Fritz Wotruba: Figure

Fritz Wotruba was Austrian sculptor (23 April 1907, Vienna – 28 August 1975, Vienna). Explore interesting quotes on figure.

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“I am concerned with the figure... Equilibrium, unity.”

Fritz Wotruba

Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 6.

“I dream of a sculpture in which landscape, architecture and city are one. It might be a city like Marseille, a city steaming with heat which suddenly transmogrifies. I becomes an immense piece of sculpture, a gigantic figure, made up of white blocks and segmented by flat, horizontal terraces, arranged in a bare and motionless landscape.”

Fritz Wotruba

circa 1969
Quote of Wotruba in: 'Sculpture of Rotterdam', ed. Jan van Adrichem / Jelle Bouwhuis / Mariëtte Dulle, Center for the Art, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2002, p. 198.

Dreams

“The sudden change [Wotruba and his wife returned to Vienna in December 1945, at the end of the war; there he started to direct a class for advanced students on the Akademie der Bildenden Künste of Vienna] has had a shock effect on me and on my work. The almost sensual excitement caused by the destruction around me wears off rather quickly. It is not my duty to give this past [of Nazism and the war-years, fh] more significance than it has already been given in literature, on the stage and in the cinema. I am concerned with the figure, with the statuary, i. e., with statics, measurement, equilibrium, and with unity.”

Fritz Wotruba

Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 22.

War , Literature , Change , Past

“Further working along the lines of experiments of 1954 [toward rounded forms and columnar figures], I executed the 'Figure with upraised arms' as the crucifix for a Parish church in Salzburg.”

Fritz Wotruba

Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 29.