Hrdlicka, Alfred. Viennese blood. With 16 (15 colored) signed original etchings. Frankfurt, Propyläen, 1974. 59 x 40.5 cm. Loose in original cardboard folder printed inside and out. Lewin 543ff. - One of 250 numbered copies, here no. 11 - The etchings all signed, numbered and dated (1973) by Hrdlicka. - Sheet size: 57 x 38 cm. Image size: 25 x 25 cm. - Print of the etchings by Walther Fischer in Vienna, typography and design by Hans Peter Willberg. - Inside pages of the cardboard folder with documentation about the advertisement and the brief confiscation in Berlin. Back with a text by Hrdlicka. - "Technically speaking, this cycle is completely out of the ordinary compared to all the other works. With a single exception, all 16 sheets are conceived as color etchings. For the first time, writing is an integral part of the work." (Lewin) - "In the summer of 1973, the Viennese bookseller Wilhelm Herzog, who also owned a gallery, was accused and convicted of selling pornographic magazines and books. As a protest against the hypocrisy, philistinism and bigotry of the prevailing legal situation at the time, Hrdlicka and the journalist Günther Nenning wrote a self-denunciation in which the two accused each other of being pornographers and demanded just punishment from the public prosecutor. For Hrdlicka, his cycle "Wiener Blut." (Viennese Blood) was the catalyst. The etchings were, so to speak, the evidence for this self-accusation, but at the same time they are works that are typically characterized by Hrdlicka's wit and irony ... In Austria, however, there was no conviction." (Lewin). - Good copy. - Provenance: From the collection of Hans-Jürgen Döpp, Frankfurt.