Wolfgang Hutter, Austrian Psychedelic Abstract Fire Tower Water Tower Silkscreen Wolfgang Hutter, 1974

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Fire Tower Water Tower (1974) Silkscreen Lithograph by Wolfgang Hutter Wolfgang Hutter (1928 – 2014) was a painter, draughtsman, printmaker … Read more Fire Tower Water Tower (1974) Silkscreen Lithograph by Wolfgang Hutter Wolfgang Hutter (1928 – 2014) was a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and stage designer. Hutter's imagery is characterised by an artificial paradise of gardens and surrealist fantastical fairytale-like scenes. His work is said to have been influenced by his psychedelic experiences. Hutter was born in Vienna, Austria. With Jewish origins, the son of the artist Albert Paris Gütersloh, Hutter studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Professor Robin C. Andersen and then under his father Together with Ernst Fuchs, Maître Leherb (Helmut Leherb), Rudolf Hausner, Fritz Janschka, Anton Lehmden and Arik Brauer, In 1946 Rudolf hausner founded a surrealist group together with Edgar Jené Ernst Fuchs, Wolfgang Hutter and Fritz Janschka. They are later joined by Arik Brauer and Anton Lehmden. He became a founding member of a group of artists who met at the Vienna Art Club, a collective which would later become known as the Viennese School of Fantastic Realists or the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. Brauer describes the predominant climate of the time as follows: ​“In the late forties, a belated surrealism was still too modern for Austria." Hutter was awarded the UNESCO Prize at the Venice Biennale in 1954. In 1966, he was appointed a professorship at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. According to Friedensreich Hundertwasser it was Wolfgang Hutter who discovered him. "Wolfgang Hutter saw at the Christmas exhibition "Good Pictures for Everyone", where it was on sale for 300 schillings, and he nominated me to be a new member of the Art Club, to which I was admitted one year later. It can thus be justifiably said that it was Wolfgang Hutter who was the first to discover me for the world of art". His work blends legend with fantasy in bold acid colors in a colorful outsider art visionary genre. Bibliography O. Breicha, Wolfgang Hutter – Werkkatalog, Vienna 1977. Tatowierung. (Foreword Alfred Schmeller) Verlag Grasl, Baden b. Wien 1965 Berichte aus einer anderen Welt (Introduction Otto Breicha) Waldheim-Eberle Verlagshaus, Wien 1967 Auflage in zwei Bande (1. "Malerei und Zeichnung; Schriften zu "Kunst und Urwelt" (Preface A. P. Gutersloh). Graphik; "Über sich selbst nachzudenken" (in Conversation with Wolfgang Hutter), Essay und Werkkatalog Otto Breicha. Verlag Jugend und Volk, Wien— München 1977 Zauberflote (Monographie über das gleichnamige Portfolio, mit einem beigelegten Text "Zur Zauberflöte" von Wolfgang Hutter), Euro-Art-Bucherkreis GmbH, Wien 1974 Feder Menschen (with an introduction by Wolfgang Hutter) (Self-published.) References Steven Beller, Vienna and the Jews, 1867–1938: A Cultural History, Cambridge University Press (1990) See less