Bottoli, Oskar

Standing female nude, 1971 Bronze hollow monogrammed and dated 71,5 x 19,5 x 12 cm Oskar Bottoli attended the Academy of Fine Arts 1945-1953, where he was the first student of Fritz Wotruba. 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 received the Medal of Honor 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 lives on most of the originality and monumentality of archaic, Egyptian, Romanesque sculpture. He loves massive, bulging figures, likes to form stocky bodies. An element of the popular and grotesque entered into his work", wrote the art critic Johann Muschik about the artist. On stone base; WVZ-No.: 97 Provenance: From the estate