Josef Schützenhöfer — Liberation in Progress
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Josef Schützenhöfer, the Austrian born artist, immigrated to the United States as a young man, started his artistic career and joined the US Navy. In 1997, Schützenhöfer returned to Austria to live on the rural Austrian countryside. His works of art have a strong social-political commitment, be it huge painted portraits of laborers or his recent long-term project ‘Liberation in Progress’. His practice bridges two very different cultural contexts — American and Austrian — and insists on the dignity of manual labor as a subject worthy of monumental artistic treatment.