Ernst Fuchs - The Head Collector

Very beautiful giclee on canvas by artist Ernst Fuchs.
Limited edition of 300 copies.
Hand signed and numbered 167/300.
Dimensions 61 cm x 47 cm.
The work is in excellent condition.
Ernst FUCHS (Vienna 1930 - Vienna 2015) Fuchs was inspired to become an artist at an early age. In 1945, at the age of fifteen, Fuchs was admitted to the "Akademie der Bildenden Künste", which had reopened after the war on Vienna's Schillerplatz. From 1950 to 1962 he lived and worked in Paris, from where he traveled to America, Italy, Spain and England. His first exhibitions in a major museum and several solo exhibitions took place during this period. In 1957 he retired to the privacy of a monastery in Jerusalem and painted a picture of the last supper for the monastery's refectory. In 1962 Fuchs returned to his city, Vienna as an internationally renowned artist and was appointed professor four years later . In the early 1970s Fuchs bought "Villa Wagner" at Vienna-Hütteldorf, which he redesigned as his place to live and work. During the following years, Fuchs designed stages and costumes for operas and ballets. He wrote philosophical essays on poetry. From 1980 to 1988 his work was awarded solo exhibitions around the world.| The artist's first major retrospective exhibition took place at the "Palazzo Piagini" in Venice, followed by further retrospectives at the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg and Gruyère Castle in Switzerland in the 1990s and "Palais Harrach" in Vienna in 2001. Today Fuchs lives and works in Monte Carlo. Since 1988, "Villa Otto Wagner" has been his private museum, housing the Ernst Fuchs collection