CHRISTO (1935-2020) 5,600 Cubicmeter Package, documenta IV, Kassel, 1967-68 Offset on paper, signed and dated 68 Paper size: 68.5 x 48 cm

Prof. Fritz Wotruba, Figuren und Köpfe Composition of striding figures and head studies, etching, around 1970, signed "F. Wotruba" in pencil below the depiction on the right and numbered "27/135" on the left, monogrammed "F. W." in the plate, in a frameless picture support (disc with crack), depiction dimensions approx. 27 x 24.5 cm, sheet dimensions approx. 30 x 28 cm. Artist info: Austrian sculptor and graphic artist. Sculptor and graphic artist (1907 Vienna - 1975 Vienna), 1921-25 apprenticeship as a punch engraver, 1926 attended evening nude courses at the Kunstgewerbeschule des Österreichischen Museums für Kunst und Industrie, 1928-29 pupil of Eugen Steinhof, from 1929 freelance artist, 1930-33 participated in several exhibitions, from 1932 member of the Vienna Secession and participation in the Venice Biennale, 1933 brief emigration to Zurich, 1936 resigned from the Vienna Secession, 1939-1945 repeated emigration to Switzerland, return to and appointment as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, 1947 contact with Ossip Zadkine, Henri Laurens and Alberto Giacometti during a trip, stage design and costumes for Igor Stravinsky's play "The Soldier's Tale", 1948 solo exhibition at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, 1953 appointment as member of the Austrian Werkbund, participation in the IV. Biennale in Sao Paulo, 1964 participation in documenta II in Kassel, design and realisation of a church in Vienna-Mauer (today known as the Wotruba Church), 1971 awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, source: e.g. Wikipedia.