Fuchs, Ernst

(2/13/1930 Vienna- ) (Austria)

   Oil painter, watercolorist, draughtsman, print-maker, sculptor, architect, stage designer, composer, poet, singer, and etcher. Studied at the Akademie der bildenden Kunst in Vienna under Gutersloh. Known as a "fantastic realist," a founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. Reproductions: Clothing of Ester; 1965; aquatint; Ohff, 1970: p. 46 . Die Entzweiung; 1970; Frisch, 1981: p. 53 [B]. Marriage of the sun and moon; engraving; Kronhausen, 1968: p. 130 [B]. Putto's dream; 1966; Gorsen, 1970: p. 1642 [B]. Rest of a ballerina; 1970; pastel; Smith, 1980: p. 92 . The rose; 1966; gouache; Smith, 1980: p. 93 [C]. Sphinx; oil; Smith, 1974: pp. 154-155. Tangled dream of love; 1965; gouache; Gorsen, 1970: fig. 1644 [B] / Smith, 1980: pp. 90-91 [C]. [Untitled]; engraving; Kronhausen, 1968: p. 131 [B].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 5: pp. 1156-1157; DoA vol. 11: pp. 812-813; Marita Kochs, "Ernst Fuchs," Sexualmedizin 9, 12 (December 1980): p. 523; Vollmer II 1955: p. 172.