Ernst Fuchs (artist)

Ernst Fuchs ( born February 13, 1930 in Vienna) is an Austrian painter, architect, graphic designer and musician. He is considered one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.

Life

Ernst Fuchs was born the only child of Maximilian and Leopoldine Fuchs in Vienna, on the paternal side his ancestors were of Jewish origin. When his grandfather Siegmund in the U.S. and his father after the "Anschluss " of Austria 1938/39, had to emigrate to Shanghai, he was baptized a Roman Catholic after anti- Semitic hostility 1942. From about 1942 Fuchs received first instruction in drawing and painting by the painter and restorer Alois Schiemann, the brother of his godmother. By the age of fifteen he received instruction in sculpture and painting with Emmy Steinbock and Fritz Fröhlich at the painting school of St. Anna in Vienna.

From 1946 to 1950 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, first under Robin Andersen, then Albert Gütersloh. His first solo exhibition was in Paris in 1949, where he moved in 1950. This was followed up to 1956 trips to America, Italy, Spain and England. In 1957 he wrote a considerable time in the Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion (Israel ) and focused on icon painting. In 1962 he returned to Vienna, where he became a professor. He is, together with Wolfgang Hutter, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner and Anton Lehmden the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. In 1972 he acquired the Otto Wagner Villa and began with the Nymphaeum Omega fountain with the realization of his architectural ideas. The renovated building now serves as a "private Ernst Fuchs Museum " and the venue. The villa which once served him as a studio, Fox no longer inhabited today. The artist lives and works since 1988 in Monaco.

His initial surrealist, later Mannerist works frequently have a religious or mythological symbolism. According to the statements in his book " Architectura Caelestis " are based many of his motifs on visionary experience. Originated in Paris, influenced by Flemish painting, numerous iconographic work. Three of these works later formed the altarpiece of the Rosary Church in Vienna - baiting village.

From the 1970s derived sculpture and some opera equipment ( Parsifal and The Magic Flute in Hamburg, Lohengrin in Munich). Mozart's Magic Flute, he should equip again in 1996. Also still in the 1970s created poetry and philosophical essays.

Fuchs sings and plays a mystically inspired records, including the albums " From Yahweh" ( songs about the Tetragrammaton YHWH ) and " Via Dolorosa ", and often works with musicians, where he also translates as a singer his spiritual motives. For example, the album " aphrica " with Klaus Schulze (1983 ), which he lack of artistic accordance withdraws later. More cooperation, inter alia, with Chris Karrer of Amon Düül II in 1994 and publication of DoCD " Mystic chants ".

In the 1990s, Fox was increasingly active as an artistic designer of buildings ( St. James Church in Thal near Graz, resort hotel located in St. Veit an der Glan ), with its fantastic architecture struck particularly by the use of strong colors and lush ornamentation.

Modern works of Fuchs, the founding to the present biblical, mystical, or astrological motifs were seen since the 1980s at exhibitions in Austria, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and other countries.

Fuchs used friendships with Salvador Dalí, Arno Breker, Mati Klarwein, Leonor Fini, Eva Nagy and many other artists. 1975 Fox the youngest of the artists friendship, which proclaimed Salvador Dalí: "We are the Golden Triangle of Art: Dalí Breker -Fuchs. You can contact us as you want, we are always on top. "

1982 Fox designed a BMW 635 CSi. The BMW Art Car is called by him " fire fox hunting rabbits ."

1987 portrayed Ernst Fuchs Falco. The dialogue, the two led during painting, was recorded and broadcast to mark the 50th birthday of Falco in the ORF.

2005 portrayed the director and producer Jürgen Haase Ernst Fuchs in the documentary Through the Eyes of the Soul. Street singer and Kaiser would I be.

Awards

Quotes about Fuchs

" What stands out to Fox, his high intelligence, his enormous erudition and his sparkling imagination, which is poured out like a long pent-up source and all are carried along in enthusiasm; it never seems to dry up. In him we have a culture of three thousand years of origin prior to which he represented in his works. "

Works (selection)

  • Parish Church of St. Jacob in Thal
  • Rosenkranz Triptych in the parish church Hetzendorf
  • Moses Fountain in Baernbach
  • Commemorative stamp in 1982, Modern Art as part of the sentence in Austria

Books and CDs

  • Ernst Fuchs: Architectura Caelestis - Pictures of the lost style, paperback, 223 pp., with 15 partially colored panels and numerous illustrations in the text, 1966
  • Album of the Fuchs family (Salzburg: Residence, 1973)
  • Under the Sign of the Sphinx: Fonts and Images, ed Walter Schurian (Munich, Dtv, 1978)
  • Aura: A tale of longing (Munich: Dtv, 1981)
  • The Prophet of the Beautiful: Arno Breker (Marco, 1982)
  • From Yahweh: Poems (Munich, 1982)
  • Ernst Fuchs: Fantastic life. Memories. 1st edition Berlin 2001. ISBN 3-463-40401- X
  • Mystical Songs ( double CD)
  • Dervish Kiss ( CD by and starring Chris Karrer )
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