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A Limited Bronze Clock 'Janus' with Movement by IWC

Ernst Fuchs (Wien 1930 - Wien 2015)


A Limited Bronze Clock 'Janus' with Movement by IWC

Lot-No. 701

Proceeds : 5.700 €


Around 1981. Bronze with patina, partly gold coloured, signed, numb.: Ernst Fuch, 'IWC International Watch Co. Schaffhausen', 'Venturi Arte', 21/789. Movement inside the base, half and full hour strike on bell. Lunette moveable for 24 hours, indices and roman numerals with hand, three winding holes. Marble plinth (small dam..). With 2 keys. Column H. 90,5 cm, clock H. 67,5 cm. - Painter, graphic artist and architect, one of the main exponents of Phantastic Realism. Already at the age of 16 he began studying at the Vienna academy, among others under A. Gütersloh, and as early as 1949 he had his first solo exhibition in Paris where he settled in 1950. In 1962 he returned to Vienna where he bought the Otto Wagner Mansions in 1972 that later became the Ernst Fuchs Museum. Mus.: Wien (Ernst-Fuchs-Mus.).

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Ernst Fuchs: A Limited Bronze Clock 'Janus' with Movement by IWC


Ernst Fuchs (Wien 1930 - Wien 2015)

A Limited Bronze Clock 'Janus' with Movement by IWC

Lot-No. 701

Proceeds : 5.700 €

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Around 1981. Bronze with patina, partly gold coloured, signed, numb.: Ernst Fuch, 'IWC International Watch Co. Schaffhausen', 'Venturi Arte', 21/789. Movement inside the base, half and full hour strike on bell. Lunette moveable for 24 hours, indices and roman numerals with hand, three winding holes. Marble plinth (small dam..). With 2 keys. Column H. 90,5 cm, clock H. 67,5 cm. - Painter, graphic artist and architect, one of the main exponents of Phantastic Realism. Already at the age of 16 he began studying at the Vienna academy, among others under A. Gütersloh, and as early as 1949 he had his first solo exhibition in Paris where he settled in 1950. In 1962 he returned to Vienna where he bought the Otto Wagner Mansions in 1972 that later became the Ernst Fuchs Museum. Mus.: Wien (Ernst-Fuchs-Mus.).

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