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Small Torso III

Kleiner Torso III
Small Torso III
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Small Torso III
Fritz Wotruba, Kleiner Torso III, 1971, Bronze, 30,5 × 28,5 × 26,5 cm, Belvedere, Wien, Inv.-Nr. FW 1473
© Belvedere, Wien
Foto: Belvedere, Wien
This is the English text for C. Contact: Reproabteilung.

  • Small Torso III

  • Date1971
    • Artist Fritz Wotruba (1907 Wien – 1975 Wien)
  • Object typeTorso
  • MediumBronze
  • Dimensions
    30,5 × 28,5 × 26,5 cm
  • SignatureSigned and numbered on the plinth on the reverse: WOTRVBA 2/7 [stamped]
  • Inventory numberFW 1473
  • Location Currently not on display

  • In his final years, from 1969 onward, Fritz Wotruba—one of the most significant sculptors of international postwar modernism—returned to human figures reduced to their basic elements. Earlier in his career, he had constructed dynamic, strictly architectural figures by stacking and layering cubes and slab-like elements. His later work conveys a renewed, organic sensuality, defined by a return to basic, anthropomorphic structures; bone-like elements; deep incisions instead of joints, and a sculpturally worked surface. This new corporeality relates to Wotruba’s lifelong engagement with Michelangelo, which he intensified in his final years.
    • Nachlass Fritz Wotruba
    • 2011 Dauerleihgabe Fritz Wotruba Privatstiftung. – 2021 Übertragung nach Auflösung der Fritz Wotruba Privatstiftung
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