörg Kriechbaum and Rein A. Zondergeld: Lexicon of fantastic painting . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-7701-0908-2 .
  • Gerhard Habarta: Lexicon of Fantastic Artists , Volumes 1 and 2, Verlag Books on Demand, 2010 and 2013, ISBN 978-3-8370-8427-6 and ISBN 978-3-8482-6307-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karin Thomas: DuMont's small non-fiction dictionary on the art of the 20th century. From anti-art to zero . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1977, p. 187.
  2. ↑ Udo Christoffel: Gisela Breitling . In: Communal gallery Wilmersdorf of Berlin (ed.): Culture picture book . 1st edition. No. 2 . Verlag Friedrich Nolte, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-921177-31-6 .
  3. ^ Gerhard Habarta: Lexicon of the fantastic artists . BoD - Books on Demand, Vienna 2013, ISBN 3-8482-6307-6 , pp. 524 pages .