Ernst Fuchs (painter)

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Ernst Fuchs (2007)
In 1972 he acquired the Otto Wagner Villa , which is currently used as the Ernst Fuchs Museum
Fountain house Nymphäum Omega with Moses fountain in the park of the Otto Wagner Villa (1992–1996)

Ernst Fuchs (born February 13, 1930 in Vienna ; † November 9, 2015 ibid) was an Austrian painter , graphic artist , sculptor , set designer , composer , author , philosopher and visionary . He is considered a co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism .

Life

Ernst Fuchs was born in Vienna in 1930 as the only child of Maximilian and Leopoldine Fuchs; on his father's side, his ancestors were of Jewish origin. When his grandfather Siegmund went to the USA and his father had to emigrate to Shanghai after the “Anschluss” of Austria in 1938/39, he was baptized a Roman Catholic in 1942 after anti-Semitic hostility. He himself chose his baptismal name: Ernst Peter Paul (after Peter Paul Rubens, the favorite painter of the then 12-year-old). Before that, in 1941, the young Ernst Fuchs became a pupil of the “Zum heiligen Jospeh” home, which took in half and valid Jews , where he spent eighteen months. From around 1942 Fuchs received his first instruction in drawing and painting from the painter and restorer Alois Schiemann , the brother of his godmother. Up to the age of fifteen he received lessons in sculpture and painting from Emmy Steinböck and Fritz Fröhlich at the St. Anna painting school in Vienna.

From 1946 to 1950 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, first under Robin Andersen , then under Albert Paris Gütersloh . There was a first solo exhibition in Paris in 1949 , where he moved in 1950. This was followed by trips to America, Italy, Spain and England until 1956. In 1957 he stayed for a long time in the Dormition Monastery on Mount Zion ( Israel ) and worked with icon painting. In 1962 he returned to Vienna, where he received a professorship. Together with Wolfgang Hutter , Arik Brauer , Rudolf Hausner and Anton Lehmden, he is one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism . In 1972 he acquired the Otto Wagner Villa and began to realize his architectural ideas with the Nymphäum Omega fountain . The renovated building now serves as the "Ernst Fuchs Private Museum" and event location.

His initially surrealist , later mannerist works often show religious or mythical symbolism. According to the statements in his book “Architectura Caelestis”, many of his motifs are based on visionary experience. In Paris, influenced by Flemish painting, he produced numerous iconographic works. Three of these works later formed the altarpiece of the Rosary Church in Vienna-Hetzendorf.

Sculptures and some opera equipment ( Parsifal and Die Zauberflöte in Hamburg , Lohengrin in Munich ) date from the 1970s . He was to equip Mozart's Magic Flute again in 1996. Poetry and philosophical essays were also written in the 1970s.

Fuchs sang and played mystically inspired records, among other things. a. the albums "Von Jahwe" (chants about the tetragram JHWH ) and "Via Dolorosa", and worked again and again with musicians, where he also implemented his spiritual motifs as a singer. So z. B. the album "Aphrica" ​​with Klaus Schulze (1983), which he later withdrew due to a lack of artistic agreement. There was further cooperation a. with Chris Karrer from Amon Düül II in 1994 and the release of the double CD "Mystische Gesänge".

In the 1990s, Fuchs was increasingly active as an artistic designer of buildings ( parish church Thal near Graz , hotel complex in St. Veit an der Glan ), whereby his fantastic architecture is particularly noticeable through the use of lush ornamentation and strong colors.

Modern works by Fuchs based on biblical, mystical or astrological motifs have been shown at exhibitions in Austria, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and other countries since the 1980s.

Fuchs cultivated friendships with Salvador Dalí , Arno Breker , Mati Klarwein , Leonor Fini , Eva Nagy and many other artists. In 1975 Fuchs was the youngest of the friendship between artists that Salvador Dalí proclaimed: “We are the golden triangle of art: Breker-Dalí-Fuchs. You can turn us around as you want, we are always on top. "

In 1980 he drew the cover picture of the unsalable first edition of the magazine Natur .

In 1982 Fuchs designed a BMW 635 CSi . The BMW Art Car was called by him the “fire fox hunting rabbits”. In 1987, Ernst Fuchs portrayed Falco . The dialogue the two had while painting was recorded and broadcast on ORF on the occasion of Falco's 50th birthday. In 2005 the director and producer Jürgen Haase portrayed Ernst Fuchs in the documentary With the Eyes of the Soul. I wanted to be a street singer and emperor .

Ernst Fuchs, father of 16 children from seven (according to ORF: eight) relationships, died on November 9, 2015 in Vienna. He was buried in the Hütteldorfer Friedhof in the 14th district of Penzing in Vienna .

Awards

Sphinx (1978)
Interior view of the Church of St.Jakob in Thal, 1994
Moses Fountain in Wiener Neustadt, 1997
Art Hotel Fuchspalast (St. Veit / Glan)

Quotes about fox

“What impresses about Fuchs is his high level of intelligence, his enormous literacy and his sparkling imagination, which pours out like a long-pent-up spring and carries everything along with enthusiasm; it never seems to dry up. In him you have a culture of three thousand years old, which he represents with his works. "

- Arno Breker

Works

Books and CDs

  • Ernst Fuchs: Architectura Caelestis - Pictures of the Lost Style, Paperback, 223 p., With 15, partly colored plates and numerous illustrations in the text, 1966
  • Album of the Fuchs family (Salzburg: Residenz, 1973)
  • Under the Sign of the Sphinx: Writings and Images , ed.Walter Schurian (Munich, Dtv, 1978)
  • Aura: A fairy tale of longing (Munich: Dtv, 1981)
  • The prophet of beauty: Arno Breker (Marco, 1982)
  • From Jahwe: Poems (Munich, 1982)
  • Ernst Fuchs: Fantastic life. Memories. 1st edition Berlin 2001. ISBN 3-463-40401-X
  • Mystical Chants (double CD)
  • Dervish Kiss (CD by and with Chris Karrer )

Cycles

  • "Apocalypse" (approx. 1945)
  • "Cataclysms" cycle (approx. 1945–46)
  • "The City" (approx. 1946–47)
  • "Bikini Atoll" (approx. 1947)
  • "The metamorphosis of the creature" (approx. 1949–50)
  • "Unicorn" cycle (approx. 1950–52)
  • "Cherub" cycle (approx. 1961–65)

literature

Web links

Commons : Ernst Fuchs  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Werfring: The holy grandfather article in the "Wiener Zeitung" of December 3, 2009, supplement "ProgrammPunkte", p. 7.
  2. ^ Friedrich Haider (Ed.): Ernst Fuchs - drawings and graphics from the early creative period 1942-1959 . Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2003, p. 29 .
  3. ^ Description of the film ( memento of February 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at Progress Film-Verleih .
  4. ^ Painter Ernst Fuchs died at the age of 85. In: ORF , November 9, 2015 (audio).
  5. ↑ Ernst Fuchs: One who stuck to the archetype. In: Der Standard , November 9, 2015.
  6. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Ernst Fuchs
  7. ↑ Ernst Fuchs awarded a gold medal on his 80th birthday In: Rathauskorrespondenz from March 22, 2010 (accessed on March 23, 2010).
  8. ↑ cit. from “Arno Breker - Schriften”, Marco-Edition Bonn-Paris, 1983. P. 79. ISBN 3-921754-19-4
  9. ↑ Entry on Ernst Fuchs (painter) in the Austria Forum  (as a stamp illustration).
  10. ^ Friedrich Haider (ed.): Ernst Fuchs - drawings and graphics from the early creative period 1942-1959 .
  11. ↑ Jassenjawski, Kiblitsky: Ernst Fuchs - Fantasia . Artograph Verlag, Munich & Düsseldorf, ISBN 3-9803359-0-9 .
  12. ^ Walter Schurian: 1900 to 2010: Fantastic Art from Vienna , ISBN 9783938049174 , pages 137-138, 159
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 2015
Place of death Vienna