Eroffnungen. Eine literarische Zeitschrift (later called:) Magazin fur Literatur & bildende Kunst. Nos. 1 - 24. (All published).

Bleiburg & Vienna.: Self-published (Hubert Fabian Kulterer & Hannes Schneider)., 1961-1971.. 24 issues in 20 volumes (including four double numbers). Original printed wrappers, stapled.. Each issue (30.2 x 21.3). 16 - 40 pages per issue. Complete set. Eröffnungen, translated as ‘Openings’, was first published in January 1961 in Carinthia (with its own editorial office in Vienna) and was one of the first art and literary magazines published in Austria which oriented itself towards the young Viennese avant-garde. It namely drew its inspiration and contributions from two major strands of this new Austrian avant-garde, the ‘Art-Club’ and the Wiener Gruppe, whose members included HC Artmann, Friedrich Achleitner, Ernst Jandl, Konrad Bayer and Gerhard Rühm. With the early numbers of the magazine, the visual art was restricted to the covers of each issue, primarily illustrating the work of Ernst Fuchs. The particular brand of the Wiener Schule des Phantastischen Realismus (Vienna School of Fantastic Realism), of which Fuchs was a major exponent is continued throughout the magazine, with surrealistic illustrations by Richard Matouschek, Rudolf Hausner, Helmut Kies, Marechal, Wolfgang Hutter and others. Abstract painting also began to make an appearance in the magazine’s later issues, with the works of the Hundsgruppe including Hundertwasser, Maria Lassnig, Arnulf Rainer and Johan Fruhmann. International modernists also began to appear on the magazine’s pages, with the thirteenth issue devoted to the American Pop of Rosenquist, Rauschenberg, Warhol and Segal (the same issue from 1964 also includes a single page of reproductions of Otto Muehl’s happenings). Literary works by non-Austrian writers also appeared - poems by Ernest Hemingway, short prose by Albert Camus, and chansons by Jacques Prévert. The first six numbers of Eröffnungen were printed in Klagenfurt near Kleinmayr, and the following issues in Vienna. In addition to Hubert Kulterer, Heidi Pataki and Hannes Schneider, a friend of H.C. Artmann, were involved in the editorial team, at least temporarily. Konrad Bayer mainly worked on the selection of texts and the conception of the thematic issues. This set is complete with the supplement insert to issue no.12: - the printing of a four page concrete poem by Gerhard Rühm from 1957 entitled ‘bewegung’.