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Fritz Wotruba is one of the best-known figures of 20th-century Austrian sculpture, who has Hungarian ancestry. He was born in 1907, after finishing school he opened a shop in Vienna in 1929. He creates naturist sculptures at this time, in both female and male versions. He flees from the war to Switzerland. After 1945, he was called back to Austria, where he took the sculpture master course at the Academy of Fine Arts. In the following years, he dedicated himself to the cultural reconstruction of Vienna with great commitment. The Great Standing Woman was the first sculpture he created after returning home. This work marked a turning point in his career. The sculptor only marked the basic structure of the human body, and this structurally and movement-defined design, separated from anatomy, became characteristic of Wotruba's art from then on.
Lying Figure is also one of the works of this style, it was made in the early 50s. The artist's wife, Marian Wotruba, died on August 31, 1951. The suffering due to his wife's illness and death influenced the work on the statue. In this figure, the tectonization of the human figure goes one step further: it breaks the human figure into blocks, and these elements unite in free size and form to form a new whole.
The work stands on a 180x60x80 cm artificial stone block. Actually "knowing" what it depicts and yet not. It is impossible to decide whether it is a woman, or a man, or something else.
During his lifetime, he made a monument to the grave of the Viennese opera singer Salma Kurz, which was a nude female figure that caused an uproar, which was already covered in 1934, and then hidden behind thick bushes until 1945. Many people think that this statue is actually a grave monument, and that it was made for his wife.