Fantastic Museum

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Fantastic Museum

The Phantastenmuseum is a museum in Palais Pálffy in Vienna's 1st district, Inner City . It shows the development of fantastic , surreal and visionary art from the post-war period to the present.

history

After discussions between the Austrian artist Ernst Fuchs and the publisher, organizer and author Gerhard Habarta, the idea of ​​creating a museum for fantastic art in Vienna arose. The “Austrian Cultural Center since 1958” in Palais Pálffy was enthusiastic about the idea, and the plans for the new museum were finalized in 2010. The adaptation of the premises began in autumn 2010 and was completed in January 2011. The opening of the museum took place on January 15, 2011 under the patronage of Federal President Heinz Fischer .

Premises

Parts of the historical Palais Pálffy, which was renovated in the 1950s due to war damage, were used for the museum.

The foyer was designed by Lehmden student Kurt Welther on the theme of Figaro's wedding . A reception area with the ticket box, information and the museum shop was also set up here. Gifts such as replicas of famous works of art, sculptures, jewelry, catalogs and art prints as well as original editions are sold here. The gallery is on the first floor opposite the Figaro concert hall . It is a 150 m² room for solo exhibitions. The museum occupies the entire upper floor and consists of designed rooms. In addition to the works from its own holdings and permanent loans, documents and portraits of the artist's personalities are shown.

The museum

The museum is divided into the following areas:

  • Impulse: Here the impulses are shown that brought the young artists first information after the war, with works by Edgar Jené and Gustav K. Beck and Arnulf Neuwirth .
  • Academy : Here the young creative people found an artistic home, with works by Albert Paris Gütersloh , Ernst Fuchs, Fritz Janschka , Anton Lehmden and Kurt Steinwendner , before he became a filmmaker and object artist Curt Stenvert .
  • Contemporaries: These include older fantastic artists who survived the dictatorship, such as Greta Freist , Kurt Goebel , Charles Lipka or the CIA agent Charles von Ripper . And the boys, like Rudolf Schönwald or Arnulf Rainer, as well as painters who later moved to the Art Club . These include the “partisan” Maria Biljan-Bilger , Peppino Wierendenik , before he turned to the abstract, and Carl Unger, who designed a large glass front for the Palais Pálffy.
  • Art Club : It brought together the artistic elite of the post-war period and, with the straw suitcase, became a sociable center.
  • Hundsgruppe: It became the first counter-movement in which the rebels such as Ernst Fuchs, Arnulf Rainer and Maria Lassnig , Wolfgang Kudrnofsky and the outsider fantasy Anton Krejcar manifested themselves with graphics that have become valuable today.
  • The Pintorarium by Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Ernst Fuchs and Arnulf Rainer campaigned with wall newspapers and nude demonstrations against the established academy, bad architecture and for freedom of the spirit.
  • Hundertwasser implemented the theories of the pintorarium in his buildings. A photo documentation by Kurt Pultar .
  • Vienna School of Fantastic Realism : The core of the museum with pictures by Arik Brauer , Wolfgang Hutter , Fritz Janschka, who lives in the USA, and Anton Lehmden. By Rudolf Hausner - in addition to an oil painting - the documentation of long-term work on his Ark of Odysseus to see. In addition to an early work by Ernst Fuchs, a large painting version specially created for the museum is on display from a drawing made 55 years ago.
  • In the simultaneous section, there are 16 pictures of those Viennese fantasists who presented themselves for the first time in the 1960s. a. in the gallery that Ernst Fuchs installed.
  • In the Next Generation department, there are those almost “still young” who - despite temporary exclusion by the avant-garde - feel obliged to new tendencies of the fantastic, such as Hanno Karlhuber, who turned to magical realism . Some of them studied with Hausner, Lehmden, Hutter and Fuchs and also learned as an assistant.
  • The Graphisches Kabinett exhibits a number of etchings , lithographs and postage stamps. Worldwide networking is shown here in around 30 works by international dreamers. Representatives from Japan, the USA, Australia and European centers are the ambassadors of associations of fantastic artists, the Ambassadors of the Fantastic Universe.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Museum for Fantastics opened (ORF Vienna, January 15, 2011)
  2. ↑ Hanno Karlhuber: the magic of the moment, Publisher: Vienna: Phantastenmuseum, ISBN 978-3-902915-00-9

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