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1921 - 1996. Known for: Sculpture.
Oskar Bottoli attended the Academy of Fine Arts from 1945-1953, where he was Fritz Wotruba's first student. He reactivated old bronze casting methods and opened a studio in Floridsdorf in 1956. Among... Read full biography
Oskar Bottoli attended the Academy of Fine Arts from 1945-1953, where he was Fritz Wotruba's first student. He reactivated old bronze casting methods and opened a studio in Floridsdorf in 1956. Among other things, he also designed works for the Kunsthistorisches Museum. In 1987 he was awarded the... Read full biography
Oskar Bottoli attended the Academy of Fine Arts from 1945-1953, where he was Fritz Wotruba's first student. He reactivated old bronze casting methods and opened a studio in Floridsdorf in 1956. Among other things, he also designed works for the Kunsthistorisches Museum. In 1987 he was awarded the Medal of Honour in Gold. Numerous sculptures in public spaces. "Among the sculptors of his generation, Bottoli is probably the most original, juiciest, strongest and also the one in whose work most of... Read full biography
Oskar Bottoli attended the Academy of Fine Arts from 1945-1953, where he was Fritz Wotruba's first student. He reactivated old bronze casting methods and opened a studio in Floridsdorf in 1956. Among other things, he also designed works for the Kunsthistorisches Museum. In 1987 he was awarded the Medal of Honour in Gold. Numerous sculptures in public spaces. "Among the sculptors of his generation, Bottoli is probably the most original, juiciest, strongest and also the one in whose work most of the originality and monumentality of archaic, Egyptian and Romanesque sculpture lives on. He loves massive, bulging figures, likes to form stocky bodies. An element of the popular and the grotesque entered into his work", wrote the art critic Johann... Read full biography
Oskar Bottoli attended the Academy of Fine Arts from 1945-1953, where he was Fritz Wotruba's first student. He reactivated old bronze casting methods and opened a studio in Floridsdorf in 1956. Among other things, he also designed works for the Kunsthistorisches Museum. In 1987 he was awarded the Medal of Honour in Gold. Numerous sculptures in public spaces. "Among the sculptors of his generation, Bottoli is probably the most original, juiciest, strongest and also the one in whose work most of the originality and monumentality of archaic, Egyptian and Romanesque sculpture lives on. He loves massive, bulging figures, likes to form stocky bodies. An element of the popular and the grotesque entered into his work", wrote the art critic Johann Muschik about the artist.
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Oskar Bottoli attended the Academy of Fine Arts from 1945-1953, where he was Fritz Wotruba's first student. He reactivated old bronze casting methods and opened a studio in Floridsdorf in 1956. Among other things, he also designed works for the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
In 1987 he was awarded the Medal of Honour in Gold. Numerous sculptures in public spaces.
"Among the sculptors of his generation, Bottoli is probably the most original, juiciest, strongest and also the one in whose work most of the originality and monumentality of archaic, Egyptian and Romanesque sculpture lives on. He loves massive, bulging figures, likes to form stocky bodies. An element of the popular and the grotesque entered into his work", wrote the ar...But wait, there's more...
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