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Kopf
Head
Gesamtansicht, Vorderseite
Head
Fritz Wotruba, Kopf, 1962 und 1965, Carrara Marmor, 41 × 14,5 × 25 cm, 17 kg, Belvedere, Wien, Inv.-Nr. FW 1458
© Belvedere, Wien
Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien
This is the English text for C. Contact: Reproabteilung.

  • Head

  • Date1962 and 1965
    • Artist Fritz Wotruba (1907 Wien – 1975 Wien)
  • Object typeHead (sculpture)
  • MediumCarrara marble
  • Dimensions
    41 × 14,5 × 25 cm, 17 kg
  • SignatureMonogram on the plinth on the reverse: FW [carved]
  • Inventory numberFW 1458
  • Location Belvedere 21

  • Over the course of his career—from the late 1920s to 1975—Austrian sculptor Fritz Wotruba produced some fifty head sculptures, alongside figures and stage models. While in his relatively few portraits he sought to capture the individuality of his subjects, many others are conceived as anonymous, typified forms. In the 1960s, he created abstract heads aligned with the tectonic language of his work during this period. With its layered, slab-like structure, this Carrara marble head shifts, depending on light and viewpoint, between the appearance of a figure and that of architecture.
    • Nachlass Fritz Wotruba
    • 2011 Dauerleihgabe Fritz Wotruba Privatstiftung. – 2021 Übertragung nach Auflösung der Fritz Wotruba Privatstiftung
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