Artist Signatures

Fritz Wotruba

Fritz Wotruba (1907 - 1975) was active/lived in Austria.  Fritz Wotruba is known for Cubist figurative sculpture. geometric abstraction.

Fritz Wotruba (23 April 1907, Vienna – 28 August 1975, Vienna) was an Austrian sculptor of Czecho-Hungarian descent. He was considered one of the most notable sculptors of the 20th century in Austria. In his work, he increasingly dissolves figurative components in favor of geometrical abstraction with the shape of the cube as the basic form.

Fritz Wotruba was born in 1907 as the youngest of eight children of Adolf Wotruba (who came from Bohemia to work as a tailor's assistant) and Maria Wotruba, née Kocsi (from Hungary, working as a maid), in Vienna. Adolf was an alcoholic and violent, often beating his sons and his wife - as described in the auto-biography of Elias Canetti, Das Augenspiel, who befriended him in 1933, writing a very positive assessment of his work in 1954.

His eldest brother was imprisoned for armed robbery and murder, and died in prison at Stein on the Danube. Fritz, the youngest, was spared from his father's wrath but was kept under close surveillance   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4027 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 434 auction lots for Fritz Wotruba (of which 315 auction records sold and 1 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 0 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Fritz Wotruba as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Fritz Wotruba in 0 of its research Essays. Fritz Wotruba has 5 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Fritz Wotruba available:    Josef Pillhofer,  Alfred Hrdlicka,  Helmut Middendorf,  Domenico Gnoli,  Joannis Avramidis,  Franz Ringel,  Hans Staudacher,  Andreas Urteil,  Alois Riedl,  Oswald Oberhuber,  Josef Mikl,  Hubert Schmalix,  Peter Sengl,  Bruno Gironcoli,  Adolf Richard Fleischmann,  Max Weiler,  Otto Muehl,  Franz Zulow,  Alfons Walde,  Gunter Damisch,  Eduard Angeli,  Adolf Frohner,  Robert Zeppel-Sperl,  Hans Richter