Vienna School of Fantastic Realism

The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism is a in the 1950s, coined by Johann muzhik term for a flow in Austrian art, which has close ties to surrealism.

The painting is not abstracted or abstract and oriented to the technical perfection of the Old Masters, the motifs are fantastic and unreal creations, sometimes shocking, apocalyptic content, often with a focus on mannerism. From the first joint exhibition in Vienna's Belvedere in 1959, the other exhibitions followed abroad soon, the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism achieved their breakthrough to international importance. A special wide appeal reached their art on prints in large numbers as well as by numerous students and imitators.

As the founder of the Viennese painter applies, writer and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Albert Paris Gütersloh. As a guiding spirit of the Vienna School is also true of the surrealist painter Edgar Jené, the post-war period (1945-1950) became the sponsor and promoter of surrealism in Vienna. A key motivation for the found of Johann muzhik designation as " Fantastic Realism " was in the other first is to take the estimated term of the Stalinist cultural doctrine of realism in claim, and to avoid the unwelcome in this policy area expressed surrealism. Other critics judged the popular Viennese school of painting compared to the Cold War forced from the western side of Abstract Expressionism and later the Vienna activism as outdated and obsolete.

One of the main representatives include Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, Anton Lehmden and Gütersloh son Wolfgang Hutter, and the second generation Kurt Regschek, Herbert Benedict, Francis Luby (1902-1989), Peter Proksch and Leherb ( Helmut Leherbauer ).

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