/internal/media/dispatcher/162472/fullLarge Seated Figure ("Human Cathedral")1949[Fritz Wotruba]Fritz WotrubaMannersdorf limestone 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.Sculpture© Belvedere, Wienhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/3524/rdf