Wall sculpture Franz Hagenauer Werkstatte Hagenauer ca. 1970

Franz Hagenauer’s characteristically reduced head portraits are among his most significant works. Hagenauer kept developing his style over the years until the 1980s. Our wall sculpture of a woman dates back to this late period.

In 1970, when Franz Hagenauer was a professor at the Vienna School of Applied Arts, he drew a strong creative inspiration from exchanging with his students. The reduction of physical features was no longer enough for him and so he began to reduce objects from three-dimensionality to a two-dimensional plane. Our metal sculpture is a wonderful example of this approach. Notwithstanding its few attributes, it conveys an extraordinary radiance.