Karl Wiener — Monument | Modernist Abstract Print

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Karl Wiener — Monument | Modernist Abstract PrintKarl Wiener (19011949) was an Austrian graphic artist and illustrator whose work spanned modernist abstraction, book illustration, and decorative design in Interwar Vienna. His output from the introspective From My Life series to his charming architectural sketches and spare figurative works reflects the cultural richness and formal experimentation of Viennese modernism between the wars. Working in the tradition of the Vienna Secession but with his

chromatic refinement

Working with publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō

Published in the album Ett hem (A Home

The work on this page stopped you for a reason

more than any of his Orientalist contemporaries

distributing them through American embassies and cultural centres worldwide

His 1924 exhibition in Buenos Aires caused a scandal comparable to the Armory Show in New York — audiences unused to Cubist fragmentation responded with bewilderment and outrage

his portraits — bathing women

Flemish realism

The Shahnameh (Book of Kings

psychologically penetrating portraits

and quiet wit

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