BMW Art CarsErnst Fuchs x BMW 635 CSi

04/10/2022

BMW Art Cars
Ernst Fuchs x BMW 635 CSi

Ernst Fuchs x BMW 635 CSi

Ernst Fuchs, who was born in Vienna in 1930, studied sculpture and painting between 1943 and 1950.

In the late 40s he founded the “Vienna School of Fantastic Realism” along with other young artists. Until 1961 Fuchs lived and worked mainly in Paris together with his fellow countryman Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

From 1974 he devoted himself to music theatre as well as the design of scenery and costumes.

The BMW 635 CSi designed by Fuchs was the first Art Car based on a production car. The artist used it solely to project his own imagination – “(…)

I call this car “Fire Fox on a Hare Hunt‟. I see a hare at night running across the “autobahn” and leaping over a burning car – a primeval fear and a bold dream of surmounting a dimension in which we live.”