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Small Reclining Figure

Kleine Liegende
Small Reclining Figure
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Small Reclining Figure
Fritz Wotruba, Kleine Liegende, 1960, Bronze, 11,5 × 52 × 13 cm, Belvedere, Wien, Inv.-Nr. FW 311
© Belvedere, Wien
Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien
This is the English text for C. Contact: Reproabteilung.

  • Small Reclining Figure

  • Date1960
    • Artist Fritz Wotruba (1907 Wien – 1975 Wien)
  • Object typePlastic
  • MediumBronze
  • Dimensions
    11,5 × 52 × 13 cm
  • SignatureNumbered and signed on the reverse: 3/7 / FW 51 [stamped]
  • Inventory numberFW 311
  • Location Currently not on display

  • Fritz Wotruba, one of the leading Austrian sculptors of international postwar modernism, developed a series of figures in the early 1960s, built on the cube as their basic element. Unlike in earlier years, the individual blocks no longer align with how the human body is organized. Instead, he layered and stacked various cubic forms at oblique angles, softened by rounded edges and flowing lines. In the summer of 1948, the view of Marseille from the sea left a lasting impression on Wotruba and shaped his ideal of “a sculpture in which landscape, architecture, and city are one.” He would realize his vision years later in "Small Reclining Figure".
    • Nachlass Fritz Wotruba
    • 2011 Dauerleihgabe Fritz Wotruba Privatstiftung. – 2021 Übertragung nach Auflösung der Fritz Wotruba Privatstiftung
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