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Parallel to the major opening exhibition of the Albertina Modern, "The Beginning" in the Vienna Künstlerhaus, the Kovacek & Zetter Gallery is also devoting itself to the art of the years after 1945. The mood of departure after the Second World War has gripped the cultural world and the young generation of artists wants to make up for the omissions of the war years and return to the international art scene. Two dominant positions quickly emerged. The artists of the "Vienna School of Fantastic Realism", among them Arik Brauer and Anton Lehmden, and the advocates of …