In his sculptural designs, Franz Hagenauer responded to a range of international avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century. Reduced to fundamental geometric forms and only sparingly articulated details, his hammered-metal heads and busts reveal clear affinities with the visual language of artists such as Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i and Amedeo Modigliani, as well as with French Cubist painting.<\/p>\n
The sculpture’s mask-like face\u2014defined by a sweeping line that simultaneously delineates the eyebrows and the bridge of the nose\u2014recalls ritual objects from a variety of non-Western cultures. Such works served as an important source of inspiration for many avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century in their pursuit of increasingly abstract modes of expression.<\/p>\n
The applied strands of hair and the flat, two-dimensional hands point to Hagenauer’s work from the late 1960s onward, a period in which he increasingly experimented with planar elements. Their smooth surfaces create a compelling contrast with the visibly hammered texture of the mask-like face, where the traces of the artist’s craftsmanship are deliberately left exposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Headsculpture with hands, design by Franz Hagenauer, execution by Werkst\u00e4tte Hagenauer Wien, ca. 1984, brass, chased, nickel-plated, marked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39844,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[416],"product_tag":[1069,1635],"class_list":["post-39861","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-werkstaette-hagenauer-wien-en","product_tag-franz-hagenauer-en","product_tag-werkstaette-hagenauer-wien-en","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n