Ernst Fuchs (b. February 13, 1930) February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ...

Austrian painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, architect, stage designer, composer, poet and singer. Son of Maximillian and Leopoldine Fuchs. Studied sculpture with Emmy Steinbock in 1943. In 1944 he attended the St. Anna Painting School where he studied under Prof. Fröhlich. He entered the Acad. of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1945 where he began his studies under Prof. Robin C. Anderson, later moving to the class of Albert Paris von Gütersloh. There he met Arik Bauer, Rudolf Hausner, 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 founder-member of the Art-Club (1946), as well as the the Hundsgruppe, the group that set up in opposition to it in 1951, together with Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Arnulf Rainer. His 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 Picasso. Adopting the old masters misch(e) technik (mixed technique) of resin oil and egg tempera painting he sought to achieve and revive the precise techniques of old masters such as Albrecht Altdorfer, Albrecht Dürer, Matthias Grünewald and Martin Schongauer, who served as his examples. Hausner, Rudolf (born Vienna, 4 Dec 1914 - died Vienna, 25 Feb 1995). ... Wolfgang Hutter (b. ... Lehmden, Anton (b. ... The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism was a group of artists formed in Austria in 1946. ... Friedensreich Hundertwasser, born Friedrich Stowasser (December 15, 1928, Vienna - February 19, 2000, on board the Queen Elizabeth II near New Zealand), was an Austrian artist and architect. ... Arnulf Rainer Arnulf Rainer, (born 8 December 1929 in Baden, Austria), is an Austrian painter and is internationally renowned for his abstract informal art. ... Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of Vienna Art Nouveau (Vienna Secession) movement. ... Egon Schiele (June 12, 1890 - October 30, 1918), an Austrian painter, son of Marie and Adolph Schiele, was born in Tulln, a small town on the Danube. ... Self portrait, 1895 Edvard Munch (December 12, 1863 – January 23, 1944) was a Norwegian expressionist painter and printmaker. ... Reclining Figure (1951) is characteristic of Moores sculptures, with an abstract female figure intercut with voids. ... A young Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso, formally Pablo Ruiz Picasso, (October 25, 1881 - April 8, 1973) was one of the recognized masters of 20th century art. ... The Battle of Alexander (1529) Wood, 158,4 x 120,3 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Albrecht Altdorfer (c. ... Self-Portrait, 1493, Oil on Canvas Albrecht Dürer (May 21, 1471 - April 6, 1528) was a German painter, wood carver, engraver, and mathematician. ... The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, by Matthias Grunewald Matthias Grünewald (c1470-1528) is one of the greatest figures in German Renaissance art. ...

In his autobiographical sketch (Ernst Fuchs: Biographia Mythomanica in Helmut Weiss Ernst Fuchs: Das graphische Werk, Vienna 1967, p. 7ff) Fuchs describes his father’s scrap yard situated on the south side of Vienna where, as a child before the war, he found beautiful old books and prints which instilled in him a love of decoration, heraldic symbols like the Austrian double-eagle, for fine paper, engravings and woodcuts. Here he found scrap brass plates on which he produced his first etchings. These discoveries fired his imagination and had a lasting influence on him during these formative years, which can be traced throughout his oeuvre. Encouraged by his parents Fuchs’ imagination was allowed free reign. He drew from and early age and was considered a child prodigy.

Between 1950 and 1961 Fuchs lived mostly in Paris and made a number of journeys to the USA and Israel. His favourite reading material at the time is the sermons of Meister Eckehart. He also studies the symbolism of the alchemists and reads Jung’s Psychology of Alchemy. His favourite examples at the time are the mannerists, especially Jacques Callot, and is also very much influenced by Jan Van Eyck and Jean Fouquet. In 1958 he founded the Galerie Fuchs-Fischoff in Vienna to promote and support the younger painters of the Fantastic Realist school. Together with Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Arnulf Rainer he founded the Pintorarium. The Alchemist. ... Jacques Callot (c. ... Jan van Eyck (1385? - 1441) was a 15th century Flemish painter and one of the first to popularize oil paint. ... Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels (c. ... Friedensreich Hundertwasser, born Friedrich Stowasser (December 15, 1928, Vienna - February 19, 2000, on board the Queen Elizabeth II near New Zealand), was an Austrian artist and architect. ... Arnulf Rainer Arnulf Rainer, (born 8 December 1929 in Baden, Austria), is an Austrian painter and is internationally renowned for his abstract informal art. ...

In 1956 he converted to Catholicism (his mother had had him baptized during the war in order to save him from being sent to a concentration camp). In 1957 he entered the Dormittio Monastery on Mount Zion, where he began work on his monumental Last Supper and devoted himself to producing small sized paintings on religious themes such as Moses and the Burning Bush ..., culminating in a commission to paint three altar paintings on parchment, the cycle of the Mysteries of the Holy Rosary (1958-61), for the Rosenkranzkirche in Hetzendorf, Vienna. He also deals with contemporary issues in his masterpiece of this period Psalm 69, 1949-60 (see Fuchs, 1978, p. 53). This article considers Catholicism in the broadest ecclesiastical sense. ...

He returned to Vienna in 1961 and had a vision of what he called the ’verschollener Stil’ (The Hidden Prime of Styles), the theory of which he set out in his inspired and grandiose book Architectura Caelestis: Die Bilder des verschollenen Stils (Salzburg, 1966). He also produced several important cycles of prints, such as Unicorn (1950-52), Samson (1960-64), Esther (1964-7) and Sphinx (1966-7; all illustrated in Weis). In 1972 he acquires the derelict Otto Wagner Villa in Hetzendorf, which he restores and transforms. The villa is inaugurated as the Ernst Fuchs Museum in 1988. From 1970 he embarked on numerous sculptural works such as Queen Esther (h. 2.63 m, 1972), located at the entrance to the museum (see below) and mounted on the Cadillac at the entrance to the Dalí Museum in...  The gentle and pensive virgin has the power to tame the unicorn, in this fresco in Palazzo Farnese, Rome, probably by Domenichino, ca 1602 The unicorn is a legendary creature shaped like a horse, but slender and with a single — usually spiral — horn growing out of its forehead. ... Samson or Shimshon (שִׁמְשׁוֹן Of the sun (perhaps proclaiming he was radiant and mighty) or [One who] Serves [God], Standard Hebrew Šimšon, Tiberian Hebrew Šimšôn) is the third to last of the Judges of Israel mentioned in the Tanakh. ... The Great Sphinx of Giza, with the Pyramid of Khafre in the background. ...

From 1974 he became involved in designing stage sets and costumes for the operas of Mozart and Richard Wagner including The Magic Flute, Parsifal and Lohengrin... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was one of the most significant and influential of all composers of Western classical music. ... Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 – February 13, 1883) was an influential German composer, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his groundbreaking symphonic-operas (or music dramas). His compositions are notable for their continuous contrapuntal texture, rich harmonies and orchestration, and elaborate use of leitmotifs: themes associated... Die Zauberflöte (English title: The Magic Flute) is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with libretto in German by Emanuel Schikaneder. ... Parsifal is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. ... Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. ...

In 1993 Fuchs was given a retrospective exhibition at the State Museum in St. Petersburg...

WRITINGS Architectura caelestis: die Bilder des verschollenen Stils (Salzburg: Residenz, 1966/Pb ed., Dtv, 1973)

Album der Familie Fuchs (Salzburg: Residenz, 1973)

Im Zeichen der Sphinx: Schriften und Bilder, ed. Walter Schurian (Munich, Dtv, 1978)

Aura: Ein Marchen der Sehnsucht (Munich: Dtv, 1981)

Der Prophet des Schonen: Arno Breker (Marco, 1982)

Von Jahwe: Gedichte (Munich, 1982)

BIBLIOGRAPHY Ernst Fuchs: Zeichnungen und Graphiken, (Ketterer-Kunst, 1967)

H. Weis, ed.: Ernst Fuchs: Das graphische Werk (Vienna, 1967)

Ernst Fuchs: Homage à Böcklin, (Frankf./Main/Geneva/Vienna, 1971)

Ernst Fuchs: oeuvre gravé (Friburg: Musee d’art et d’histoire, 1975)

Fuchs über Ernst Fuchs: Bilder und Zeichnungen von 1945-1976, ed. R.P. Hartmann (Paris, 1977)

Ernst Fuchs: Arbeiten für der Hamburger Staatsoper, (Hamburg 1977)

R. P. Hartmann, ed.: Ernst Fuchs: Das graphische Werk, 1967-1980 (Munich, 1980)

Ernst Fuchs: Bildalchemie, (Osnabrück: Kulturgesichtliches Mus., c1981)

Gedichte von Jahwe (Munich: R. P. Hartmann, 1982) U. Hotzy, Ernst Fuchs: die Werke aus den Jahren im Ausland (Salzburg, Univ., Diss., 1982)

Fuchs Graphik: Sydows Katalog einer idealen Sammlung, ed., Heinrich v. Sydow-Zirkwitz (Berlin: Studio 69, 1983)

Planeta Caelestis (Berlin and Munich, 1987)

Der Feuerfuchs, ed. R.P. Hartmann (Frankf./Main: Umschau Verlag, 1988)

Ernst Fuchs und Wein, (Landau/Pfalz: Verein Südliche Weinstarasse, 1995)