EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN
As part of VIENNA ART WEEK, curators Verena Gamper and Gabriele Stöger-Spevak invite you to an exclusive tour of the exhibition Wotruba International at Belvedere 21. For the first time, the focus is on the international career of Fritz Wotruba (1907–75), one of the most influential sculptors of Austrian post-war modernism.
Wotruba had an international presence from the very beginning: his first solo exhibition took place in 1931 at the Museum Folkwang in Essen. This was followed by participation in documenta, biennials, expos, and important open-air exhibitions. Despite his formal abstraction, the human figure remained his central motif.
The curators provide exciting insights into Wotruba’s specific sculptural language and show how closely his work is intertwined with international sculpture after 1945. Selected encounters with works by Kenneth Armitage, Lynn Chadwick, César, Alberto Giacometti, Barbara Hepworth, Henri Laurens, Jacques Lipchitz, Aristide Maillol, Marino Marini, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Eduardo Paolozzi, Alicia Penalba, and Germaine Richier, it becomes clear how Wotruba positioned himself in the global discourse on sculpture—and why his work still has international appeal today.
Registration required: FULLY BOOKED.
Exhibition Wotruba International
- July 2025 – January 11, 2026, Belvedere 21
Belvedere 21 – Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Belvedere 21 is a venue for contemporary art, film and performance as well as a social meeting place in an urban future area. In Karl Schwanzer’s adapted World’s Fair Pavilion, Austrian and international art from the 1960s to the present is shown on three light-flooded levels.
FULLY BOOKED: Curator's tour of 'Wotruba International'
12 Nov 2025/16:30-17:30H
Belvedere 21 - Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Wien
Registration required
Fritz Wotruba, Große liegende Figur, 1951–53 Belvedere, Wien, 2019 Dauerleihgabe Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft, Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien
