Fritz Wotruba [SEP] place of birth
Fritz Wotruba
Fritz Wotruba (23 April 1907, Vienna – 28 August 1975, Vienna) was an Austrian sculptor of Czecho-Hungarian descent. He was considered one of the most notable sculptors of the 20th century in Austria. In his work, he increasingly dissolves figurative components in favor of geometrical abstraction with the shape of the cube as the basic form.
Life.
Fritz Wotruba was born in 1907 as the youngest of eight children of Adolf Wotruba (who came from Bohemia to work as a tailor's assistant
Votruba
Votruba, also spelled Wotruba, is a Czech and Slovak surname.
Persons named Votruba or Wotruba include:
- Fritz Wotruba (1907–1975), Austrian sculptor
- Jaroslav Votruba (born 1939), Czech figure skater
- Jiří Votruba (born 1946), Czech illustrator
- Traude Votruba (born 1942), Austrian politician
- Václav Votruba (1909–1990), Czech physicist