Storm - Franz Sedlacek iPhone Case

$48USD
  • Luxe art armor for your 2nd brain
  • Precise fit for your iPhone/Samsung
  • Artwork won't fade, crack or peel
  • Certified non-toxic tough case

A glacial stag freezes mid-gait. Hooves crumbling the brittle ash beneath. Trees pitch violently, their trunks splintered into arcs like snapped compass needles. In Storm by Franz Sedlacek, survival isn’t theatrical. It’s anatomical. And this iPhone case doesn’t echo the storm. It archives its retreat. 

Your fingers pass over powdered sky, chipped stone, ochre shadows. Expressionist windlines tilt every object off-axis. While the deer—a bleached marionette—drags a broken axis across your screen. While every branch is a spire of damage, every shadow a collapsed intention. Root systems tilt like failed architecture. The horizon is split by storm-strata: pewter, cream, coal.

Sedlacek’s 1932 canvas—painted at the edge of Austria’s psychological collapse—grants this outcrop a paranoid geometry. Embodying high surrealist landscape distortion and the graphic poetics of decay. Phone protection becomes a portable monument: eerie, angular, post-human. For collectors of Austrian magic realism and symbolist motifs, this case becomes wearable melancholy.

Origin Story

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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Produced on Demand

Produced after you purchase at print labs across the US, UK, EU & AUS. Significantly minimising landfill waste by only making things people actually want.

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Produced, quality checked, packed with care and handed to trusted shipping carriers within 72-96 hours on average.

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Free shipping to Continental United States, Canada, UK, EU, Australia, New Zealand & more: see full list here.

Production + Delivery =

US: 4-9 days • Canada: 5-12 days • UK: 4-9 days • EU: 5-10 days • AUS: 4-9 days • NZ: 5-12 days • Rest of the world: 3-4 weeks

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Chic and shatterproof

Gloss for a lustrous statement. Matte for timeless refinement. Printed with rich, vibrant colors & a touch of magic.

Wraparound magic
High-quality colour print which is fully 3D wrapped around the entire body of the case; covering all corners, sides and edges equally
Tailored to your device
Easy access to buttons and clear, open ports for connectivity. Plus a raised rim guard for your screen & camera.
Art sealed in
Vivid, permanent, full-coverage print infused into the outer layer with a sublimation dye process. Meaning your art won't fade, crack or peel.

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Wireless charging compatible

Outer layer made from specialist impact-resistant plastic (polycarbonate) which is extremely strong and lightweight. Black silicone inner layer (polyurethane) gives additional shock absorption.

Elegant precision
Precise, sculpted fit tailored to your iPhone or Samsung model.
Made-to-order
Printed at labs across the USA, UK, EU & AUS after your purchase. Ensuring your new treasure gets produced as close to you as possible.
Certified non-toxic
REACH, RoHS and TÜV Rheinland certified. So your new treasure contains no harmful chemicals or hazardous substances.

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