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Wotruba Church (1974-76) in Vienna, Austria, by Fritz Wotruba & Fritz Gerhard Mayr

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Church of the Most Holy Trinity, better known as the Wotruba Church, in Vienna, Austria, built 1974-1976, designed by sculptor Fritz Wotruba.

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Frtiz Wotruba and architect Fritz Gerhard Mayr, Church of the Holy Trinity, Vienna, Austria, 1974-1976

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Kirche Zur Heiligsten Dreifaltigkeit (Church of the Most Holy Trinity), also known as Wotruba Church, by Fritz Wotruba and Fritz Gerhard Mayr (1974-1976).

Vienna, Austria.

© Roberto Conte (2022)

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Vienna - Wotruba Church (1974-1976, Fritz Wotruba)

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The Wotruba Church

Fritz Wotruba / Fritz G. Mayr

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Wotruba Church, by Fritz Wotruba and Fritz Gerhard Mayr (1974-1976). Vienna, Austria. Roberto Conte (2022)

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Fritz Wotruba 

kleiner gehender - 1972

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The Church of the Most Holy Trinity, commonly known as the Wotruba Church, by Fritz Wotruba and Fritz G Mayr.

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Almost 50 years after its consecration Fritz Wotruba’s Church of the Holy Trinity in Vienna still remains one of the most fascinating church buildings of the 20th century. Made up of 152 individually cast concrete blocks it is a puzzling structure oscillating between architecture and sculpture, the open and the closed. In 2021/22 the Belvedere21 in Vienna with „Wotruba. Himmelwärts - Die Kirche auf dem Georgenberg“ dedicated an entire exhibition to the building, its creator and the conflictual genesis of it. It was accompanied by the present and highly insightful catalogue published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König that on the one hand recounts the protracted and conflict-laden history of the church but on the other hand also locates it within postwar church architecture and Wotruba’s oeuvre. Within the latter it marks a high point that crowns a development towards dissolving the figure in an architectural form and more than a decade of continued dedication. Sadly Wotruba didn’t see the completion of the church as he untimely died in 1975. Besides a highly insightful exegesis of the church the catalogue also contains a wealth of drawings and contemporary photographs that document the coming to life of the building on site and in the artist’s imagination, a deeply fascinating process that nonetheless was very critically and at times even hostilely received by both the public and the expert audience. The waves have calmed over the past four and a half decades and Wotruba’s church now ranks among the relevant sites to see in Vienna, a development that the Belvedere’s exhibition will further contribute to as it deepens the understanding of and hopefully also the love for this unique church.

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Church of the Most Holy Trinity, aka the Wotruba Church, in Vienna, Austria, built 1974-1976, designed by sculptor Fritz Wotruba.

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Squatting Figure (bronze - 1950 - 1951) by Fritz Wotruba (Austria 1907 - 1975)

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Wotruba Church (1974-76) in Vienna, Austria by Fritz Wotruba & Fritz Gerhard Mayr

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Kitchen Zur Heiligsten Dreifaltigkeit:

"WOTRUBA CHURCH"

Vienna, Austria (1974 - 1976):

Sculptor: Fritz Woltruba

Architect: Fritz Gerhard Mary