Wie Frohner aktionistisch Materialien und Formen erforschte, wird mit dem Matratzenbild „Ausgeweidet“ vorgestellt.

On 12 March 2014, Adolf Frohner would celebrate his 80th birthday. On the initiative of the Mayor of the City of Vienna, Michael Häupl, MUSA presents a cross section of the artist’s comprehensive oeuvre from the collection of the City of Vienna’s Municipal Department for Cultural Affairs to honour him posthumously on this occasion. The retrospective of Frohner’s work will also be complemented by further items of his artistic estate on loan from kleine galerie. Self-taught artist Adolf Frohner always followed his own artistic will.

He was a generalist in the best sense of the word and successfully mastered a wide variety of techniques. The entire spectrum of his work is covered, from his early watercolours to the large-sized oil paintings from the last years of Frohner’s life. The works on display at MUSA will include his complete cycle of etchings “Der Großinquisitor” (“The Great Inquisitor”) as well as his stunning series of works “Wiener Madln” (“Viennese Girls”), which is considered one of the artist’s masterpieces. The actionist way in which Frohner explored shapes and materials is showcased by his mattress sculpture “Ausgeweidet” (“Disembowelled”).