Frasi di Fritz Wotruba

Fritz Wotruba è stato uno scultore e pittore austriaco di origine ceco-ungherese.

È considerato uno tra i più importanti scultori austriaci del XX secolo. La sua opera è caratterizzata dall'abbandono di ogni componente figurativa a favore dell'astrazione pura attraverso le forme geometriche solide di base.

Durante gli anni trenta Wotruba ebbe modo di fare conoscenza con intellettuali, pittori e letterati, fra i quali si annoverano Elias Canetti, Hermann Broch, Franz Theodor Csokor, Hans Erich Apostel, Herbert Boeckl, Josef Dobrowsky e Georg Merkel, Carry Hauser, Alban Berg, Robert Musil e Franz Ullmann.



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✵ 23. Aprile 1907 – 28. Agosto 1975
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Fritz Wotruba: Frasi in inglese

“There are laws which the stone imposes upon us.”

Origine: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 46.

“Solidity, rigidity, what did not yield to the pressure of the hand attracted me.”

Origine: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 88.

“Culture can flourish only under the protection of a society with aristocratic characteristics.”

Origine: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 12.

“At the present time the artists stands alone.... no ideology can be of help to him.”

Origine: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 7.

“Only a distinctive individual can produce great art. Great art is synonymous with anonymous art.”

Origine: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 73.

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

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

“Every magnitude, every dimension, requires a new configuration.”

Origine: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 10.

“Measures, weights, proportions move and change in expression and meaning.”

Origine: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 56.

“The power and force of stone reside in its mass, its weight, and its density.”

Origine: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 19.

“The hardness and immobility of material gave me more satisfaction tan true-to-life representations.”

Origine: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 9.

“Stone is the only true material for the sculptor. All others, tin, iron bars, tin cans and coiled springs are merely poor substitutes”

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

“A good piece of art must combine barbarism and culture: two unique elements…”

Origine: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 52.

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