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TheVienna School of Fantastic Realism (German:Wiener Schule des Phantastischen Realismus) is a group of artists founded inVienna in 1946. The group's name was coined in the 1950s by Johann Muskik, and the first exhibition was in 1959 at the Vienna Belvedere. This Austrian movement has similarities toSurrealism in its use of religious andesoteric symbolism and also the choice of a naturalistic style, countering the prevalence ofabstract art movements at the time.
Artists includeErnst Fuchs,Maître Leherb (Helmut Leherb),Arik Brauer,Wolfgang Hutter,Anton Lehmden, Fritz Janschka, and Israeli artistZeev Kun, all students of ProfessorAlbert Paris Gütersloh at theVienna Academy of Fine Arts. Gütersloh's emphasis on the techniques of theOld Masters gave the "fantastic realist" painters a grounding in realism, similar to early Flemish artists such asJan van Eyck.
Some older members of the group, includingRudolf Hausner,Kurt Regschek andFritz Janschka, emigrated to the US in 1949, where Kurt Regschek helped organize the early exhibitions of the group in 1965. Hausner, Fuchs, Hutter, Brauer and Lehmden were referred to as "The Big Five" who subsequently held exhibitions internationally.
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