Hortensia Fussy
Hortensia Fussy ( born March 25, 1954 in Graz, pseudonym: Hortensia ) is an Austrian sculptor.
Life
Hortensia studied from 1970-1972 sculpture at the School of Applied Arts in Graz with Josef Pillhofer and from 1972-1975 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Fritz Wotruba. She is a freelance artist since 1975. Parallel to the plastic factory arise cycles of drawings and watercolors during numerous travels of the artist in Europe and Africa as a space paintings of landscapes, massifs and architectures (including landscape cycle Spain (1983 - 1985), Tuscany and Umbria ( 1987-1990), Portugal ( 1997), Dalmatia (1999-2002), Egypt ( 2000), Sicily (2002), Italian Dolomites ( 2003-2012 ) ). From 2003 - 2012 she leads the School of Drawing Hortensia for figure and landscape, Bad Gams, Western Styria.
Artistic activity
The focus of the work of the Austrian sculptor, draftsman and painter Hortensia is the human figure. " Hortensia Fussy is a line of development of the visual arts in Austria continued, can put you at the beginning of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele and which was continued by artists such as the painter Herbert Boeckl and the sculptor Josef Pillhofer. But the biggest influence on Hortensia Fussys artistic career should be considered by their teacher, the eminent Austrian sculptor Fritz Wotruba. "
In an early phase of work, " admits Hortensia in their work to the dawn of the third dimension a special place that exceeds the usual nexus of drawn preliminary study and executed sculpture. With figures for pictures of Piero della Francesca, Francisco de Goya, Albrecht Durer or Jan Vermeer she has this way of " spatialization " is taken in the early 1980s ", including " Figure after Goya ", 1980; "Figure after Dürer ", 1981; " Hommage a Courbet ," 1988-95.
Always is the form the central theme of Hortensia and the starting point of her artistic work. " Under the heading" Form and Figure " is Hortensia dealt with some principles on which the power absorbed by the eyes perception classified material to be detected by the human mind can ". The interplay of both terms is an access to Hortensias aesthetic imperative opens up: " Earthy, centered, sensual, and moderation should be my characters! ". "Here it comes, that the negatives, the positives that rounding, the horizontal, horizontal, diagonal, so essential dimensions of space, the so ultimately determine our vision, can change the view of things in the viewer. " Since in 2002, the artist performs a series of exhibitions under the title " form and Figure " by, among other things, in the Styrian Fire Museum, 2002; Bratislava, 2003; Washington, 2004; Moscow, 2008; Germany Castle Mountain, from 2009 to 2010.
Awards
Major permanent works (selection)
- Memorial President Rudolf Sallinger, Rudolf Sallinger, Vienna
- Caryatid, Germany Castle Mountain
- Figure after Goya, Collection, Vienna Insurance Group, Vienna Ring Tower
- Hommage a Courbet - Palais Harrach, Vienna