Franz Hagenauer - Werkstätte Hagenauer Wien

Austrian sculptor and designer Franz Hagenauer is one of the most important represen tatives of modernism with his radically reduced formal language. His versatile work is a synthesis of sculpture and applied arts.

Sensual, functional, aesthetic. This is how one could briefly summarize the works of Franz Hagenauer. With his heads, busts, and figures crafted from brass and copper sheet metal, Hagenauer became a radical co-creator of Austrian modernism. His work combines abstraction and figuration in a unique way. Hagenauer borrows from Neoclassicism, New Realism, and Art Deco. Born in Vienna in 1906, the sculptor was born into art. His father, Carl Hagenauer, founded the renowned Hagenauer workshop in 1898. Located in Vienna's 7th district, the workshop specialized in metal and bronze work in the historicist style, later in floral and geometric Art Nouveau. At the turn of the century, the Neubau district was home to craft businesses such as Auböck, Bergmann, and the Wiener Werkstätte, where Hagenauer worked as a teenager under Dagobert Peche.