Home»Art, Austria»Otto Wagner/Ernst Fuchs Villa, November 2018

In my view Ernst Fuchs, the Fantastic Realist, managed to haul the Art Nouveau/Jugendstil/Secession tradition over the World War II rampart into the second part of the twentieth century. In the process this tradition has lost its naïve innocence and was bruised by eroticism and commercialism but still maintained its audacious vigor. The curvaceous female forms of Fuchs cause viewer’s smile, nevertheless they harken back to the taut floral curves of Art Nouveau. They conjure up sweet memories and extend Vienna’s beauty from the end of the nineteenth century into the twenty first.