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Ernst Fuchs* (Vienna 1930 – 2015 Vienna) Pidgeon son etching on paper 17.6 x 14.6 cm signed Ernst Fuchs, numbered 23/60 ESTIMATE €150 – €300 STARTING PRICE €150 Ernst Fuchs was an Austrian painter, graphic artist, sculptor, set designer, composer and author. He is regarded as a co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism (Wiener Schule des Phantastischen Realismus). As a child, he received his first lessons in painting and drawing from the painter and restorer Alois Schiemann. He then studied sculpture and painting under Emmy Steinböck and Fritz Fröhlich at the St. Anna School of Painting in Vienna. The young Ernst Fuchs’s favourite painter was the Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens. From 1946 to 1950 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, first under Robin Christian Andersen and then under Albert Paris Gütersloh. In 1949 he held his first solo exhibition in Paris, where he moved in 1950. He travelled to America, Italy, Spain and England, and in 1957 spent a long period at the Dormition Monastery on Mount Zion in Israel, where he worked on icon painting. In 1962 he returned to Vienna and was appointed a professor at the Academy. 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 realised his architectural ideas centred on the Nymphaeum Omega fountain. In the 1970s, he created sculptures and opera sets for *Parsifal*, *The Magic Flute* and *Lohengrin*, as well as philosophical essays and poetry. Fuchs sang and performed mystical songs and recited texts in which he also expressed his spiritual ideas. In the 1980s, his biblical, mystical and astrological works were exhibited in Austria, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia. He maintained friendships with, amongst others, Salvador Dalí, Arno Breker, Mati Klarwein, Leonor Fini and Eva Nagy. In the 1990s, he designed several buildings, such as the parish church in Thal and a hotel complex in St. Veit an der Glan. Fuchs’s works are initially characterised by a surrealist and Mannerist style; religious and mystical symbols frequently feature in his work. According to his own account, many of his works are based on visionary experiences. Other artists and styles: Wolfgang Hutter, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner, Anton Lehmden, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Arnulf Rainer, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Alois Schiemann, Emmy Steinböck, Fritz Fröhlich, Helmut Leherb, Fritz Janschka, Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, Otto Wagner Villa, Nymphäum Omega, Ernst Fuchs Museum, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Surrealism, Icon painting, Dormitio Abbey Mount Zion, Universal artist PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price comprises the highest bid plus the buyer’s premium, VAT and, where applicable, the artists’ resale rights fee and platform fee. In the case of standard taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13 per cent (20 per cent for photographs) is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer’s premium and the platform fee. The buyer’s premium amounts to 28 per cent in the case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
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Auction time 09/30/2026 at 10:00 AM
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