Wenzel Hablik’s crystalline architectural utopias are juxtaposed with Nándor Angstenberger’s fictional utopian landscapes.
Separated by 90 years, Wenzel Hablik, born 1881 in Brüx, former Bohemia, Nándor Angstenberger was born in the former Yugoslavia in 1970. Both artists have developed their own approaches to creating different life worlds. Angstenberger, who now lives in Berlin, calls himself a world builder and playfully processes found materials into highly complex structures. Comparing both artists beside their visual similarities there is a common content in finding and proposing a new ideal non-violent Utopia, particulary Wenzel Hablik´s vision, built on the crystal architecture as a trailblazer for a global and non-violent society.
Paintings by Wenzel Hablik:
„Die Wolke“ 1910
„Meereszauber“ 1917
„Cyclus utopische Architekturen, Flugzeugtürme, Silos, Künstlerwohnungen“
1921