Fritz Wotruba Torso 1971

• City Hall, Gubelstrasse 22, 6301 Zug

EG, Eingang Ost

Fritz Wotruba is born in 1907 in Vienna, where he undergoes training as a die engraver in the 1920s before attending the sculpture course at the Kunstgewerbeschule. He develops his own artistic style early on, which initially remains close to realism before gradually beginning to dispense with detail. Wotruba’s depictions of the human form show an elongation of proportions, a feature also found in the works of his teacher Anton Hanak as well as in those of Egon Schiele, amongst others. Between 1938 and 1945, Fritz and his wife Marian Wotruba live in exile in Zug, where they maintain close relationships with Fritz and Editha Kamm, Philipp Etter, Georg Reinhart and Jean Rudolf von Salis. The numerous works by Wotruba that are now part of the Sammlung Kamm can be regarded as testimony to his friendship with the couple. In 1940, his works are exhibited by the artist group “Freie Zuger Künstler”, and his studio at Weinbergstrasse 4 is a popular meeting place for artists and intellectuals. In 1945, he returns to Vienna, where he can build on his earlier successes, heading the Meisterschule für Bildhauerei at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, and passes away in 1975. Particularly with regard to his numerous works in public spaces, Wotruba is today viewed as an important representative of geometric abstraction and Brutalism in sculpture and architecture.

Object dimensions: 48.6 x 18.8 x 28.4 cm

KS 10

• abstract

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• sculpture