Vienna School of Fantastic Realism

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Mosaic Plants and Stars (1958) by Wolfgang Hutter

Leherb Mosaic 1

Elginat Egos , Arik Brauer

The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism is a term coined in the 1950s by Johann Muskik for a trend in Austrian art that is close to Surrealism .

The style of painting is not abstract and is based on the technical perfection of the Old Masters , the motifs are fantastically unreal creations, sometimes with shocking, apocalyptic content, often with a Mannerist orientation . From the first joint exhibition in Vienna 's Belvedere in 1959, which was soon followed by other exhibitions abroad, the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism achieved its breakthrough to international fame. Her art achieved a particularly wide impact through prints in large numbers as well as through numerous students and imitators.

The Viennese painter , writer and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Albert Paris Gütersloh , is regarded as the founder . The surrealist painter Edgar Jené is also regarded as the spiritus rector of the Viennese school . Incidentally, an essential motive for the designation found by Johann Muskik as “Fantastic Realism” was initially to use the concept of realism valued by Stalinist cultural doctrine and to avoid the term surrealism, which was unwelcome in this political area. Other critics judged the popular Viennese school of painting to be outmoded and outdated in comparison to the abstract expressionism pushed by the West during the Cold War and later to Viennese Actionism .

The main representatives include Arik Brauer , Ernst Fuchs , Rudolf Hausner , Anton Lehmden , Helmut Leherb and Gütersloh's son Wolfgang Hutter , as well as in the second generation Kurt Regschek , Herbert Benedikt , Franz Luby (1902-1989), Richard Matouschek (1920-1976) and Peter Proksch .

literature

• Mussik, Johann (1974) The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. , Gütersloh: Bertelsmann ISBN 3-570-06123-X .
• Boeckl, Smola, Borchhardt-Birbaumer, Bugs, Gratzer, Schoeller (2008) Fantastic Realism , Vienna: Belvedere ISBN 978-3-901508-44-8 .

web links

• Entry on the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism in the Austria-Forum  (in the AEIOU -Austria-Lexicon )
• Entry on the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism in the Austria Forum
• Meyers Lexicon online – Vienna School of Fantastic Realism ( Memento of January 22, 2008 at the Internet Archive )
• Video Conversation with the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism - ARTV.at

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