Wolfgang Hutter - vendere e comprare opere
13 December 1928, Vienna (Austria) – 26 September 2014, Vienna (Austria)
The Austrian painter Wolfgang Hutter is known as a co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. His staged compositions depicting enchanted gardens and fabulous female figures also reveal a Surrealist influence.
Wolfgang Hutter found an important mentor in his father, the painter Albert Paris Gütersloh, who taught his son at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and was a lasting influence on his style. As early as 1947, one of his paintings was presented at the ‘Große Österreichische Kunstausstellung’ at the Vienna Künstlerhaus. Hutter was a founding member of the Art Club. In an Art Club exhibition held at Zedlitzhalle in Vienna in 1948, the formal language to become known as that of the ‘Vienna School of Fantastic Realism’, which was, among others, also propagated by Ernst Fuchs and Rudolf Hausner, manifested itself for the first time.
In addition, Hutter was a teacher at the Vienna University of Applied Arts for about thirty years. As an artist he mostly produced oil paintings and watercolours of fantastic realms populated by creatures from fairy tales and puppet-like female figures. Hutter’s artistic intention was to render his fantastic magic gardens credible through technical perfection and precision. Moreover, numerous set designs and such famous works as the lithographed cycle ‘Tattoos’ (1965) and the prints for ‘The Magic Flute’ (1974) attest to his extraordinary artistic skills. His mosaic ‘Evening’ on the façade of the Dag Hammarskjöld housing estate in Vienna’s Floridsdorf district and his famous wall painting ‘From Night to Day’ at the Salzburg Festspielhaus are considered masterpieces.
Wolfgang Hutter, awarded the City of Vienna’s Prize for Painting (1977) and Medal of Honour in Gold (2011), was represented at the Biennales of Venice (1950, 1964), Sao Paulo (1953, 1963), Tokyo (1961), and Florence (1975). Hutter’s works were on view in numerous exhibitions, collections, and museums in Europe, the Americas, and Japan. In 2008, the Belvedere presented a large retrospective devoted to Fantastic Realism.