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Ernst Fuchs
Ernst Fuchs (13 February – 9 November ) was an Austrian painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, architect, stage designer, composer, poet, singer and one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. In , he acquired the derelict Otto Wagner Villa in Htteldorf, which he restored and transformed. The villa was inaugurated as the Ernst Fuchs Museum in
Fuchs studied sculpture with Emmy Steinbock (), attended the St. Anna Painting School where he studied under Professor Frhlich (), and entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna () where he began his studies under Professor Robin C. Anderson, later moving to the class of Albert Paris von Gtersloh.
At the Academy, he met Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner, 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 was also a founding member of the Art-Club (), as well as the Hundsgruppe, set up in opposition to it in , together with Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Arnulf Rainer. Fuchs died at the age of 85 on November 9,
Fuch's work of this period was influenced by the art of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele and then by Max Pechstein, Heinrich Campendonck, Edvard Munch, Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso
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Ernst Fuchs ()
Ernst Fuchs was born in Vienna. He was interned in a transit camp for part of World War II, due to his father being Jewish, but his mother, being Christian, had him baptised which saved him from becoming one of the victims of the Nazi Holocaust. After the war he attended the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna where he met fellow students Arik Brauer, Fritz Janschka, Wolfgang Hutter, Anton Lehmden, as well as the somewhat older Rudolf Hausner.
One of his early paintings is his 'Crucification and self portrait with Inge beside the Cross'. Inge was fellow artist Inge Pace, whose strong Christian religious devotion made an impact on Fuchs. In some of this small group, painting in much the same style, then thought of as a branch of surrealism, held an exhibition in the foyer of the Vienna Concert Hall. Their works were removed after a public outcry. Teaching at the Academy focussed on the techniques of the Old Masters. Fuchs revived the old mixed technique of underpainting in tempera then adding glazes of oil paint on top. This produced a luminosity to his paintings and also allowed very detailed imagery.
The lack of any positive response from the Vienna art world and his inability to earn a living from his art led him to move t