Sculpture "Adam Well Protected", bronze on marble pedestal
Sculpture "Adam Well Protected", bronze on marble pedestal
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limited, 1,250 copies | numbered | signed | bronze + marble | handmade | patinated | partly polished | size 13 x 11 x 10 cm (w/h/d) | total height 20 cm | weight approx. 2 kg
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Sculpture "Adam Well Protected", bronze on marble pedestal
Rudolf Hausner is the most important representative of the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism. His sculpture "Adam Well Protected" is a gem. With an overall height of 20 cm, the sculpture shines through the density of its design. The richly detailed head, whose heights and depths are modelled by light and shadow, is patinated in a rich matt brown. A strange headdress with elements of turban and boatman's cap surrounds the head and outshines it in brightest gold like a halo. On the back, Adam's headgear in its mirror finish looks like a convex cobbler's sphere in which the environment has gathered in miniature.
Bronze sculpture, patinated, partially polished. Cast by hand using the Lost-Wax-Process, mounted on a pedestal of Marquinia marble. Limited edition 1,250 copies, numbered and signed. Size without pedestal 13 x 11 x 10 cm (w/h/d). Total height with pedestal 20 cm. Weight approx. 2 kg.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
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About Rudolf Hausner
1914-1995
Rudolf Hausner is considered the most outstanding representative of the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism. In the 1950s, he became famous by starting to depict himself in his works through the leitmotif figure of "Adam": "Looking into my face, I found the world in it."
Rudolf Hausner's oeuvre is unique. All attempts to classify it in the usual categories of art history are bound to fail. Years ago, Wieland Schmied declared Rudolf Hausner to be the only psychoanalytical painter because reality and subconscious are of equal value in his work. The artist created the art figure of Adam after his own spitting image. The reason was that he knew no one better than himself and was, therefore, able to convey himself more profoundly. "Painting has taught me everything I know about the world and me. I am painting myself back to the causes, to my beginnings." This is how Rudolf Hausner described his independent contribution to international surrealism.
With this leitmotif, the artist developed a figure of the late twentieth century: the curious, enlightened, perplexed, but also sceptical contemporary who wants to get to the bottom of things. Because we as viewers identifying with him, his work points beyond the individual. Hausner has succeeded in creating the collective self-portrait of modern society.
The chronology of his exhibition activities resembles a list of the cultural hotspots of this world: 1959 documenta II, Kassel; 1960 Guggenheim Museum, New York; 1963 Biennale Sao Paulo; 1980 Künstlerhaus Vienna; 1982 Gulbenkian Museum Lisbon.
In 1994, the City of Vienna honoured Rudolf Hausner, who held several professorships in Hamburg and Vienna, with a major retrospective.
Term for an art object (sculpture, installation) that, according to the artist’s intention, is produced in multiple copies within a limited and numbered edition.
Multiples enable the "democratization" of art by making the work accessible and affordable for a wider audience.
A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures made of wood, ivory, or stone are carved directly from the material block, in bronze casting, a working model is prepared at first. Usually, it is made of clay or other easily mouldable materials.
The prime time of sculpture after the Greek and Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Contemporary artists such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz also enriched sculptures with outstanding works.