"four Nudes" Mixed Media On Cardboard By Eva Christina Fuchs (born 1941)

Composition with "QuatreNus" mixed media on cardboard by Austrian artist Eva Christina Fuchs measuring 53 x 75 cm, 1970s. Eva Fuchs, (born Eva Christina Postl on November 21, 1941 in Vienna) is an Austrian artist, painter, jewelry and fashion designer. Discovering her painter grandmother's painting materials contributed decisively to her desire to become an artist herself. Eva, who was only 15 at the time, met a young, rising painter, Ernst Fuchs - 12 years her senior - who gave her private lessons and trained her in nature and nude drawing, teaching her the oil painting techniques of the old masters. She accompanied Ernst Fuchs to Paris and discovered the artistic world there in the late 1950s. After the Côte d'Azur, Belgium, and Italy, the couple married in 1961. They lived in Vienna and had four children. In 1973, Eva-Christina created her first children's book, "Album de la famille Fuchs," with texts and images by Ernst, but especially by Eva Fuchs and the children. It was voted best children's book of the year. Alongside her work as a painter, this multidisciplinary artist also established herself as a fashion and jewelry designer. She has always considered her fashion creations as works of art in their own right, calling them "artistic body costumes." In 1993, she founded a fashion company, "Hoffmann's Olympia - Art Design & Styling." At that time, most of her creative activity focused on the design of opulent jewelry. In 1992, Eva Fuchs created a collection of fourteen pieces of jewelry for the renowned jeweler Wagner in Vienna: this "Moonlight Collection," which resulted from a mystical reflection on the omnipresent influence of the moon on women, attracted national and international attention. In 1997, the Looshaus in Vienna opened the artist's first major solo exhibition, featuring 30 oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and numerous jewelry designs. In 2003, Studio Fayer in Vienna presented a major solo exhibition of the artist, entitled "Angels and Mystical Landscapes," which showed her various "angelic cycles" and "mystical landscapes of the end of time, with their inexplicable celestial bodies, comets, and crop circles," in reference to the Apocalypse of John: "... and I saw a new heaven and a new earth...". (ref. Anja Schmidt, “Kultur-Schatulle”, n° 16/19 April 2003).