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Large Seated Figure ("Human Cathedral")
Date1949

Artist Fritz Wotruba (1907 Wien – 1975 Wien)

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Object typeSeated statue
MediumMannersdorf limestone
Dimensions
153 × 79 × 73 cm, 510 kg
Signatureunsigned
Inventory number4769
Location Currently not on display
After seven years of exile in Switzerland, Fritz Wotruba returned to Vienna in December 1945 at a decisive moment of his artistic development. The sculptor, who would play a central role in Austrian and international postwar modernist sculpture, abandoned the restrained stylization of his earlier years and developed a new concept of composing the figure. Drawing on French Cubism yet demonstrating an independent design principle, this approach moves toward abstraction and a tectonic, and almost planar organization while remaining faithful to the basic form of the human figure. Visible traces of the sculptor’s hand give the strictly frontal, monumental composition a rugged, rock-like appearance, emphasizing the material presence of the stone.

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1954 Tausch mit Künstler, Wien

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