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The City

Die Stadt
The City
Gesamtansicht, Vorderseite
The City
Ernst Fuchs, Die Stadt, 1946, Bleistift auf Papier , 89,5 × 62,5 cm, Artothek des Bundes, Dauerleihgabe im Belvedere, Wien, Belvedere, Wien, Inv.-Nr. Lg 2173
© Bildrecht, Wien 2026
Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien
This is the English text for C. Contact: Reproabteilung.

  • The City

  • Date1946
    • Artist Ernst Fuchs (1930 Wien – 2015 Wien)
  • Object typeDrawing
  • MediumBleistift auf Papier
  • Dimensions
    89,5 × 62,5 cm
  • Inventory numberLg 2173
  • Location Belvedere 21
  • Credit LineArtothek des Bundes, Dauerleihgabe im Belvedere, Wien

  • Made in the immediate aftermath of World War II, the apocalyptic drawing The City by sixteen-year-old Ernst Fuchs not only conveys the trauma, devastation, and destruction of the years that preceded it. It can also be interpreted as a new artistic beginning, expressed in a deliberate reconnection with prewar tendencies that had previously been branded as “degenerate.” For Fuchs, the central venues for engaging with Surrealism in Vienna were Albert Paris Gütersloh’s master class at the Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Club, from which the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism emerged. As a prominent representative of this internationally acclaimed movement, Fuchs adopted formal innovations from Surrealism and Magical Realism of the 1920s but combined them with a painting technique inspired by the technical precision of the Old Masters to create his fantastical and enigmatic pictorial worlds.
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