!!!Bertoni, Wander

b. Codisotto (Italy), Oct. 11, 1925, sculptor, 1943 as a foreign 
worker was deported to Vienna so that his work could be exploited; 
1947 founding member of the  Art-Club. Studied at the Vienna Academy 
of Fine Arts under F.  Wotruba. From 1965 professor at the School of 
Applied Art in Vienna. Initially creating archaic figures, B.´s 
work grew abstract by degrees until he later developed a symbolic 
style of figure showing pronounced organic forms.

!Works
Bewegung, outside the Vienna Stadthalle; Ikarus, Vienna 
Airport; reliefs in the Vienna State Opera; 2 statues for the Salzburg 
Festival Hall; works in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the USA.

!Literature
K. Sotriffer, Das plastische Werk W. B., 1981.


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