During this time, seeking to achieve the vivid lighting effects achieved by such Old Masters as Albrecht Altdorfer, Albrecht Dürer, Matthias Grünewald and Martin Schongauer, he revived and adopted the mischtechnik (mixed technique) of painting. įuchs' work of this period was influenced by the art of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele and then by Max Pechstein, Heinrich Campendonk, Edvard Munch, Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso. He was also a founding member of the Art-Club (1946), as well as the Hundsgruppe, set up in opposition to it in 1951, together with Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Arnulf Rainer. Career Īt the Academy, he met Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner, Helmut Leherb, Fritz Janschka, Wolfgang Hutter, and Anton Lehmden, together with whom he later founded what has become known as the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. He entered the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (1945), where he began his studies under Professor Robin Christian Andersen, later moving to the class of Albert Paris von Gütersloh. Anna Painting School, where he studied under Fritz Fröhlich (1944). The villa was inaugurated as the Ernst Fuchs Museum in 1988.īorn in Vienna as the only child of Maximilian and Leopoldine Fuchs, Fuchs attended the St. In 1972, he acquired the derelict Otto Wagner Villa in Hütteldorf, which he restored and transformed.

Ernst Fuchs (13 February 1930 – 9 November 2015) was an Austrian painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, architect, stage designer, composer, poet, and one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.

Ernst Fuchs by Helmut Weis