Rudolf Hausner, 1914-1995, is considered the most outstanding representatives of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. In the 50s he became famous when he started to present in his works through the leitmotif figure of "Adam": "I can see the world only by myself!"

Rudolf Hausner's Œuvre is unique. All attempts to classify it in the usual categories of art history, must fail. Years ago, Wieland recognize Smith in the only psychoanalytic painter Hausner of Rudolf as equivalent enter into his reality and subconscious. The artist created the art character of Adam in his image because he knew no one better and deeper and was able to convey, as himself. "Painting, I enter into my subconscious and find important basics for my existence", Rudolf Hausner described his own contribution to the international surrealism.

With this guiding principle, the artist has created a form of the twentieth century: the curious, enlightened, helpless, but also skeptical contemporaries, who wants to go to the bottom of things. Identifying us with him, his work on the individual points. The collective self portrait of modern man succeeded in Hausner.

The chronology of his activities of the exhibition reads like a bulleted list of the cultural hotspots of the world: 1959 documenta II, Kassel; 1960 Guggenheim Museum, New York; 1963 Biennale Sao Paulo; 1980 Kunstlerhaus Vienna; 1982 Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.

In 1994, the city of Vienna honoured Rudolf Hausner, who held professorships in Hamburg and in Vienna, with a major retrospective

Sculptural representation of person's head and shoulders.

Designation for an art object (sculpture, installation), which is produced according to the will of the artist in multiple copies in a limited and numbered edition.

Artist's multiple contributed to "democratization" of art as the work was made available and affordable for a wider audience.

A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.

While sculptures from wood, ivory or stone are made directly from the block of material, for bronze casting a working model is prepared at first. Usually it is made of clay or other easily shaped materials.

The prime time of sculpture after the Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Also the contemporary artists, such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz enriched the sculpture with outstanding works.