Storm - Franz Sedlacek iPhone Case

Franz Sedlacek painted like a lucid dreamer with a death wish. Born in Breslau and raised in Linz, he studied both architecture and chemistry in Vienna—a duality that shaped his eerie precision. As part of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement, Sedlacek straddled Symbolism and early Magical Realism, conjuring scenes of twilight unease: melancholic women, surreal cityscapes, spectral forests. His most haunting works, like Lied in der Dämmerung (Song in the Twilight), feel like lullabies for the apocalypse.

By day, he worked at the Technical Museum of Vienna; by night, he distilled dread into oil. His figures are suspended between stillness and implosion, often faceless or turned away—as if caught mid-vanishing. In 1939, Sedlacek joined the Wehrmacht. He disappeared near Toruń Fortress, Poland in 1945—his body never recovered. Officially declared dead in 1972, he became his own motif: a ghost folded into war fog.

Sedlacek left behind a portfolio of haunted clarity, where the world’s logic bends—but never breaks—under the quiet weight of its own extinction.

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