Wolfgang Hutter studied from 1945 to 1950 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with his father Albert Paris Gütersloh. Wolfgang Hutter was the biological son of Albert Paris Gütersloh and Milena Hutter, who had a love affair that lasted for years. Milena Hutter was the wife of the doctor Karl Hutter. Gütersloh only recognized Wolfgang Hutter as his son in his will in 1973. With Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, Edgar Jené and Fritz Janschka, the creator of a Ulysses alphabet, Hutter founded a surrealist group in the Vienna Art Club and was a founding member of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. His artificial imagery is characterized by artificial gardens and fairy-tale scenes in meticulous detail and technical perfection. From 1966 to 1997 Hutter taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, from 1974 as a full professor. Hutter was married four times. He had a daughter from his second marriage, and their son, the actor Xaver Hutter, as well as another son and a daughter come from his third marriage to the costume designer Birgit Hutter. Wolfgang Hutter lived and worked with his fourth wife Edith Hutter, née Rosenberger, a graduate of the University of Applied Arts, from 1983 until his death.