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New Exhibition at the Wien Museum: “Reality as an Attitude. Viennese Realism after 1950”
At a time when the art world was increasingly moving in abstract and avant-garde directions, an artistic movement emerged in Vienna that consciously opposed this development: Viennese Realism after 1950. The Wien Museum is now dedicating a comprehensive exhibition to this often overlooked but important art movement entitled “Reality as an attitude: Viennese Realism after 1950,” seen at Musa from March 20 to August 17, 2025.
The exhibition at the Wien Museum focuses on how existentialism shaped her realism, which propagated a new humanistic image of man. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons /Christine Koblitz/ CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
The Vienna Realist group of artists formed in 1954 as a conscious counter-current to the prevailing Art Informel and abstract art of the time. Its most important representatives included Georg Eisler, Hans Escher, Alfred Hrdlicka, Fritz Martinz, Rudolf Schönwald, and Rudolf Schwaiger. Their aim was to create a new form of realism that not only depicted the external world but also…
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