!!!Wiener Schule des Phantastischen Realismus

Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, name coined by the art critic J. 
Muschik for a particular Austrian art movement inspired by surrealism. 
Main representatives include A.  Brauer, E.  Fuchs, R.  Hausner, W.  
Hutter and A.  Lehmden. The teacher and "father" of the group was 
A. P.  Guetersloh; the artists who later formed a group were his 
students at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Within the  Art-Club, the 
"fantasts" stood up especially against abstract art. Their manner of 
painting was heavily influenced by the technical perfection of the 
classical masters (P. Breughel, H. Bosch, Danube School, Piero de la 
Francesca) and psycho-analysis was of particular importance for their 
work. With their first exhibition (the Vienna School of Fantastic 
Realism) at Belvedere Palace in Vienna in 1959, which was soon 
followed by further exhibitions abroad, had already laid the 
foundation for their international importance. Their art gained 
widespread success due to large editions of graphic reproductions and 
because of their large, if somewhat fluctuating, following of students 
and imitators.

!Literature
J. Muschik, Die Wiener Schule des Phantastischen 
Realismus, 1974; "Die Phantasten", exhibition-catalogue, Vienna 1990.


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