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800 \n \n austrian landscape painter. stayed in the artists colony dachau and the artists colony knokke, exhibited in the secession in vienna and the hagenbund. was married to karl mediz. stylistically between art nouveau, symbolism, mood impressionism and impressionism. created drawings and prints with landscapes as well as village views. among important austrian female artists such as tina blau, olga wisinger-florian and marie egner. \n \n landscapes occupy a central position in the oeuvre of the artist emilie mediz-pelikan, who was born in vöcklabruck. at 21 she became the last private student of the hoary landscape painter albert zimmermann. mediz-pelikan studied at the vienna academy and followed her teacher albert zimmermann to salzburg and munich. in 1891 she married the painter and graphic artist karl mediz, with whom she first lived in vienna and from 1894 on in dresden. she was in contact with the dachau artists' colony and undertook study trips to paris, belgium, hungary and italy. it was not until around 1900 that she achieved her artistic breakthrough with her landscape paintings. since the estate of the artist, who died prematurely in dresden in 1908, was stored in the former gdr until the 1980s, the artist was only rediscovered and re-evaluated relatively late, both in austrian art history and on the art market. in 1986 the first major exhibitions took place in the upper austrian state museum and in the university of applied arts in vienna. like many impressionist painters, emilie mediz-pelikans subject was about nature and its changeability right from the start of her artistic activity. her works are often immersed in an enraptured atmosphere. the motif of the birch trees, which she and her husband often used, is later also found in depictions by klimt, baar and junk. in a letter to her husband from 1893, she describes her journey to bohemian chotěboř and the beauty of the trees in the area. reading through the correspondence between the couple, the central importance of nature is immediately felt. the descriptions of the landscape and its vegetation are detailed, which mediz-pelikan also records in detailed sketches. impressive works were also created on trips to the adriatic sea, to coastal towns such as duino or dubrovnik (lacroma)."},"estimateMax":800,"lotNumber":"17","title":{"de":"emilie mediz-pelikan (vöcklabruck 1861 - 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4.000 \n \n austrian artist of the 20th century, especially of the interwar period. main representative of the new objectivity, expressionism and social critical realism. grew up in linz in upper austria, studied at the academy of fine arts with alois delug, karl sterrer and josef jungwirth. member of the hagenbund and the maerz artists association. created besides oil paintings, drawings and watercolors many works for the public space, so-called \"kunst am bau\" projects. in 1928 frescos for the arbeiterkammer in linz, 1936 frescoes for the main train station in linz and glass windows for the parish church in sandleiten in vienna. friend of clemens holzmeister. important representative of christian art, in addition to church windows and mosaics, numerous religious paintings and watercolors. created figurative paintings, mosaics, frescoes and landscapes with motifs from the salzkammergut, mood paintings of the seasons, spring, summer, autumn, winter, lake sceneries and cloud atmospheres. \n \n hauk studied from 1918 to 1923 at the academy of fine arts in vienna under jungwirth, sterrer and delug and exhibited in 1920 for the first time as part of a joint exhibition of the association of artists and art lovers of the \"ring\" in linz. from 1923 on hauk commuted between linz and vienna and worked as a freelance artist. he repeatedly exhibited at the vienna secession, the hagenbund and the maerz artists' association, of which he was a member. from 1927 to 1938 hauk was a member of the hagenbund and was later able to work and exhibit in spite of the nazi regime. between 1943 and 1945 he was drafted into military service. in 1947 he took over the directorship of the art school in linz and led a master class for painting until 1951. he exhibited regularly in vienna and linz in the 1950s and 1960s. in 1959, the upper austrian state museum organized the collective exhibition \"hauk-dimmel-hofmann\" with over 40 of hauk's works. after the war he was mainly active as a designer of frescoes, mosaics and murals that can be found on over 50 public buildings, mainly in linz and vienna."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"18","title":{"de":"karl hauk* (klosterneuburg 1898 - 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(\u201cimperial and royal\u201d, referring to the habsburgs dual monarchy austria-hungary) court carpenter friedrich paulick. the group spent their summer holidays in paulicks villa at lake attersee. there teschner met the host's daughter, emma paulick, whom he married in 1911. this advantageous marriage gave him financial independence. inspired by the javanese stick puppet theater, he subsequently turned to painting and graphics as well as puppetry and designed his own stick puppets and proscenium stages. his paintings and graphics are influenced, among other things, by elements from asian culture as well as fairy tales and legends."},"estimateMax":800,"lotNumber":"21","title":{"de":"richard teschner (carlsbad 1979 - 1948 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studied at the school of applied arts in vienna and at the academy of arts in munich. from 1906 in dachau and from 1908 again in vienna, member of the vienna künstlerhaus and exhibited in the munich glaspalast with the artists' association \"luitpoltgruppe\". corresponding member of the parisian artists' association \"la tendance nouvell\". nephew of alois raimund hein. lived in vienna and in unterach at lake attersee, passion for landscape painting and sailing. created naturalistic landscapes, natural atmospheres such as lake and seascapes, sunsets, boats, lighthouses. \n \n the viennese painter oswald grill studied painting with karl karger at the vienna school of applied arts and continued his studies in munich with carl von marr and alexander von wagner at the art academy. from 1906 on he worked as a freelance artist in dachau before settling back in vienna shortly afterwards. there he became a member of the wiener künstlerhaus in 1908 and served from 1917 to 1938 as vice president and president of the central association of austrian artists. in 1929 he was appointed professor. in his work, landscape paintings and portraits in a naturalistic conception and a bright and clear mood of nature predominate. his works have been exhibited in the munich glass palace and the vienna künstlerhaus, among others. oswald grill has received numerous honors, including the golden medal of honor of the republic of austria, the small golden state medal and the golden laurel of the vienna künstlerhaus."},"estimateMax":5000,"lotNumber":"22","title":{"de":"oswald grill* (vienna 1878 - 1964 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17519/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":3000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":3600,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.223Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac3,000 - 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hugo darnaut, who ran his famous school for landscape painting in plankenberg castle, and from the landscape painter ludwig halauska. a large number of her works ended up in the art collection of the imperial court. as a committed personality, she was also a committee member of the association of writers and artists in vienna."},"estimateMax":1000,"lotNumber":"23","title":{"de":"hermine von janda (klosterbruck, znaim 1854 - 1925 klosterbruck znaim)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17520/view","tags":["daFineart_DrawingsandPastels","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":600,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.225Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac600 - 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\n signed o. rasim and dated 1925 \n provenance: private property lower austria \n \n \n estimate \u20ac 2.000 - 4.000 \n \n austrian landscape painter and skier. attended the artist colony in dachau and was a student of hans von hayek. lived from 1904 in mühlau near innsbruck, founded 1912 künstlerbund heimat (later tiroler künstlerbund). one of the first \"snow painters\" in tyrol, winter landscapes and mountain scenes like alfons walde and max von esterle. snow landscapes comparable to sebastian isepp."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"25","title":{"de":"otto rasim (vienna 1878 - 1936 innsbruck)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17522/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":2000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":2600,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.229Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,000 - 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and impressionism. \n \n before the viennese painter friedrich beck studied at the academy of fine arts with christian griepenkerl from 1890 on, he completed a two-year apprenticeship at the graphic teaching and research institute in vienna. beck soon got involved in the viennese art scene and became a member of the jungbund, the hagenbund and, in 1905, the künstlerhaus. with all these associations, beck regularly exhibited in the austrian capital. beck's oeuvre is characterized by depictions of alpine landscapes, which he explored during his travels through austria and dalmatia. the vienna-based artist often traveled to the lower austrian and styrian alpine regions, where the work shown here was also created. the atmospheric winter picture shows the snow-covered hochschwab in upper styria in the last light of the declining day, which is already coloring the snow and the entire scenery in a delicate pink. beck leads the viewer's gaze over a group of conifers towards the mountain range. in the flatness of the depiction and the stylization of the forms, echoes of the late art nouveau can still be seen. beck uses simple lines and dashes in different shades of green, thus suggesting the needles of the trees. the trees on the mountain slopes are also sketched with quick brush strokes. the formal stylization of the subjects and the detail-like centering of the picture are reminiscent of josef stoitzner, who also passionately devoted himself to mountain painting. beck likes to use the interplay between light and shadow as well as light and dark color nuances. this can be observed well in the presented winter scene. the trees are depicted in dark shades of green and brown, which spread like shadows across the white snow surface, and the stone layers of the mountains, painted in shades of gray, also form an exciting contrast to the white snow."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"26","title":{"de":"friedrich beck (vienna 1873 - 1921 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estimate °\u20ac 300 - 1.500 \n \n portrait photography of the austrian architect, interior designer, craftsman and designer josef hoffmann. viennese portrait photography from the 1930s. hoffmann is considered the most important architect of the 20th century in austria, along with otto wagner and adolf loos. studied architecture at the academy of fine arts in the class of otto wagner. in 1895, with josef maria olbrich, carl otto czeschka, koloman moser, and leo kainradl, member of the \"siebener-club\". founded the vienna secession in 1987 with gustav klimt, koloman moser, josef maria olbrich, maximilian kurzweil, josef engelhart, ernst stöhr, wilhelm list, adolf hölzel as a split from the künstlerhaus. was professor at the vienna school of applied arts from 1899 to 1936. founded the wiener werkstätte together with koloman moser in 1903. in 1912, founding member of the wiener werkbund. arranged many exhibitions, co-founder of the kunstschau. initially influenced by french art noveau, later influenced by scottish architect mackintosh and the british arts and crafts movement. interested in the creation of spatial art and the idea of the total work of art. architectural designs include the sanatorium in purkersdorf, (1903), the palais stoclet in brussels (1905-1911), interior of the kabarett fledermaus (1909), villa skywa-primavesi (1913-1915), austrian pavilion for the cologne werkbundsiedlung (1914), austrian pavilion at the arts and crafts exhibition in paris (1925). \n \n the architect, designer, teacher and exhibition organizer josef hoffmann (1870-1956) is one of the central figures of viennese modernism and the international life reform movement around 1900. he is one of the most important austrian architects of all. his work, which spans six decades, has been honored with numerous national and international awards. josef hoffmann was born as josef franz maria hoffmann in pirnitz and grew up in a well-to-do family. the father josef hoffmann was mayor and co-owner of a textile factory; the mother leopoldine hoffmann, née tuppy, ran the household with many children. joseph was the only son; he grew up with three sisters, two other siblings had died shortly after birth. after high school in iglau (1879-1886) he attended the higher state trade school in brno (1887-1891), followed by a year's work in the military construction office in würzburg. in 1892 he came to vienna, where he became a student of carl von hasenauer at the academy of fine arts and from 1894 studied architecture with otto wagner. after his diploma (july 1895) he traveled to italy with a travel grant (rome prize). returning to vienna from capri, hoffmann entered wagner's studio in 1896/1897. from 1898 he worked as an independent architect and designer. as early as 1895, hoffmann was a member of the \"club of seven\" along with josef maria olbrich, koloman moser (kolo moser), c.o. czeschka and leo. in 1905 he left the vienna secession with the so-called \"klimt group\". in 1938/1939 and from 1945 to 1956 hoffmann was again a member of the secession and was the association's president from 1948 to 1950. from 1899 to 1936 hoffmann was a professor at the vienna school of applied arts (class for architecture). after his (involuntary) retirement, he received a teaching positions at the university of applied arts (1937) and the academy of fine arts (1946-1947). on may 1, 1903, he also founded the wiener werkstätte together with kolo moser and with the support of the banker fritz waerndorfer, for whom hoffmann remodeled his villa at weimarer strasse 45 in 1903/1904. in addition, josef hoffmann was a founding member of the austrian werkbund in 1912. from 1903 to 1922 hoffmann was married to anna hladik. their son wolfgang, with whom he had a difficult relationship throughout his life, was born in 1900. in 1925 josef hoffmann married karla (carla) schmatz. hoffmann's students included carl witzmann, oswald haerdtl and otto prutscher. in addition to his teaching 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war he built residential complexes for the city of vienna from 1924, for example the winarskyhof and the klosehof. in 1929 he designed a project for an art gallery on karlsplatz, which was never realised. he built houses 8, 9, 10 and 11 in the werkbundsiedlung. entrusted with the construction of the house of the wehrmacht in vienna."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"27","title":{"de":"atelier rudolf lechner, wilhelm müller (vienna 1822 - 1895), (vienna 1849 - 1928 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17524/view","tags":["daFineart_Photography","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":200,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.233Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac300 - \u20ac1,500","currency":"EUR","id":17524,"estimateMin":300},{"startPrice":500,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17525/001/001.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"josef hoffmann* (pirnitz 1870 - 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in 1903. 1912 founding member of the wiener werkbund. designed many exhibitions, co-founder of the kunstschau. initially influenced by french art noveau, later influenced by scottish architect mackintosh and the british arts and crafts movement. interested in the implementation of spatial art and the idea of the gesamtkunstwerk. architectural designs for, among others, sanatorium purkersdorf 1903, palais stoclet in brussels 1905-1911, interior design cabaret fledermaus 1909, villa skywa-primavesi 1913-1915, austria pavilion for cologne werkbundsiedlung 1914, austria pavilion arts and crafts exhibition in paris 1925. also created designs for interiors, furniture, tables, chairs, boxes, display cases, fabrics, tableware, cutlery, lamps, chandeliers, vases, decorations, etc. \n \n the architect, designer, teacher and exhibition organizer josef hoffmann (1870-1956) is one of the central figures of viennese modernism and the international life reform movement around 1900. he is one of the most important austrian architects of all. his work, which spans six decades, has been honored with numerous national and international awards. josef hoffmann was born as josef franz maria hoffmann in pirnitz and grew up in a well-to-do family. the father josef hoffmann was mayor and co-owner of a textile factory; the mother leopoldine hoffmann, née tuppy, ran the household with many children. joseph was the only son; he grew up with three sisters, two other siblings had died shortly after birth. after high school in iglau (1879-1886) he attended the higher state trade school in brno (1887-1891), followed by a year's work in the military construction office in würzburg. in 1892 he came to vienna, where he became a student of carl von hasenauer at the academy of fine arts and from 1894 studied architecture with otto wagner. after his diploma (july 1895) he traveled to italy with a travel grant (rome prize). returning to vienna from capri, hoffmann entered wagner's studio in 1896/1897. from 1898 he worked as an independent architect and designer. as early as 1895, hoffmann was a member of the \"club of seven\" along with josef maria olbrich, koloman moser (kolo moser), c.o. czeschka and leo. in 1905 he left the vienna secession with the so-called \"klimt group\". in 1938/1939 and from 1945 to 1956 hoffmann was again a member of the secession and was the association's president from 1948 to 1950. from 1899 to 1936 hoffmann was a professor at the vienna school of applied arts (class for architecture). after his (involuntary) retirement, he received a teaching positions at the university of applied arts (1937) and the academy of fine arts (1946-1947). on may 1, 1903, he also founded the wiener werkstätte together with kolo moser and with the support of the banker fritz waerndorfer, for whom hoffmann remodeled his villa at weimarer strasse 45 in 1903/1904. in addition, josef hoffmann was a founding member of the austrian werkbund in 1912. from 1903 to 1922 hoffmann was married to anna hladik. their son wolfgang, with whom he had a difficult relationship throughout his life, was born in 1900. in 1925 josef hoffmann married karla (carla) schmatz. hoffmann's students included carl witzmann, oswald haerdtl and otto prutscher. in addition to his teaching activities, hoffmann designed many exhibitions and was also a co-founder of the \"kunstschau\". hoffmann developed a lively building activity in vienna, which reached its peak in the years before the first world war. with the purkersdorf sanatorium, which he built in 1903 with the help of berta zuckerkandl, hoffmann became one of the most important architects of the new architecture. hoffmann made his internationally recognized name by building the palais stoclet in brussels, a masterpiece of post-impressionism and symbolism (1905-1911), in the interior design of which gustav klimt played a key role. in vienna, hoffmann designed, among other things, the business portal of k. and k. court and state printing office (1908), the interior design of the \"fledermaus\" cabaret (1909) and the renovation of the graben café (1912). he designed the austrian pavilion for the cologne werkbund exhibition in 1914 as well as for the arts and crafts exhibition in paris in 1925. after the first world war he built residential complexes for the city of vienna from 1924, for example the winarskyhof and the klosehof. in 1929 he designed a project for an art gallery on karlsplatz, which was never realised. he built houses 8, 9, 10 and 11 in the werkbundsiedlung. entrusted with the construction of the house of the wehrmacht in vienna."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"28","title":{"de":"josef hoffmann* (pirnitz 1870 - 1956 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academy of fine arts under otto wagner. in 1895, with josef maria olbrich, carl otto czeschka, koloman moser and leo kainradl, member of the club of seven. founded the vienna secession in 1987 with gustav klimt, koloman moser, josef maria olbrich, maximilian kurzweil, josef engelhart, ernst stöhr, wilhelm list, adolf hölzel as a split from the künstlerhaus. 1899 to 1936 professor at the vienna school of applied arts. founded the wiener werkstätte with kolo moser in 1903. 1912 founding member of the wiener werkbund. designed many exhibitions, co-founder of the kunstschau. initially influenced by french art noveau, later influenced by scottish architect mackintosh and the british arts and crafts movement. interested in the implementation of spatial art and the idea of the gesamtkunstwerk. architectural designs for, among others, sanatorium purkersdorf 1903, palais stoclet in brussels 1905-1911, interior design cabaret fledermaus 1909, villa skywa-primavesi 1913-1915, austria pavilion for cologne werkbundsiedlung 1914, austria pavilion arts and crafts exhibition in paris 1925. also created designs for interiors, furniture, tables, chairs, boxes, display cases, fabrics, tableware, cutlery, lamps, chandeliers, vases, decorations, etc. \n \n the architect, designer, teacher and exhibition organizer josef hoffmann (1870-1956) is one of the central figures of viennese modernism and the international life reform movement around 1900. he is one of the most important austrian architects of all. his work, which spans six decades, has been honored with numerous national and international awards. josef hoffmann was born as josef franz maria hoffmann in pirnitz and grew up in a well-to-do family. the father josef hoffmann was mayor and co-owner of a textile factory; the mother leopoldine hoffmann, née tuppy, ran the household with many children. joseph was the only son; he grew up with three sisters, two other siblings had died shortly after birth. after high school in iglau (1879-1886) he attended the higher state trade school in brno (1887-1891), followed by a year's work in the military construction office in würzburg. in 1892 he came to vienna, where he became a student of carl von hasenauer at the academy of fine arts and from 1894 studied architecture with otto wagner. after his diploma (july 1895) he traveled to italy with a travel grant (rome prize). returning to vienna from capri, hoffmann entered wagner's studio in 1896/1897. from 1898 he worked as an independent architect and designer. as early as 1895, hoffmann was a member of the \"club of seven\" along with josef maria olbrich, koloman moser (kolo moser), c.o. czeschka and leo. in 1905 he left the vienna secession with the so-called \"klimt group\". in 1938/1939 and from 1945 to 1956 hoffmann was again a member of the secession and was the association's president from 1948 to 1950. from 1899 to 1936 hoffmann was a professor at the vienna school of applied arts (class for architecture). after 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sanatorium, which he built in 1903 with the help of berta zuckerkandl, hoffmann became one of the most important architects of the new architecture. hoffmann made his internationally recognized name by building the palais stoclet in brussels, a masterpiece of post-impressionism and symbolism (1905-1911), in the interior design of which gustav klimt played a key role. in vienna, hoffmann designed, among other things, the business portal of k. and k. court and state printing office (1908), the interior design of the \"fledermaus\" cabaret (1909) and the renovation of the graben café (1912). he designed the austrian pavilion for the cologne werkbund exhibition in 1914 as well as for the arts and crafts exhibition in paris in 1925. after the first world war he built residential complexes for the city of vienna from 1924, for example the winarskyhof and the klosehof. in 1929 he designed a project for an art gallery on karlsplatz, which was never realised. he built houses 8, 9, 10 and 11 in 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\n (pirnitz 1870 - 1956 vienna) \n stem glas \n pencil and indian ink/paper, 21,9 x 30,2 cm \n signed hoffmann, monogrammed jh \n mounted on cardboard \n verso inscribed no 4, twice stamped atelier ob. baur. prof. arch. dr. h.c. josef hoffmann \n provenance: carla hoffmann, private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 500 - 1.000 \n \n austrian architect, interior designer, craftsman and designer. along with otto wagner and adolf loos, is considered the most important architect of the 20th century in austria. studied architecture at the academy of fine arts under otto wagner. in 1895, with josef maria olbrich, carl otto czeschka, koloman moser and leo kainradl, member of the club of seven. founded the vienna secession in 1987 with gustav klimt, koloman moser, josef maria olbrich, maximilian kurzweil, josef engelhart, ernst stöhr, wilhelm list, adolf hölzel as a split from the künstlerhaus. 1899 to 1936 professor at the vienna school of applied arts. founded the wiener werkstätte with kolo moser in 1903. 1912 founding member of the wiener werkbund. designed many exhibitions, co-founder of the kunstschau. initially influenced by french art noveau, later influenced by scottish architect mackintosh and the british arts and crafts movement. interested in the implementation of spatial art and the idea of the gesamtkunstwerk. architectural designs for, among others, sanatorium purkersdorf 1903, palais stoclet in brussels 1905-1911, interior design cabaret fledermaus 1909, villa skywa-primavesi 1913-1915, austria pavilion for cologne werkbundsiedlung 1914, austria pavilion arts and crafts exhibition in paris 1925. also created designs for interiors, furniture, tables, chairs, boxes, display cases, fabrics, tableware, cutlery, lamps, chandeliers, vases, decorations, etc. \n \n the architect, designer, teacher and exhibition organizer josef hoffmann (1870-1956) is one of the central figures of viennese modernism and the international life reform movement around 1900. he is one of the most important austrian architects of all. his work, which spans six decades, has been honored with numerous national and international awards. josef hoffmann was born as josef franz maria hoffmann in pirnitz and grew up in a well-to-do family. the father josef hoffmann was mayor and co-owner of a textile factory; the mother leopoldine hoffmann, née tuppy, ran the household with many children. joseph was the only son; he grew up with three sisters, two other siblings had died shortly after birth. after high school in iglau (1879-1886) he attended the higher state trade school in brno (1887-1891), followed by a year's work in the military construction office in würzburg. in 1892 he came to vienna, where he became a student of carl von hasenauer at the academy of fine arts and from 1894 studied architecture with otto wagner. after his diploma (july 1895) he traveled to italy with a travel grant (rome prize). returning to vienna from capri, hoffmann entered wagner's studio in 1896/1897. from 1898 he worked as an independent architect and designer. as early as 1895, hoffmann was a member of the \"club of seven\" along with josef maria olbrich, koloman moser (kolo moser), c.o. czeschka and leo. in 1905 he left the vienna secession with the so-called \"klimt group\". in 1938/1939 and from 1945 to 1956 hoffmann was again a member of the secession and was the association's president from 1948 to 1950. from 1899 to 1936 hoffmann was a professor at the vienna school of applied arts (class for architecture). after his (involuntary) retirement, he received a teaching positions at the university of applied arts (1937) and the academy of fine arts (1946-1947). on may 1, 1903, he also founded the wiener werkstätte together with kolo moser and with the support of the banker fritz waerndorfer, for whom hoffmann remodeled his villa at weimarer strasse 45 in 1903/1904. in addition, josef hoffmann was a founding member of the austrian werkbund in 1912. from 1903 to 1922 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architect, interior designer, craftsman and designer. along with otto wagner and adolf loos, is considered the most important architect of the 20th century in austria. studied architecture at the academy of fine arts under otto wagner. in 1895, with josef maria olbrich, carl otto czeschka, koloman moser and leo kainradl, member of the club of seven. founded the vienna secession in 1987 with gustav klimt, koloman moser, josef maria olbrich, maximilian kurzweil, josef engelhart, ernst stöhr, wilhelm list, adolf hölzel as a split from the künstlerhaus. 1899 to 1936 professor at the vienna school of applied arts. founded the wiener werkstätte with kolo moser in 1903. 1912 founding member of the wiener werkbund. designed many exhibitions, co-founder of the kunstschau. initially influenced by french art noveau, later influenced by scottish architect mackintosh and the british arts and crafts movement. interested in the implementation of spatial art and the idea of the gesamtkunstwerk. 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20th century in austria. studied architecture at the academy of fine arts under otto wagner. in 1895, with josef maria olbrich, carl otto czeschka, koloman moser and leo kainradl, member of the club of seven. founded the vienna secession in 1987 with gustav klimt, koloman moser, josef maria olbrich, maximilian kurzweil, josef engelhart, ernst stöhr, wilhelm list, adolf hölzel as a split from the künstlerhaus. 1899 to 1936 professor at the vienna school of applied arts. founded the wiener werkstätte with kolo moser in 1903. 1912 founding member of the wiener werkbund. designed many exhibitions, co-founder of the kunstschau. initially influenced by french art noveau, later influenced by scottish architect mackintosh and the british arts and crafts movement. interested in the implementation of spatial art and the idea of the gesamtkunstwerk. architectural designs for, among others, sanatorium purkersdorf 1903, palais stoclet in brussels 1905-1911, interior design cabaret fledermaus 1909, villa skywa-primavesi 1913-1915, austria pavilion for cologne werkbundsiedlung 1914, austria pavilion arts and crafts exhibition in paris 1925. also created designs for interiors, furniture, tables, chairs, boxes, display cases, fabrics, tableware, cutlery, lamps, chandeliers, vases, decorations, etc. \n \n the architect, designer, teacher and exhibition organizer josef hoffmann (1870-1956) is one of the central figures of viennese modernism and the international life reform movement around 1900. he is one of the most important austrian architects of all. his work, which spans six decades, has been honored with numerous national and international awards. josef hoffmann was born as josef franz maria hoffmann in pirnitz and grew up in a well-to-do family. the father josef hoffmann was mayor and co-owner of a textile factory; the mother leopoldine hoffmann, née tuppy, ran the household with many children. joseph was the only son; he grew up with three sisters, two other siblings had died shortly after birth. after high school in iglau (1879-1886) he attended the higher state trade school in brno (1887-1891), followed by a year's work in the military construction office in würzburg. in 1892 he came to vienna, where he became a student of carl von hasenauer at the academy of fine arts and from 1894 studied architecture with otto wagner. after his diploma (july 1895) he traveled to italy with a travel grant (rome prize). returning to vienna from capri, hoffmann entered wagner's studio in 1896/1897. from 1898 he worked as an independent architect and designer. as early as 1895, hoffmann was a member of the \"club of seven\" along with josef maria olbrich, koloman moser (kolo moser), c.o. czeschka and leo. in 1905 he left the vienna secession with the so-called \"klimt group\". in 1938/1939 and from 1945 to 1956 hoffmann was again a member of the secession and was the association's president from 1948 to 1950. from 1899 to 1936 hoffmann was a professor at the vienna school of applied arts (class for architecture). after his (involuntary) retirement, he received a teaching positions at the university of applied arts (1937) and the academy of fine arts (1946-1947). on may 1, 1903, he also founded the wiener werkstätte together with kolo moser and with the support of the banker fritz waerndorfer, for whom hoffmann remodeled his villa at weimarer strasse 45 in 1903/1904. in addition, josef hoffmann was a founding member of the austrian werkbund in 1912. from 1903 to 1922 hoffmann was married to anna hladik. their son wolfgang, with whom he had a difficult relationship throughout his life, was born in 1900. in 1925 josef hoffmann married karla (carla) schmatz. hoffmann's students included carl witzmann, oswald haerdtl and otto prutscher. in addition to his teaching activities, hoffmann designed many exhibitions and was also a co-founder of the \"kunstschau\". hoffmann developed a lively building activity in vienna, which reached its peak in the years before the first world war. with the purkersdorf sanatorium, which he built in 1903 with the help of berta zuckerkandl, hoffmann became one of the most important architects of the new architecture. hoffmann made his internationally recognized name by building the palais stoclet in brussels, a masterpiece of post-impressionism and symbolism (1905-1911), in the interior design of which gustav klimt played a key role. in vienna, hoffmann designed, among other things, the business portal of k. and k. court and state printing office (1908), the interior design of the \"fledermaus\" cabaret (1909) and the renovation of the graben café (1912). he designed the austrian pavilion for the cologne werkbund exhibition in 1914 as well as for the arts and crafts exhibition in paris in 1925. after the first world war he built residential complexes for the city of vienna from 1924, for example the winarskyhof and the klosehof. in 1929 he designed a project for an art gallery on karlsplatz, which was never realised. he built houses 8, 9, 10 and 11 in the werkbundsiedlung. entrusted with the construction of the house of the wehrmacht in vienna."},"estimateMax":800,"lotNumber":"39","title":{"de":"josef hoffmann* (pirnitz 1870 - 1956 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17536/view","tags":["daFineart_DrawingsandPastels","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":400,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":800,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:23.303Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac400 - \u20ac800","currency":"EUR","id":17536,"estimateMin":400},{"startPrice":500,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17537/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17537/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"erwin stolz* (kyselka 1896 - 1987 vienna)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"erwin stolz* \n (kyselka 1896 - 1987 vienna) \n hunter in the forest \n indian ink/paper, 25 x 20 cm \n provenance: carla hoffmann, private property vienna \n provenance: estate of the artist, private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 700 - 1.000 \n \n austrian painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. began painting after the first world war as an autodidact, as a sign painter and industrial graphic artist. maintained contacts with gustav kurt beck, erich mallina, george kenner, alexander rothaug and the artists of the hagenbund. was friends with josef matthiaus hauser from arnold schönberg's circle. stylistically assigned to art nouveau and symbolism, interested in mysticism, mythology and theosophy. significant influences from max klinger and gustav klimt. created mystical scenes and fairytale motifs, representations of man and nature such as the hunter. \n \n the present pen and ink drawings are particularly impressive and effective, in which stolz completely discarded the coloring in favor of a radical black-and-white aesthetic. the leaves are characterized by their ornamental-decorative appeal and their mystical-symbolic depth. the thought arises that the artist was inspired by material from the world of legends or mythology in the design of this group of works with an apparently narrative character, which deals with an archer conceived as a naked youth and a swan in a dreamlike, strange arcadian landscape."},"estimateMax":1000,"lotNumber":"40","title":{"de":"erwin stolz* (kyselka 1896 - 1987 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17537/view","tags":["daFineart_DrawingsandPastels","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":500,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:23.307Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac700 - 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gustav klimt, koloman moser, josef maria olbrich, maximilian kurzweil, josef engelhart, ernst stöhr, wilhelm list, adolf hölzel as a split from the künstlerhaus. 1899 to 1936 professor at the vienna school of applied arts. founded the wiener werkstätte with kolo moser in 1903. 1912 founding member of the wiener werkbund. designed many exhibitions, co-founder of the kunstschau. initially influenced by french art noveau, later influenced by scottish architect mackintosh and the british arts and crafts movement. interested in the implementation of spatial art and the idea of the gesamtkunstwerk. architectural designs for, among others, sanatorium purkersdorf 1903, palais stoclet in brussels 1905-1911, interior design cabaret fledermaus 1909, villa skywa-primavesi 1913-1915, austria pavilion for cologne werkbundsiedlung 1914, austria pavilion arts and crafts exhibition in paris 1925. also created designs for interiors, furniture, tables, chairs, boxes, display cases, fabrics, tableware, cutlery, lamps, chandeliers, vases, decorations, etc. \n \n the present pen and ink drawings are particularly impressive and effective, in which stolz completely discarded the coloring in favor of a radical black-and-white aesthetic. the leaves are characterized by their ornamental-decorative appeal and their mystical-symbolic depth. the thought arises that the artist was inspired by material from the world of legends or mythology in the design of this group of works with an apparently narrative character, which deals with an archer conceived as a naked youth and a swan in a dreamlike, strange arcadian landscape. the \u201carcher\u201d stretches his bow in front of a floral background draped in an art nouveau decorative manner."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"41","title":{"de":"erwin stolz* (kyselka 1896 - 1987 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world war i as a self-taught sign painter and industrial graphic artist. maintained contacts with gustav kurt beck, erich mallina, george kenner, alexander rothaug and the artists of the hagenbund. he was friends with josef matthiaus hauser from the circle of arnold schönberg. stylistically to be assigned to art nouveau and symbolism, interest in mysticism, mythology and theosophy. clear influences of max klinger and gustav klimt. created mystical scenes and fairy-tale motifs, depictions of man and nature in harmony, male nudes bathing. \n \n the present pen and ink drawings are particularly impressive and effective, in which stolz completely discarded the coloring in favor of a radical black-and-white aesthetic. the leaves are characterized by their ornamental-decorative appeal and their mystical-symbolic depth. the thought arises that the artist was inspired by material from the world of legends or mythology in the design of this group of works with an apparently narrative character, which deals with an archer conceived as a naked youth and a swan in a dreamlike, strange arcadian landscape."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"42","title":{"de":"erwin stolz* (kyselka 1896 - 1987 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17539/view","tags":["daFineart_DrawingsandPastels","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":600,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":600,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:18.886Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac800 - \u20ac1,500","currency":"EUR","id":17539,"estimateMin":800},{"startPrice":600,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17540/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17540/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"erwin stolz* (kyselka 1896 - 1987 vienna)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"erwin stolz* \n (kyselka 1896 - 1987 vienna) \n young man with swan \n indian ink and pencil/paper, 21,5 x 17 cm \n provenance: estate of the artist, private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 800 - 1.500 \n \n austrian painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. started painting after world war i as a self-taught sign painter and industrial graphic artist. maintained contacts with gustav kurt beck, erich mallina, george kenner, alexander rothaug and the artists of the hagenbund. he was friends with josef matthiaus hauser from the circle of arnold schönberg. stylistically to be assigned to art nouveau and symbolism, interest in mysticism, mythology and theosophy. clear influences of max klinger and gustav klimt. created mystical scenes and fairy-tale motifs, depictions of man and nature in harmony, male nudes and animal depictions such as young man with swan. \n \n the present pen and ink drawings are particularly impressive and effective, in which stolz completely discarded the coloring in favor of a radical black-and-white aesthetic. the leaves are characterized by their ornamental-decorative appeal and their mystical-symbolic depth. the thought arises that the artist was inspired by material from the world of legends or mythology in the design of this group of works with an apparently narrative character, which deals with an archer conceived as a naked youth and a swan in a dreamlike, strange arcadian landscape. the youth, who has just killed the swan, approaches his victim with a capriciously raised left forearm with almost timid grace. he may have regrets, like the sailor who hunted down the albatross in samuel taylor coleridge's rime of the ancient mariner. the dying or already dead swan raises its right wing accusingly and thus points to the height from which it fell and beyond earthly existence. the tall, slender trees in the background follow this upward movement."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"43","title":{"de":"erwin stolz* (kyselka 1896 - 1987 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neutitschein in moravia, from 1904 in vienna. studied with oskar kokoschka at the school of arts and crafts, moved to the academy of fine arts to heinrich lefler, rudolf bacher and alois delug. there he met sebastian isepp and franz wiegele, and with isepp he frequented the salons of eugenie schwarzwald and berta zuckerkandl. founded the neukunstgruppe in 1909 with egon schiele, albert paris gürtersloh, anton faistauer and franz wiegele. married franz wiegele's sister in 1912. showed his works for the first time together with oskar kokoschka, anton faistauer, sebastian isepp and frnaz wiegele at the hagenbund exhibition in 1911. on the recommendation of gustav klimt and carl moll scholarship for paris. as a war painter in the first world war. created tapestries and mosaics for the festspielhaus in salzburg and frescoes for the landhaus in klagenfurt in the 1920s. together with sebastian isepp, anton mahringer and franz wiegele in the artists' group nötscher kreis with its domicile in nötsch in the gail valley in carinthia. from 1928 professor at the academy in stuttgart, member of the prague secession. \n \n born as the son of an interior and church painter from neutitschein in northern moravia, anton kolig received his artistic training in vienna at both the school of applied arts and the academy of fine arts. franz wiegele and sebastian isepp, both from nötsch im gailtal, were soon among the most important acquaintances of the young kolig, who developed a particularly enthusiasm for them. this fascination with the virile also characterized kolig's relationship to his male nude models in the years that followed. after the end of the first world war, kolig settled in nötsch, where countless male nudes were created between 1918 and 1928, just as his graphic work is almost exclusively dedicated to male nude drawings. more than a thousand such sheets are known today. in his letters, too, he mentions drawing a lot. during his professorship in stuttgart from 1928 to 1943, he had countless models at his disposal, which he recorded in rarely dated drawings. he partially destroyed them again, as he wrote to his friend, the art historian bruno grimschitz, on june 27, 1947: rage in the studio today - mountains of drawings burned. in koligs stuttgart period his works are marked by clear contours and accuracy in these nude drawings. he studies his models from an oblique top view, whereby the gaze leads from the foot upwards over the flaccid genitals and the modeling of the male upper body to the head design. only a few lines of construction and perspective run through the composition. this certainty in the reproduction of the body language details and the modeling is astounding in view of the necessary foreshortening and overlapping perspectives. in addition, the drawing does not reveal any struggle for the line and the form: everything seems captured at lightning speed. we now know that kolig also used photos as a tool to fix poses that were difficult to assume and maintain. this made it easier for him to study the movement and the pause of the models, which he described as yearning or melancholy and thoughtful youths, in more detail."},"estimateMax":5000,"lotNumber":"44","title":{"de":"anton kolig (neutitschein 1886 - 1950 nötsch)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17541/view","tags":["daFineart_DrawingsandPastels","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":2000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:18.890Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac3,000 - \u20ac5,000","currency":"EUR","id":17541,"estimateMin":3000},{"startPrice":800,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17542/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17542/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"gertraud reinberger-brausewetter* (vienna 1903 . 1992)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"gertraud reinberger- brausewetter* \n (vienna 1903 . 1992) \n sunset, 1925 \n woodcut/paper, 79 x 44,5 cm \n signed gertraud reinberger, dated 1925 and inscribed sonnenuntergang handdruck \n provenance: private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 800 - 1.500 \n \n austrian artist of the 20th century. studied at the school of arts and crafts in the youth art class of franz cizek, there contact with kinetism. occupied with theosophy, antroposophy and religious themes. from 1915 for several years associated with the writer gustav meyrink. in 1931 the albertina purchased 58 woodcuts, a year later participation in the exhibition christian art in the secession in vienna. after cizek's death, 1946 to 1948, head of the youth art class. stylistic development between fin de siècle, art nouveau and art deco, interest in ornament, line, rhythm, light and shadow. female nudes, women, themes around love, life, death, closeness, tenderness, symbolic and iconic representations. created mainly woodcuts, figural representations comparable to carry hauser. \n \n the viennese graphic artist and woodcut artist gertraud reinberger-brausewetter is one of franz čižek's lesser-known students at the vienna school of applied arts. she was born as the second eldest of four siblings in the master builder family brausewetter, founders of the still existing company pittel & brausewetter, and at the age of 14 she was already in the youth class of čižek, which she was to direct after his death from 1946 to 1948. the first major artistic commission for the eleven-year-old was the annunciation scene, which was still entirely committed to art nouveau and was executed in tempera technique in 1914 in the porch of the church of st. othmar in mödling, which her father had built in 1904. in 1916 she made her first woodcuts. after the end of the first world war she returned to čižek at the school of applied arts, where she studied in the modern art department until 1921 and subsequently dealt with theosophical and anthroposophical themes. these woodcuts also date to the 1920s, some of which are still rooted in the ornamental practice of secession art and art deco. the present picture shows a sleeping female figure with closed eyes and bowed head. night, sleep and dreams are discussed as different reality and mirrors of human consciousness. according to anthroposophical understanding, the \"dream consciousness\" is a transformed rudiment of the \"image consciousness\" that man had on the \"old moon\". the dream is associated with vivid images and intense feelings, the ego-consciousness in the dream is only vaguely present, since the dream does not sufficiently differentiate between inside and outside: \"we swim together with our dream world and cannot really distinguish ourselves from it.\" the surreal moment is particularly expressed in \"sunset\" through the hair, in which the otherwise naked woman is partially wrapped and which must have reminded the artist, inspired by christian imagery, of the depictions of mary magdalene, which go back to the legenda aurea. a mystical power seems to emanate from the setting sun, which is reflected in the lake and illuminates the scene. the fact that the stars are already in the sky takes the scene further away from the sphere of waking everyday reality."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"45","title":{"de":"gertraud reinberger-brausewetter* (vienna 1903 . 1992)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17542/view","tags":["daFineart_PrintsandMultiples","daDecorativeArts_ArtNouveauandArtDeco","daDecorativeArts_all","daDecorativeArts","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":800,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:18.892Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac800 - 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returned as a pacifist. befriended franz theodor csokor and promoted by arthur roessler. member of the artist group freie bewegung and from 1925 to 1938 member of the hagenbund. lived temporarily in passau, together with georg philipp wörlen, reinhard hilker, fritz fuhrken and franz bronstert in the artist group der fels. from 1922 married to the classical philologist gertrude herzog-hauser. during the second world war in exile in switzerland, wife and son fled to the netherlands. from 1947 again involved in cultural reconstruction in vienna. secretary general and vice president of the p.e.n. club, honorary president of the new hagenbund. stylistic development from classical, academic training through early expressionism to new objectivity. themes such as love, death, eros, narrative representations, religious themes. from the mid-1960s, travels to africa, increasingly african motifs. man and nature away from western civilization in the jungle, in the jungle. originality and innocence of children and boys in the african bush. \n \n carry hauser was born as karl maria hauser on february 16, 1895 in vienna. his father is an official in the ministry of the imperial house and foreign affairs, his mother maria hauser, née linke, the daughter of a moravian landowner. carry hauser and his brother heinz, who is three years his senior, are initially taught at home by their mother, who is a teacher. hauser grew up in an art-interested environment of the viennese educated middle class, with frequent visits to the theater and exhibitions. from 1905 to 1910 he attended the schottengymnasium in vienna and then switched to the graphic teaching and research institute for two years. at the same time, he completed an evening course in ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek at the school of applied arts. 1912 carry hauser attended the school of applied arts for two years, first in general form theory with oskar strnad and in the second year in nature studies with adolf böhm. during this time he received basic artistic training in the general department under the direction of alfred roller, which was characterized by extensive practical workshop training using a wide variety of techniques. he also attends the evening nude class with oskar kokoschka, the class for nude studies with anton von kenner, ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek and writing and heraldry with rudolf von larisch. in november 1914 he left the school of arts and crafts early, after passing all the exams, and in the same month he volunteered in the army with the deutschmeister regiment as k. and k. deutschmeister. after training as an officer, he was transferred to the first infantry regiment in austria-silesia, where he did his military service in present-day poland, ukraine and the czech republic. towards the end of the war he stayed in chernivtsi and worked on pictures for a regiment exhibition. the experiences of the war, the contact to intellectual and pacifist circles and above all the death of his brother heinz shaped him and allowed him to emerge from the war as a pacifist. back in vienna after the end of the war, hauser established contacts with the art historian, art critic and collector arthur roessler and the playwright franz theodor csokor, for whom he designed stage sets and costumes. hauser is a founding and executive member (until 1922) of the artists' association die freie bewegungs (the free movement), which organizes exhibitions of international contemporary art. at the same time, he works as an artist for the wiener graphische werkstätte publishing house, which mainly publishes modern austrian literature. from the very beginning he devoted himself intensively to theater and literature in addition to the fine arts. in october 1919, carry hauser had his first personal exhibition in the house of the young artists. the modern art of the interwar period has fallen into oblivion and young artists orientate themselves towards international trends and the conservative taste in art of the national socialists is increasingly harder to shake off. hauser begins to campaign for the reconstruction of the modern art and cultural landscape of his homeland. he follows the events of the art club and is involved in the founding of the new hagenbund. he intensified his collaboration with theater and literary circles and from 1947 to 1973 he was a member of the austrian p.e.n. clubs, of which he became general secretary in 1952 and where he also served as vice president until 1972. in 1947, a personal exhibition with 50 works from the period after 1938 took place in lincoln, usa. in 1949 he received the city of vienna prize for graphics and applied arts. in 1951 he resigned as president of the new hagenbund due to internal disagreements. in 1952 he was a member of the professional association of austrian resistance fighters and victims of fascism. co-founder and temporarily vice-president of the professional association of austrian visual artists, member of the board of trustees of the documentation archive of the austrian resistance and president of the action against anti-semitism as well as president of the federation of modern visual artists in austria. in the 1950s he drew the illustrations for the book das weltbild der moderne by karl renner and worked on several ceramic mosaics for the municipality of vienna (including voltagasse 1210 vienna, märzstraße 1150 vienna, theresienbad 1120 vienna, simonygasse 1180 vienna). from the 1960s on, carry hauser regularly travels to croatia, israel and above all to africa. numerous sketches are created on these trips, in which he captures nature and the local people. at the same time he takes part in international exhibitions, in 1960 in the kunstverein braunschweig and in the galerie de bourgogne in paris, in 1964 a personal exhibition in jerusalem follows. one year later, in 1965, he received the golden medal of honor and in 1985 the ring of honor of the city of vienna. until the end of his life, it was above all the experiences of his travels to afrika that had the greatest impact on his artistic work. his love for africa began in 1967 with a cruise on a cargo steamer via gibraltar and the suez canal to south africa. several stays in east and west africa followed, e.g. in freetown in sierra leone, in mombasa in kenya, in cameroon, on zanzibar in tanzania, on djerba and in tunis. hauser finds something in africa that he probably misses in his homeland and describes it in the following words: \"...africa has a substance - the africans have a substance - that has grabbed me, so that everything i've written lately , what i painted has to do with africa and came out of this african experience, because i see something here that i think is a view of the world...\""},"estimateMax":8000,"lotNumber":"46","title":{"de":"carry hauser* (vienna 1895 - 1985 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widder vienna \n \n \n estimate \u20ac 5.000 - 10.000 \n \n austrian painter, stage designer, poet, writer of the 20th century. studied at the school of applied arts in vienna under alfred roller, oskar strnad, anton von kenner and adolf michael boehm. in 1914 he volunteered for the first world war and returned as a pacifist. befriended franz theodor csokor and promoted by arthur roessler. member of the artist group freie bewegung and from 1925 to 1938 member of the hagenbund. lived temporarily in passau, together with georg philipp wörlen, reinhard hilker, fritz fuhrken and franz bronstert in the artist group der fels. from 1922 married to the classical philologist gertrude herzog-hauser. during the second world war in exile in switzerland, wife and son fled to the netherlands. from 1947 again involved in cultural reconstruction in vienna. secretary general and vice president of the p.e.n. club, honorary president of the new hagenbund. stylistic development from classical, academic training through early expressionism to new objectivity. themes such as love, death, eros, narrative representations, religious themes. from the mid-1960s, travels to africa, increasingly african motifs. man and nature away from western civilization in the jungle, in the jungle. originality and innocence of children and boys, as here also self-portrait in the middle of the african bush. \n \n carry hauser was born as karl maria hauser on february 16, 1895 in vienna. his father is an official in the ministry of the imperial house and foreign affairs, his mother maria hauser, née linke, the daughter of a moravian landowner. carry hauser and his brother heinz, who is three years his senior, are initially taught at home by their mother, who is a teacher. hauser grew up in an art-interested environment of the viennese educated middle class, with frequent visits to the theater and exhibitions. from 1905 to 1910 he attended the schottengymnasium in vienna and then switched to the graphic teaching and research institute for two years. at the same time, he completed an evening course in ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek at the school of applied arts. 1912 carry hauser attended the school of applied arts for two years, first in general form theory with oskar strnad and in the second year in nature studies with adolf böhm. during this time he received basic artistic training in the general department under the direction of alfred roller, which was characterized by extensive practical workshop training using a wide variety of techniques. he also attends the evening nude class with oskar kokoschka, the class for nude studies with anton von kenner, ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek and writing and heraldry with rudolf von larisch. in november 1914 he left the school of arts and crafts early, after passing all the exams, and in the same month he volunteered in the army with the deutschmeister regiment as k. and k. deutschmeister. after training as an officer, he was transferred to the first infantry regiment in austria-silesia, where he did his military service in present-day poland, ukraine and the czech republic. towards the end of the war he stayed in chernivtsi and worked on pictures for a regiment exhibition. the experiences of the war, the contact to intellectual and pacifist circles and above all the death of his brother heinz shaped him and allowed him to emerge from the war as a pacifist. back in vienna after the end of the war, hauser established contacts with the art historian, art critic and collector arthur roessler and the playwright franz theodor csokor, for whom he designed stage sets and costumes. hauser is a founding and executive member (until 1922) of the artists' association die freie bewegungs (the free movement), which organizes exhibitions of international contemporary art. at the same time, he works as an artist for the wiener graphische werkstätte publishing house, which mainly publishes modern austrian literature. from the very beginning he devoted himself intensively to theater and literature in addition to the fine arts. in october 1919, carry hauser had his first personal exhibition in the house of the young artists. the modern art of the interwar period has fallen into oblivion and young artists orientate themselves towards international trends and the conservative taste in art of the national socialists is increasingly harder to shake off. hauser begins to campaign for the reconstruction of the modern art and cultural landscape of his homeland. he follows the events of the art club and is involved in the founding of the new hagenbund. he intensified his collaboration with theater and literary circles and from 1947 to 1973 he was a member of the austrian p.e.n. clubs, of which he became general secretary in 1952 and where he also served as vice president until 1972. in 1947, a personal exhibition with 50 works from the period after 1938 took place in lincoln, usa. in 1949 he received the city of vienna prize for graphics and applied arts. in 1951 he resigned as president of the new hagenbund due to internal disagreements. in 1952 he was a member of the professional association of austrian resistance fighters and victims of fascism. co-founder and temporarily vice-president of the professional association of austrian visual artists, member of the board of trustees of the documentation archive of the austrian resistance and president of the action against anti-semitism as well as president of the federation of modern visual artists in austria. in the 1950s he drew the illustrations for the book das weltbild der moderne by karl renner and worked on several ceramic mosaics for the municipality of vienna (including voltagasse 1210 vienna, märzstraße 1150 vienna, theresienbad 1120 vienna, simonygasse 1180 vienna). from the 1960s on, carry hauser regularly travels to croatia, israel and above all to africa. numerous sketches are created on these trips, in which he captures nature and the local people. at the same time he takes part in international exhibitions, in 1960 in the kunstverein braunschweig and in the galerie de bourgogne in paris, in 1964 a personal exhibition in jerusalem follows. one year later, in 1965, he received the golden medal of honor and in 1985 the ring of honor of the city of vienna. until the end of his life, it was above all the experiences of his travels to afrika that had the greatest impact on his artistic work. his love for africa began in 1967 with a cruise on a cargo steamer via gibraltar and the suez canal to south africa. several stays in east and west africa followed, e.g. in freetown in sierra leone, in mombasa in kenya, in cameroon, on zanzibar in tanzania, on djerba and in tunis. hauser finds something in africa that he probably misses in his homeland and describes it in the following words: \"...africa has a substance - the africans have a substance - that has grabbed me, so that everything i've written lately , what 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nudes \n oil/canvas/board, 72 x 38,5 cm \n monogrammed m. a. \n provenance: gallery döbele ravensburg, gallery w. klopfer zurich 1985, fischer auction luzern 2008, european private collection \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 8.000 - 15.000 \n \n german painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. student of adolf hölzel, considered a pioneer of abstract painting. began an apprenticeship as a porcelain modeller, from 1906 on the recommendation of henry van de velde in the arts and crafts seminar in weimar. worked with marble and stone. from 1908 in richard müller's drawing class in dresden, from 1909 with franz von stuck at the academy of fine arts in munich. became a student of adolf hölzel there, interested in abstract painting. participation in the exhibition of the üecht group. in the 1920s in stuttgart, teaching workshop for contemporary art, contact with the dancer and choreographer rudolf von laban from monte verita in ascona. member of the athletics team, created several sports pictures. in paris he met adolf loos. 1928 contact with george grosz and wassily kandinsky in the kunsthaus schaller, 1929 participation in the exhibition for the vagabond congress in stuttgart. from 1930 he directed a seminar for absolute painting in stuttgart, in 1932 he exhibited with ernst heinrich graeser and hans molfenter. from 1936 in the höri district, moved to hornstaad on lake constance and painted in hemmenhofen. in 1937 five pictures by ackermann were confiscated from the württemberg state gallery in stuttgart as degenerate art. from 1951 member of the german association of artists. initially veristic and socially critical painting, interested in communism. development in the direction of abstract painting and constructivism, is considered a painter of the color blue. extensive graphic work, especially screen prints in collaboration with luitpold domberger, hans-peter haas and roland geiger. also nudes, interest in dance, shapes and color 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oil/canvas, 80,5 x 60,3 cm \n monogrammed pm \n provenance: private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 3.000 - 4.000 \n \n austrian painter of the 20th century. studied at the academy of fine arts with ferdinand andri, 1934 and 1935 studied in italy with giorgio de chirico and upaldo oppi. member and long-time president of the vienna secession. member of the darmstadt secession and the graz secession. in 1948 was commissioned by the city council of culture viktor matejka his most famous painting the miracle team, depicting the austrian national soccer team. initially neoclassical style, development between cubism, symbolism and realism. themes such as questions of the meaning of life, golgotha images and hiroshima cycle, nudes. from 1960s dissolution of forms and turn to abstract painting. \n \n paul meissner's painting \"on the terrace\" presents itself as mysterious and fascinating at the same time. here meissner not only juggles with various traditional iconographic motifs, but also processes the most diverse stylistic influences. at first glance, this juxtaposition of female nudes and the bourgeois appearance of a pipe-smoking bald man reminds us of painted balcony scenes in the oeuvre of the french impressionist edouard manet. this impression is underscored by the faded-in section of the facade with the large balcony windows. the juxtaposition of the model presenting himself naked and the mature man is familiar to us from the classic relationship between painter and model, but here there is no indication of artistic activity on the part of the man. there is only an open book in front of him. meissner's style of painting reveals a stylistic indecisiveness: while he approaches the new-objective sharpness of observation in the modeling of the slim, naked female figure, the dog painted in as a motif axis between her and the man sitting at the round table, which draws attention to the nude, could also be by max beckmann or lovis corinth. meissner also remained true to this stylistic flexibility in his late work, in which he worked on the possibilities of abstraction. in doing so, he remains true to the principle of permanent style change \u2013 from impressionism to realism, symbolism, expressionism and new objectivity to abstraction. as former president of the vienna secession, which he was for five periods between 1954 and 1975, meissner undoubtedly got to know the most diverse and respectively leading style fashions and probably also tested their adaptability for his own painting work, which at the beginning of his artistic career was still exclusively in figurative or figurative images is expressed. from 1925, meissner acquired the painting technique at the academy of fine arts in vienna, where he completed the general school and the master school under ferdinand andri. from 1934 he continued his education in italy with ubaldo oppi and giorgio de chirico. in 1969 he also had a very personal argument for turning to abstraction: \"i belong to the generation that began to paint abstractly because they saw the human grimace unveiled and no longer wanted to depict it.\""},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"49","title":{"de":"paul meissner* (vienna 1907 - 1983 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17546/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":3000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":3000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:18.909Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac3,000 - \u20ac4,000","currency":"EUR","id":17546,"estimateMin":3000},{"startPrice":700,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17547/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17547/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"hans knesl* (bad pirawarth 1905 - 1971 vienna)"},"soldDate":"2022-05-19","available":false,"description":{"de":"hans knesl* \n (bad pirawarth 1905 - 1971 vienna) \n striding woman, 1955 \n bronze, 52 x 24 x 15 cm \n signed knesel and dated 1955 \n provenance: collection gusel austria, private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 1.000 - 2.000 \n \n austrian sculptor of the 20th century, representative of modernism after 1950. already as a teenager interested in carving and sculptural representation. 1920 to 1924 training as a stonemason in lage in germany. then studied sculpture at the academy of fine arts with hans bitterlich. created portraits and models for the porcelain factory metzler & ortloff in thuringia. during the nazi era, his works were classified as degenerate art. from 1951 professor for sculpture at the academy of fine arts. stays in the waldviertel during the summer months, working with mühldorfer marble. development towards modern sculpture under the influence of cubism. sculptures made of marble, stone, concrete and bronze. development of an idealized figure type in the direction of a plastic form. classics of modern sculpture, forerunners of new realistic trends around alfred hrdlicka. 1986 founding of the sculpture park in bad pirawarth in honor of the artist."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"50","title":{"de":"hans knesl* (bad pirawarth 1905 - 1971 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17547/view","tags":["daFineart_Sculptures","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":700,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":1800,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:18.912Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,000 - \u20ac2,000","currency":"EUR","id":17547,"estimateMin":1000},{"startPrice":800,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17548/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17548/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"karl jetzinger* (st. martin 1933 - 2012 haidershofen)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"karl jetzinger* \n (st. martin 1933 - 2012 haidershofen) \n nude girl, 1979 \n wood, 70 x 20 x 14,2 cm \n signed karl jetzinger, monogrammed kj and dated 1979 \n provenance: collection gusel austria, private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 1.000 - 1.500 \n \n austrian sculptor of the 20th century, representative of modernism after 1950. studied sculpture at the academy of applied arts with hans knesl. many figures depict young people, children as memories of his own childhood. his works are characterized by simplicity and inwardness, many sculptures for churches in vienna. many figures like this girl nude are usually depicted barefoot, unclothed or in simple clothing, standing alone or in groups."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"51","title":{"de":"karl jetzinger* (st. martin 1933 - 2012 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fine arts in munich from 1943, called up for war in 1944. from 1946 studied at the academy of fine arts with fritz wotruba. in the 1950s and 1960s active in the field of art on buildings, created numerous sculptures for the municipal buildings of the city of vienna. from 1954 member of the vienna secession, from 1975 restorer at the kunsthistorisches museum in vienna. in 1957 participation in the sculpture biennial in antwerp and the triennial in madrid, in 1968 in the biennial of metal sculpture in warsaw. until 1953 figurative works mainly animal sculptures, then geometric sculptures. bronze sculptures in public spaces, such as horse 1953, ibis 1954, goat 1957, pelican fountain 1958, goose fountain 1959, abstract fountain 1958 and primens figures 1962, 1967, 1969."},"estimateMax":1200,"lotNumber":"52","title":{"de":"alois heidel* (vienna 1915 - 1990 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(figueres 1904 - 1989 figueres) \n venus à la giraffe \n bronze, 56,7 x 9,3 x 27,5 cm \n signed dalí and inscribed on the base euro art venturi arte and numbered 437/1000 \n provenance: collection gusel austria, private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 500 - 1.000 \n \n spanish painter, graphic artist, writer, sculptor, filmmaker and stage designer of the 20th century. important artist of modernism, representative of the avant-garde, main representative of surrealism. studied at the academy the san fernando in madrid from 1922, in the dormitory he met luis buñuel and federico garcía lorca. in 1926, first trip to paris and first contact with pablo picasso. at the suggestion of joan miró, he joined the group of surrealists around hans arp, andré breton, max ernst, yves tanguy, rené magritte, man ray, tristan tzara, paul éluard and his wife gala in paris in 1929. gala became his companion and muse, inspired him to depictions of venus and madonna, modeled for him as a nude. stylistic development between early impressionist attempts, influences of cubism, pointilism and futurism, to surrealism and dadaism. themes such as the encrypted, mystical, symbolic, the unconscious, dreams and fantasy worlds. fusion of dream and reality, man and animal as here in the bronze sculpture venus à la giraffe."},"estimateMax":1000,"lotNumber":"53","title":{"de":"salvador dalí* (figueres 1904 - 1989 figueres)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17550/view","tags":["daFineart_Sculptures","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":500,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":2700,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-10T03:24:23.286Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac500 - \u20ac1,000","currency":"EUR","id":17550,"estimateMin":500},{"startPrice":200,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17551/001/001.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"nach marc chagall* (peskowatik bei witebsk 1887 - 1985 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with scholarship of his patron maxim winawer in paris, already own studio near the gare montparnasse. in 1912 he moved into a studio in the artists' settlement founded by alfred boucher, cultivated contacts guillaume apollinaire, max jacob, blaise cendrars, robert delaunay, albert gleizes, fernand léger and amedeo modigliani. visited the louvre, impressed by fauvism and cubism studied the works of henri matisse, vincent van gogh and paul gauguin. took part in the salon des indépendants and the salon d'automne himself. from 1913 through herwarth walden also exhibitions in galerie sturm in berlin, then also contact with paul cassirer. 1919 founded the vitebsk art school, with representatives of the russian avant-garde such as kazimir malevich, el lissitzky, ivan albertovich puni and dawid jakerson as teachers. emigrated to the usa in 1941, there contact with fernand léger, piet mondrian and andré masson. 1948 return to france. themes of his representations come from the bible, circus and theater worlds and his love for paris. dreamlike and symbolic representations, floating lovers with recurring symbols such as the eiffel tower as a symbol of heaven and freedom and the rooster as a symbol of fertility."},"estimateMax":500,"lotNumber":"54","title":{"de":"nach marc chagall* (peskowatik bei witebsk 1887 - 1985 saint-paul-de-vence)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17551/view","tags":["daFineart_PrintsandMultiples","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":200,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":550,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-10T03:24:23.294Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac200 - \u20ac500","currency":"EUR","id":17551,"estimateMin":200},{"startPrice":200,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17552/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17552/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"nach pablo picasso* (málaga 1881 - 1973 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rusiñol, who met at the els quatre gats café and artists' center. from june 1898 he spent eight months with his painter friend manuel pallarès in the latter's hometown of horta de sant joan. in 1899 he met the poet jaime sabartés, who would become his close friend and in 1935 his secretary. in february 1900, first solo exhibition at els quatre gats. in 1901 he worked briefly for the magazine arte joven. then trip to paris: the art dealer pere mañach, the gallery owner berthe weill and the art dealer and publisher ambroise vollard made efforts to find picasso. in 1901 picasso dedicated the painting evocation - casagemas' funeral to his friend casagemas. acquaintance with gertrude and leo stein and with matisse. wilhelm uhde brought picasso to the attention of the young german gallery owner daniel-henry kahnweiler, who had opened his first gallery at 28 rue vignon. kahnweiler became his most important patron and exhibited picasso's works that same year. in germany, picasso was represented in the exhibition of the neue künstlervereinigung in munich in 1910, as well as in the sonderbund exhibition in cologne in 1912 and in herwarth walden's gallery der sturm in berlin. turned away from the cubists (1916-1924), came to terms with surrealism (1924-1936). 1923 picasso met the surrealist andré breton. 1928 appearance of the minotaur motif in his works. 1935 etching series minotauromachie, inspired by francisco de goya's tauromaquia. picasso is the creator of the paintings les desmoiselles d'avignon, a key image of classical modernism, and the monumental painting guernica (1937) about the horrors of the spanish civil war. extensive collections in museums in paris, barcelona and madrid. his turn to classical interpretations of masterpieces after world war ii was demonstrated by works such as women of algiers by eugène delacroix in 1955, diego velazquez's las meninas in 1957, and édouard manet's breakfast in the open air in 1961. as early as 1946, an exhibition at the louvre had juxtaposed his paintings with those of classical masters. picasso is prominently featured in many major art museums that exhibit 20th-century art. the museu picasso in barcelona and the musée picasso in antibes were established during his lifetime. picasso's dove, designed in 1949 for the paris world peace congress, became a symbol of peace worldwide."},"estimateMax":500,"lotNumber":"55","title":{"de":"nach pablo picasso* (málaga 1881 - 1973 mougins)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17552/view","tags":["daFineart_PrintsandMultiples","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":200,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":250,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-10T03:24:23.303Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac200 - 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studied together with gabriele münter at the munich ladies academy from 1899. 1905 to 1913 in paris like paula modersohn-becker and käthe kollwitz. 1913 moves to vienna. member of the artist group bewegung or freie bewegung, member of the group wiener frauenkunst and member of the deutscher künstlerbund. exhibited in paris at the salon des indépendants and the salon d'autom/autumn salon with henri matisse, george braque and maurice de vlaminck. contact with the fauves, involvement with impressionism, fauvism and expressionism. in vienna, participated in exhibitions of the vienna secession, the hagenbund, the künstlerhaus and the kunstschau. created confident portrayals of women, figural scenes, portraits of women, nudes, and still lifes. bathers, dancers, arcadian landscapes, metropolitan scenes in theaters with influences from asiatica and ancient egyptian mummy portraits. color explosions with high luminosity and great expressiveness comparable to helene taussig. subtle depictions of the human psyche comparable to egon schiele. 2007 first museum retrospective at lentos in linz, 2019 appreciation of the artist in the exhibition city of women at the austrian gallery belvedere. \n \n in 1913 helene funke moved to vienna, where she lived until her death. despite the criticism she received from domestic art critics, she presented her work in several exhibitions and was eventually even awarded the austrian state prize and the title of professor. in the course of her artistic career, she often had to struggle with discrimination against her male artist colleagues, which is why she became involved in the emancipation movement early on and stood up for equal rights for women. in vienna, she was a member of the \"vereinigung bildender künstlerinnen österreichs\" (association of women artists of austria) and, as a corresponding member from paris, participated in its first exhibition in 1910. funke was also represented with thirteen paintings in the second show in 1911 in the zedlitzhalle, the exhibition house of the hagenbund. her modern style, influenced by the fauves, caused a sensation and was appreciated by fellow austrian artists as a sign of progress. the depictions of women in helene funke's work, which play an essential role in her oeuvre, must be seen against this background. especially in her portraits she always tried to express the feelings of the sitter. in girl with lilies, the artist concentrates the motif in a narrow section of the picture. from the left edge, the girl leans into the picture and, through her hand holding a bunch of lilies, forms the frame of the composition downwards and towards the right edge. no details distract the viewer from the essentials, while the girl is seen smelling the blossoms with her head tilted and her gaze melancholy."},"estimateMax":30000,"lotNumber":"56","title":{"de":"helene funke* (chemnitz 1869 - 1957 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described as a pioneer of emancipation and feminism because of the depictions of women. born in chemnitz, studied together with gabriele münter at the munich ladies academy from 1899. 1905 to 1913 in paris like paula modersohn-becker and käthe kollwitz. 1913 moves to vienna. member of the artist group bewegung or freie bewegung, member of the group wiener frauenkunst and member of the deutscher künstlerbund. exhibited in paris at the salon des indépendants and the salon d'autom/autumn salon with henri matisse, george braque and maurice de vlaminck. contact with the fauves, involvement with impressionism, fauvism and expressionism. in vienna, participated in exhibitions of the vienna secession, the hagenbund, the künstlerhaus and the kunstschau. created confident portrayals of women, figural scenes, portraits of women, nudes, and still lifes. bathers, dancers, arcadian landscapes, metropolitan scenes in theaters with influences from asiatica and ancient egyptian mummy portraits. color explosions with high luminosity and great expressiveness comparable to helene taussig. subtle depictions of the human psyche comparable to egon schiele. 2007 first museum retrospective at lentos in linz, 2019 appreciation of the artist in the exhibition city of women at the austrian gallery belvedere. in contrast to the color-intensive paintings safe but delicate lines of the drawing, comparable to gustav klimt. \n \n born in chemnitz, saxony, the painter helene funke received her artistic training in munich from 1899 onwards at friedrich fehr's painting school and with angelo jank at the ladies' academy. from 1905 to 1913 she lived in paris and southern france. there she studied impressionism and french fauvism. in france she exhibited with henri matisse, georges braque and maurice de vlaminck, and her work was represented in the paris autumn salons between 1905 and 1913. most of her work created in france is unknown to researchers today. from 1913 until her death in 1957, she lived in vienna, where she soon established herself despite constant hostile criticism from the predominantly male art critics. the depiction of women and girls, regardless of technique, is a theme that occupies an important place in helen funke's work, especially between 1907 and 1930. the erotic in funke's work irritates contemporaries; erotic depictions of women are men's business. in the bending nude, a pencil study, however, the erotic is not in the foreground. the model has placed her right foot on a stool or footstool, which is not even hinted at in the drawing. the surrounding space remains completely undefined. funke is only interested in the contours of the woman and puts them on paper with a sure stroke."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"57","title":{"de":"helene funke* (chemnitz 1869 - 1957 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20th century. came to painting after world war i as a self-taught sign painter and industrial graphic artist. maintained contacts with gustav kurt beck, erich mallina, george kenner, alexander rothaug and the artists of the hagenbund. he was friends with josef matthiaus hauser from the circle of arnold schönberg. stylistically to be assigned to art nouveau and symbolism, interest in mysticism, mythology and theosophy. clear influences of max klinger and gustav klimt. created mystical scenes and fairy-tale motifs, depictions of man and nature in harmony. also impressions of travels to distant lands and motifs from the arabian nights such as the female nudes in the oriental steam bath dressed only in the hamam cloth. \n \n with this small-format painting, erwin stolz takes us into a hammam, a public bathing facility that forms an important part of oriental bathing and body culture in the former ottoman world and throughout the arab world. in islam there has always been a close connection between cleanliness and religion. the same applies to ritual ablutions: according to mohammed, not the \"smallest spot on the body\" must remain dry so that the dirt and with it the sins can drain away. in the center of the hammam there is usually a hot, marble room with the \"göbek taşı\", the \"navel stone\", in the middle. in the past, you walked through thick clouds of steam because the room was heated underground with wood: the resulting hot floor and hot water made helmuth von moltke, who was traveling to turkey, afraid in 1836 that he would get out again boiled. stolz, who only came to become a painter via detours, is less concerned with the special exotic oriental charm of this ambience than with the possibility of combining nudes and interiors with ornamental and decorative means. in the two female nudes, the artist therefore refrains from depicting an oriental woman, as is customary in the genre: the sitters in their bathing robes are europeans, who do not have to hide their modesty out of religious considerations or moral concerns. in the foreground on the right, a tall, slender female figure is emerging from the bath, only sparsely wrapped in a \"peştemal\", the hammam sheet. in the background, a half-naked female figure has sat down on a stool and is looking thoughtfully backwards. the scene has a classic solemnity that has nothing in common with the sultry atmosphere of such oriental baths. rather, stolz plays with the decorative and ornamental design options. this is offered to him, for example, in the background design with the oriental urban landscape bathed in blazing sunlight with its steeply piled houses. he also pays great attention to the material differentiation of the robes and floors. with this, stolz seems to have recalled his artistic beginnings as well as his stylistic roots in the art nouveau environment."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"58","title":{"de":"erwin stolz* (kyselka 1896 - 1987 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charitable trust, chiswick auctions gb, fine arts widder vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 5.000 - 8.000 \n \n austrian painter of the 20th century. representative of expressionism, belongs to the forgotten generation. her father came from the hungarian nobility, her mother from a jewish viennese banking family. she was the sister of the inventor of the radio tube robert hermann von lieben, her grandmother anna von lieben was one of the first patients of sigmund freund. her brother karl motesiczky, psychoanalyst and resistance fighter, died in auschwitz-birkenau in 1943. she attended the private art school of the czech artist carola machotka in den haar from 1922. studied at the städelschule in frankfurt am main with max beckmann, was her mentor and lifelong friend. held high regard for her and saw her as a successor to paula modersohn-becker. after the anschluss, she fled to amersham via the netherlands and london in 1938, and lived in london from 1945. deepened her acquaintance with oskar kokoschka. became a friend and lover of elias canetti. took many trips, including to mexico, where she met her childhood friend wolfgang paalen shortly before his death. received late recognition in 1985 through an exhibition at the london goethe institute on the initiative of hilde spiel, another exhibition in 1994 at the austrian gallery belvedere. created unadorned portraits of her mother, haunting self-portraits, and still lifes rich in symbolism. influence of teacher max beckmann also visible in the enigmatic selection and arrangement of objects, such as azalea, quill, teapot and pocket knife. \n \n my longing is to paint beautiful pictures, to be happy through it and to make other people happy, \" said marie-louise von motesiczky, explaining her tireless, always very personal, artistic work wich she continued into old age. for a long time, the artist was only perceived indirectly, as standing in the shadow of great men: as a student of max beckmann, an acquaintance of oskar kokoschka or a lover of elias canetti. only as a result of an extremely successful solo exhibition at the goethe institute in london in 1985 and a retrospective at the austrian gallery at belvedere vienna in 1994 and another at the vienna city museum in 2007 did she receive the place in the canon of great austrian artists of the 20th century that she undoubtedly deserves. her oeuvre, which consists mainly of still lifes, self-portraits and portraits and is committed to a constantly changing, increasingly lyrical, fractured expressionism, can definitely be considered autobiographical. she received a good artistic education at art schools in vienna, the hague, frankfurt am main, paris and berlin. from 1927 she studied at the städelschule in frankfurt in the master class of max beckmann, who remained her lifelong friend and mentor. she worked intensively in search of her own style; the hope of artistic recognition at home, however, was interrupted with the annexation of austria in 1938. motesiczky fled with her mother \u2013 her father had died young \u2013 first to the netherlands and then to england, where she lived and worked until her death. the still life with azalea breathes calm, charm and love. a nice red sealed letter can be seen. it lies open and read on the cluttered bureau. the sender also sent a photo of a coastal landscape. next to the flowerpot is a jackknife that may have served as a letter opener. the bright red feather in the middle could be a decorative object, but also a writing utensil. in her still lifes, motesiczky likes to show her domestic surroundings; she assigns a special meaning to personal objects. it is quite possible that the letter pictured is from motesiczky's lover, the writer elias canetti, who also fled to england. in july 1943, marie-louise von motesiczky wrote to elias canetti: \"dear, dear, dearest person, first i have to tell you how wonderful it was that you came this morning. [\u2026]\u201d this familiarity can also be felt in the present portrait. motesiczky was a master of the portrait. equipped with an insatiable curiosity for her social surroundings and an admirable power of observation, she created a large number of portraits that are among her most impressive works. motesiczky explored her model sensitively and understandingly, at the same time with a sharp, unbiased view. she was always concerned with portraying the true character of the person, devoid of any idealization. critics compared her portraits to those of rembrandt. elias canetti wrote: \u201cyou must know [\u2026] that you [\u2026] have the blessed gift of preserving people as they really are. that's why i love you and that's why i need you, you give me something i don't have and i wouldn't want to live without. [...] you will become the great german portraitist.\u201d elias canetti, born in 1905 in russe, bulgaria, into a sephardic merchant family, spent his childhood and youth in bulgaria, england, zurich, vienna and frankfurt am main. only at the age of twelve did he learn the german language, which remained his true homeland. in 1938 canetti emigrated from vienna to england with his wife veza. a tense love affair with marie-louise von motesiczky began, while he also had his wife and other mistresses. in the 1970s canetti moved back to zurich, where he died in 1994. motesiczky has portrayed canetti several times."},"estimateMax":8000,"lotNumber":"59","title":{"de":"marie-louise von motesiczky* (vienna 1906 - 1996 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chiswick auctions gb, fine arts widder vienna \n \n \n estimate \u20ac 3.000 - 4.000 \n \n austrian painter of the 20th century. representative of expressionism, belongs to the forgotten generation. her father came from the hungarian nobility, her mother from a jewish viennese banking family. she was the sister of the inventor of the radio tube robert hermann von lieben, her grandmother anna von lieben was one of the first patients of sigmund freund. her brother karl motesiczky, psychoanalyst and resistance fighter, died in auschwitz-birkenau in 1943. she attended the private art school of the czech artist carola machotka in den haar from 1922. studied at the städelschule in frankfurt am main with max beckmann, was her mentor and lifelong friend. held high regard for her and saw her as a successor to paula modersohn-becker. after the anschluss, she fled to amersham via the netherlands and london in 1938, and lived in london from 1945. deepened her acquaintance with oskar kokoschka. became a friend and lover of elias canetti. took many trips, including to mexico, where she met her childhood friend wolfgang paalen shortly before his death. received late recognition in 1985 through an exhibition at the london goethe institute on the initiative of hilde spiel, another exhibition in 1994 at the austrian gallery belvedere. created unadorned portraits of her mother, haunting self-portraits, and still lifes and landscapes rich in symbolism. \n \n my longing is to paint beautiful pictures, to be happy through it and to make other people happy, \" said marie-louise von motesiczky, explaining her tireless, always very personal, artistic work wich she continued into old age. for a long time, the artist was only perceived indirectly, as standing in the shadow of great men: as a student of max beckmann, an acquaintance of oskar kokoschka or a lover of elias canetti. only as a result of an extremely successful solo exhibition at the goethe institute in london in 1985 and a retrospective at the austrian gallery at belvedere vienna in 1994 and another at the vienna city museum in 2007 did she receive the place in the canon of great austrian artists of the 20th century that she undoubtedly deserves. her oeuvre, which consists mainly of still lifes, self-portraits and portraits and is committed to a constantly changing, increasingly lyrical, fractured expressionism, can definitely be considered autobiographical. she received a good artistic education at art schools in vienna, the hague, frankfurt am main, paris and berlin. from 1927 she studied at the städelschule in frankfurt in the master class of max beckmann, who remained her lifelong friend and mentor. she worked intensively in search of her own style; the hope of artistic recognition at home, however, was interrupted with the annexation of austria in 1938. motesiczky fled with her mother \u2013 her father had died young \u2013 first to the netherlands and then to england, where she lived and worked until her death. landscapes by the artist are rather rare. similar to her still lifes, the alpine valley with the aqueduct in the foreground is filled with a gentle glow and quiet poetry. the river bubbles cheerfully through the sunlit, tree-lined valley, while the view to the rear, beyond the village, is lost in the vastness of the hazy mountains."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"60","title":{"de":"marie-louise von motesiczky* (vienna 1906 - 1996 london)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17557/view","tags":["daFineart_PaintingsandMixedMedia","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":3000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":4000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-10T03:24:23.323Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac3,000 - 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century. representative of expressionism, belongs to the forgotten generation. her father came from the hungarian nobility, her mother from a jewish viennese banking family. she was the sister of the inventor of the radio tube robert hermann von lieben, her grandmother anna von lieben was one of the first patients of sigmund freund. her brother karl motesiczky, psychoanalyst and resistance fighter, died in auschwitz-birkenau in 1943. she attended the private art school of the czech artist carola machotka in den haar from 1922. studied at the städelschule in frankfurt am main with max beckmann, was her mentor and lifelong friend. held high regard for her and saw her as a successor to paula modersohn-becker. after the anschluss, she fled to amersham via the netherlands and london in 1938, and lived in london from 1945. deepened her acquaintance with oskar kokoschka. became a friend and lover of elias canetti. took many trips, including to mexico, where she met her childhood friend wolfgang paalen shortly before his death. received late recognition in 1985 through an exhibition at the london goethe institute on the initiative of hilde spiel, another exhibition in 1994 at the austrian gallery belvedere. created unadorned portraits of her mother, haunting self-portraits, and still lifes rich in symbolism. influence of teacher max beckmann also visible in the enigmatic selection and arrangement of objects. \n \n \"if you only paint one good picture while you're alive, it was worth your whole life.\" marie-louise von motesiczky, at the age of 16, is convinced of that. three years earlier, she finished her school career in order to fulfill this dream. since motesiczky comes from a wealthy, aristocratic family, nothing stands in the way of her wish and she attends a private painting school. she continued her education with courses at the frankfurt städelschule, the vienna school of applied arts and the paris académie de la grande chaumiere. max beckmann, whom she met as a family friend at the age of 14, was particularly formative for the young painter at this time. she admires him greatly and describes herself that a \"winged creature from mars could not have made a greater impression on her.\" at beckmann's invitation, the young painter went to the städelschule in frankfurt once again in 1927 as his student. in the years that followed she lived and worked in vienna. in 1938 she emigrated to amsterdam with her mother, and a little later to england. at that time she met the writer elias canetti, with whom she entered into a relationship that lasted more than 50 years. the published correspondence between the two bears witness to an intense artistic friendship, but also to the tragic love affair with the egomaniac and womanizer canetti. the letters show that the talented artist admires the poet but becomes dependent on him. canetti is married, has several mistresses, uses and humiliates them, only as a painter does he spur her on and encourage her. the \"still life with cigarettes\" shown here shows nothing of this supposedly \"weak side\" of the artist. it was created in 1928 when she was studying with beckmann and clearly shows the influence of her teacher. motesiczky draws on individual elements such as can be seen, for example, in beckmann's \"still life with a burning candle\" from 1921. she breaks with the classic perspective and plays with the alternation of surface and space. the improvised tabletop on the light, blackberry-colored fabric serves as a stable base for the lavishly filled jug. next to the vase of flowers are four cigarettes, which protrude slightly over the edge of the tabletop and face the viewer directly. the colors of the blackberry and cream-colored cloths are skilfully repeated in the blossoms. although the flowers are not detailed, dahlias and sweet-williams can be recognized by their distinctive colors and shapes. how many of her still lifes the picture seems to only show a partial view and the background is only hinted at. the cigarettes, which are placed next to the flowers as an important element in the picture, are exciting. in the 1920s and 1930s they stand for a new attitude towards life in women, which is characterized by freedom, independence and a new, more openly lived female eroticism. the financially independent painter hardly took part in the art world throughout her life, her work was created in secret and was only discovered late. in 1966 her work was presented for the first time in her home country, and in 1994 a solo exhibition took place in the austrian gallery belvedere. on the occasion of her 100th birthday in 2006, the wien museum showed this painting together with around 70 other oil paintings by the painter in cooperation with the london motesiczky trust."},"estimateMax":30000,"lotNumber":"61","title":{"de":"marie-louise von motesiczky* (vienna 1906 - 1996 london)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17558/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":12000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.539Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac15,000 - \u20ac30,000","currency":"EUR","id":17558,"estimateMin":15000},{"startPrice":3000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17559/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17559/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"sergius pauser* (vienna 1896 - 1970 klosterneuburg)"},"soldDate":"2022-05-19","available":false,"description":{"de":"sergius pauser* \n (vienna 1896 - 1970 klosterneuburg) \n bouquet of tulips \n oil/cardboard, 50,7 x 40,3 cm \n signed s. pauser \n provenance: private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 3.000 - 6.000 \n \n austrian painter of the 20th century. representative of the new objectivity. first studied architecture in vienna, from 1919 to 1924 at the academy of fine arts in munich with j. becker-bundahl, ludwig von herterich, karl caspar and the restorer max dörner. studied the works of max beckmann, otto dix and karl hofer there. from 1925 with karl sterrer at the academy of fine arts in vienna, from 1927 member of the vienna secession. worked in the former studio of albert paris gütersloh, where he held his first exhibition in vienna with josef dobrowsky, ernst huber and franz von zülow. thanks to wealthy patrons from 1930 trips to france and italy, exhibitions in germany, switzerland and usa. one of his students and patrons is the leather manufacturer fritz sinaiberger, later frederic serger. in 1934 and 1936 represented at the venice biennale. in 1943 he headed the class for portrait painting at the academy in vienna. in 1944, together with 5000 other \"politically unreliable\" in schanz camp of sa guards in bad radkersburg. painted the signing of the state treaty in two pastel sketches and an oil sketch and recorded the burning of the vienna state opera in a painting. in the post-war period he was a portraitist in demand, created portraits of many politicians and actors. 1996 retrospective at the austrian gallery belvedere. \n \n sergius pauser studied from 1919 to 1924 in munich and from 1925 to 1926 at the vienna academy with karl sterrer. he lived in vienna, became a member of the secession in 1927 and received the austrian state prize in 1932. study trips took him to italy, france and switzerland in 1938, where he was encouraged in his realistically expressive style of painting. in 1943 pauser took over the management of a master class for portrait painting at the academy and was appointed professor in 1947. in the post-war period he was a sought-after portraitist and was highly involved in the austrian art scene. he made the likenesses of many politicians and actors and received numerous awards and honors. his work was shown in a major retrospective at the austrian gallery in 1996 and is represented in numerous important collections."},"estimateMax":6000,"lotNumber":"62","title":{"de":"sergius pauser* (vienna 1896 - 1970 klosterneuburg)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17559/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":3000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":3300,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.548Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac3,000 - \u20ac6,000","currency":"EUR","id":17559,"estimateMin":3000},{"startPrice":2500,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17560/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17560/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17560/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"robin christian andersen* (vienna 1890 - 1969 vienna)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"robin christian andersen* \n (vienna 1890 - 1969 vienna) \n still life, 1920 \n oil/cardboard, 39,8 x 49,4 cm \n signed r. c. andersen and dated 1920 \n provenance: private property upper austria \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 2.500 - 5.000 \n \n austrian painter of the 20th century. his father christian georgius andersen came from denmark, ran a workshop for decorative painting in vienna from 1880. attended the robert scheffer painting school in vienna from 1905 to 1907, together with anton faistauer, gustav schütt, anton peschka and john quincy adams. 1907 to 1908 at the painting school of gustav bauer (formerly heinrich strehblow). in 1909 and 1910, with anton faistauer and gustav schütt, travels to monte verità near ascona in italy. with egon schiele, anton faistauer, albert paris gütersloh and anton kolig in the neukunstgruppe, also a member of the kunstschau and later the neue secession and the sonderbund. in 1913 his sister married anton faistauer. from 1920 member of the hagenbund, 1921 co-founder of the gobelin manufaktur and participation in exhibitions of the salzburg association wassermann. known students such as franz elsner, lisi engels, kurt absolon, eduard angeli, joannis avramidis, liselott beschorner, johann fruhmann, leopold ganzer, franz grabmayr, giselbert hoke, alfred kornberger. remained faithful to the figurative style of representation, created mainly portraits, landscapes and still lifes. intensive study of paul cezanne, painterly expressionism of color and form with an approach to new objectivity. works mainly in the possession of the leopold museum, the albertina and the austrian gallery belvedere. \n \n in 1909 a group of young artists around egon schiele founded the neukunstgruppe. among the 15 founding members are hans böhler, anton peschka, anton faistauer and robin christian andersen. a little later, oskar kokoschka and albert paris gütersloh also joined. as a member of the neukunstgruppe, later the wassermann artists' association, the hagenbund and the vienna secession, andersen was intensively advocating modernism and joined those artist groups that represented an innovative and individualistic view of art. andersen's depictions are characterized by the sovereign rendering of surfaces and sensitive lighting. his pastel drawings are also characterized by an exciting interplay of strong contour lines on the one hand and sensitive, gently shaded inner drawings on the other hand, made up of graphically linear and painterly two-dimensional design elements. the bodies are modeled by the bright, spotlight-like light. andersen's interest in the relationship between form and surface is evident in the pastel drawings as well as his oil paintings. in this respect, his pastels are close to kokoschka's nude drawings, whose work is familiar to andersen from their time together in the new art group."},"estimateMax":5000,"lotNumber":"63","title":{"de":"robin christian andersen* (vienna 1890 - 1969 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in a jewish settlement in what is now latvia, then part of the russian empire. attended the bloom academy of fine art in riga, then studied at the kunstgewerbeschule in berlin. with the outbreak of world war i, he was drafted into the russian army. in 1916 he deserted, fled to the usa via china and japan, lived first in seattle and from 1920 in los angeles. successful artist, worked in special effects for paramount pictures and created many murals. influence of german expressionism, tendency to geometrization of forms with cubist and surrealist tendencies."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"64","title":{"de":"boris deutsch* (krasnogorsk 1892 - 1978 los angeles)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17561/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daJudaica_JudaicaArt","daJudaica","daFineart","daFineart_all","daJudaica_all"],"directSalePrice":2000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.561Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,000 - \u20ac4,000","currency":"EUR","id":17561,"estimateMin":2000},{"startPrice":1000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17562/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17562/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17562/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"theodor fried* (budapest 1902 - 1980 new york)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"theodor fried* \n (budapest 1902 - 1980 new york) \n dessert, 1948 \n oil/fiber board, 59,5 x 50,5 cm \n signed th. fried and dated 1948 \n verso signed th. fried, 400 w., 23 st., new york ii, n.y., titled and dated \"dessert\" 1948 \n provenance: private collection vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 1.000 - 2.000 \n \n hungarian painter of the 20th century. he came from a jewish family. studied at the academy of fine arts in budapest from 1920 to 1924. member of the november group. from 1924 in vienna, member of the hagenbund. 1925 to 1939 in paris, friendship with photographer andré kertész. spent much time at le dôme café and exhibited at the salon d'automne. regular contacts and exhibitions in vienna. member of the hagenbund. exhibited together with frieda salvendy. emigrated to new york in 1942. created mainly representations of supposed everyday situations and human relationships to each other. initially influenced by expressionism, developed in the direction of new objectivity. \n \n this painting with the little sweet tooth is part of a series of children's pictures by theodor fried, which the native hungarian artist has been painting since the 1920s, preferably of infants in prams and nursing mothers, of children playing exuberantly and making music with concentration, or of children singing together paints with adults. in this painting, too, fried relies on a concentration of motifs, in that in addition to the edge of the table he only needs the girl snacking and at the table only the bowl with pears and apples and a glowing kerosene lamp with a leaf-shaped reflector as props for his picture story. our picture was taken in 1948, in the aftermath of the hunger winter of 1946/7, when fried's european homeland was still very much aware of the shortage, in contrast to new york, the place where the picture was taken, which was consistently well supplied. fried does not go into the interior and the possibilities of light-dark effects offered by the artificial light source. he avoids striking contours here, which makes everything seem bathed in a sfumato-like light. born in budapest (or possibly szeged) in 1902, the painter was the son of a jewish watchmaker and jeweller. between 1920 and 1924 he studied at the budapest academy of fine arts under gyula rudnay, before moving to vienna in 1924 - with seven oil paintings and sixty drawings in his luggage. in the same year he received a solo exhibition at the hugo heller gallery, through which fried soon became acquainted with the younger generation of austrian artists associated with the hagenbund. in addition, art critics and art historians such as fritz grossmann and fritz novotny became aware of him. through his connection to the heller family, he must have met his first wife, anna politzer, the daughter of a viennese goldsmith, in vienna. although he received another exhibition in this viennese gallery in 1925, he moved to paris in june 1925. in his early work from this period, fried was primarily concerned with the existential situation of people and their relationships to one another. after initially \u201cexpressive\u201d painting and a preferred tenebrous palette, he gradually simplified the form, emphasized the contours and brightened the colors. in paris he became a member of the école de paris and founded a studio in montmartre. the antwerp writer and avant-garde painter ferdinand berckelaers, alias michael seuphor, would not only introduce him to the parisian art scene, but also introduce him to the hungarian photographer andré kertész, with whom fried had a lifelong friendship. this time was overshadowed by great material worries, which is why he took on a wide variety of odd jobs - clothing design for a parisian fashion house, employee (puppeteer) in a puppet theater and playing the violin in a cinema orchestra. nevertheless, he maintained contacts with the viennese art scene: in 1927 fried participated in the exhibition \"the making of a work of art\" at the austrian museum of art and industry, which also featured works by ehrlich, hanak, jungnickel, kokoschka, laske and merkel."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"65","title":{"de":"theodor fried* (budapest 1902 - 1980 new york)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17562/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":1000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.563Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,000 - \u20ac2,000","currency":"EUR","id":17562,"estimateMin":1000},{"startPrice":2000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17563/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17563/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17563/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"margarete berger-hamerschlag* (vienna 1902 - 1958 london)"},"soldDate":"2022-05-19","available":false,"description":{"de":"margarete berger-hamerschlag* \n (vienna 1902 - 1958 london) \n at the youth club \n oil/canvas, 56 x 76 cm \n signed margarete livia berger hamerschlag \n provenance: estate of the artist, fine arts widder vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 2.500 - 4.000 \n \n austrian painter, author and illustrator of the 20th century. came from a jewish family. attended the youth art class with franz cizek from 1910. from 1917 studied at the kunstgewerbeschule under bertold löffler, oskar strnad and eduard wimmer-wisgrill. from 1920 illustrations for books of the wiener werkstätte, designs for costumes and editorial member of the magazine wiener mode. 1922 marriage to the architect and student of adolfs loos, joseph berger. lived in the artists' colony on rosenhügel from 1924 to 1934. extraordinary member of the hagenbund. 1927 participated in the first viennese women's art exhibition. 1936 emigration to england. lived in london as a portraitist, book illustrator and art educator. created landscapes, still lifes and portraits and, among others, a series of paintings from the youth club, where she worked in london. \n \n on the recommendation of koloman moser, margarete hamerschlag, who came from a middle-class jewish family, attended art classes with franz čižek at the age of nine. from 1917 to 1922 she studied at the vienna school of applied arts with oskar strnad, eduard wimmer-wisgrill and bertold löffler. in 1922 she married josef berger, architect and student of adolf loos. afterwards she was successful as a book illustrator, painter, watercolorist and woodcut artist as well as a costume designer. the decorative style of the wiener werkstätte was soon mixed with grimaces, demons, and figures marked by greed and fear. in 1927 she took part in the first exhibition of women's art in vienna. frustrated by the lack of artistic development opportunities and bitterness about the establishment of the austro-fascist regime, the couple moved to the british mandate of palestine in 1934 because berger had received a contract to build a hotel in haifa. for about a year, berger worked on the hotel plans on the one hand and on the other hand was looking for follow-up orders. meanwhile, hamerschlag traveled to palestine, syria and lebanon on his own and recorded his experiences in numerous sketches, paintings and written records. in haifa, she designed costumes for yardena cohen, who would later be considered one of the founders of modern dance in the founding days of israel. her work was shown in a gallery in jerusalem at the time, as well as part of an exhibition of contemporary austrian art in košice, czechoslovakia. in haifa, the couple, who were jewish by origin but distanced themselves from religious judaism, maintained lively contacts with german-speaking immigrants who saw themselves less as zionist pioneers than as temporary refugees. when tensions between jews and arabs in palestine increased, the berger-hamerschlag couple decided to leave the mandate for england. in december 1935, hamerschlag traveled by ship from haifa to london. berger followed in the following year. after surviving internment in 1940, berger found a job at the london county council. hamerschlag kept in touch with georg ehrlich and other emigrants, but also quickly made contact with the english art scene and soon took part in group exhibitions. after the end of the war it called itself berger-hamerschlag. she was able to build on her earlier artistic successes and undertook artistically productive journeys, particularly through southern europe. in addition, she made a name for herself teaching in various london youth clubs. in the youth centre her work with young people is reflected in a number of pictures as well as in the work in particular depictions of teddy boys, which she also used as illustrations for her most successful publication, \"journey into a fog\" (1955). with the proceeds from the book, she was able to buy a house in south hill park for herself and her family. two scenes from a youth club are particularly significant with regard to the artist's biography. both depictions are clearly of a narrative character; the figures are completely related to each other. the older teenagers talk, dance and probably argue with each other without noticing us. the four teenage boys, on the other hand, apparently prefer to be left alone by the adults: the two in front appear as if they were disturbed by us in the game and look suspiciously at the viewer."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"66","title":{"de":"margarete berger-hamerschlag* (vienna 1902 - 1958 london)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17563/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":2000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":4000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.564Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,500 - 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strnad and eduard wimmer-wisgrill. from 1920 illustrations for books of the wiener werkstätte, designs for costumes and editorial member of the magazine wiener mode. 1922 marriage to the architect and student of adolfs loos, joseph berger. lived in the artists' colony on rosenhügel from 1924 to 1934. extraordinary member of the hagenbund. 1927 participated in the first viennese women's art exhibition. 1936 emigration to england. lived in london as a portraitist, book illustrator and art educator. created landscapes, still lifes and portraits and, among others, a series of paintings from the youth club, where she worked in london. \n \n on the recommendation of koloman moser, margarete hamerschlag, who came from a middle-class jewish family, attended art classes with franz čižek at the age of nine. from 1917 to 1922 she studied at the vienna school of applied arts with oskar strnad, eduard wimmer-wisgrill and bertold löffler. in 1922 she married josef berger, architect and student of adolf loos. afterwards she was successful as a book illustrator, painter, watercolorist and woodcut artist as well as a costume designer. the decorative style of the wiener werkstätte was soon mixed with grimaces, demons, and figures marked by greed and fear. in 1927 she took part in the first exhibition of women's art in vienna. frustrated by the lack of artistic development opportunities and bitterness about the establishment of the austro-fascist regime, the couple moved to the british mandate of palestine in 1934 because berger had received a contract to build a hotel in haifa. for about a year, berger worked on the hotel plans on the one hand and on the other hand was looking for follow-up orders. meanwhile, hamerschlag traveled to palestine, syria and lebanon on his own and recorded his experiences in numerous sketches, paintings and written records. in haifa, she designed costumes for yardena cohen, who would later be considered one of the founders of modern dance in the founding days of israel. her work was shown in a gallery in jerusalem at the time, as well as part of an exhibition of contemporary austrian art in košice, czechoslovakia. in haifa, the couple, who were jewish by origin but distanced themselves from religious judaism, maintained lively contacts with german-speaking immigrants who saw themselves less as zionist pioneers than as temporary refugees. when tensions between jews and arabs in palestine increased, the berger-hamerschlag couple decided to leave the mandate for england. in december 1935, hamerschlag traveled by ship from haifa to london. berger followed in the following year. after surviving internment in 1940, berger found a job at the london county council. hamerschlag kept in touch with georg ehrlich and other emigrants, but also quickly made contact with the english art scene and soon took part in group exhibitions. after the end of the war it called itself berger-hamerschlag. she was able to build on her earlier artistic successes and undertook artistically productive journeys, particularly through southern europe. in addition, she made a name for herself teaching in various london youth clubs. \n portrait joan gili i serra the portraits of the artist berger-hamerschlag, in which she continued her personal, lyrical style of the pre-war period, show the portrayed thoughtfully and pensively. the artist approaches them with love and keen interest, but respectfully maintains a distance. what is really going on in them remains ultimately unfathomable. dressed in light shades of brown as if for a cool autumn day, the couple portrays the catalan bookseller, publisher and translator joan gili i serra, who moved to london in 1934 and came not as a political refugee but out of intellectual interest, and his wife elizabeth mcpherson. in interviews older englishmen regularly say that they remember brown as the dominant colour in england in the 1940s, and emphasize that this is not only due to the sepia brown photos of that time. clothes, furniture, wallpaper, houses, everything was brown. this double portrait could serve as evidence for this. hamerschlag seems to have been particularly interested in the almost stereotypical contrast that results from the close juxtaposition of the mediterranean-dark-haired joan gili and his strawberry-blonde, british wife with the almost transparent-white complexion."},"estimateMax":3000,"lotNumber":"67","title":{"de":"margarete berger-hamerschlag* (vienna 1902 - 1958 london)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17564/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":1000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":2400,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.567Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,000 - 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\n signed e. lichtblau and dated 1920 \n provenance: siebers auctions stuttgart 2013, private collection vienna \n \n \n estimate \u20ac 1.000 - 2.000 \n \n austrian architect and artist of the 20th century. came from a jewish family. his father was the managing director of the largest meerschaum pipe factory in the danube monarchy, located in hermanngasse in vienna. studied architecture at the academy of fine arts under otto wagner from 1902 to 1905. from 1912 member of the deutscher werkbund, 1914 founding member of the österreichischer werkbund. freelance architect and freelancer for the wiener werkstätte. 1938 emigration to the usa, from 1947 lectureship in interior design at the school of design in rhode island. 1961 return to vienna. created costume and stage designs, among others. \n \n ernst lichtblau grew up as the youngest of three brothers in a well-to-do jewish family in vienna. his father, johann lichtblau, was managing director of what was then the largest meerschaum pipe factory in the danube monarchy, which was owned by his relatives and had its headquarters in hermanngasse on vienna's spittelberg. with support from an early age, ernst lichtblau graduated from the state trade school in 1902 and from 1902 to 1905 attended otto wagner's master class at the vienna academy of fine arts. after completing his studies, he returned to the state trade school, where he taught technical drawing for furniture making until 1914. from 1912 ernst lichtblau was a member of the \"deutscher werkbund\" and in 1914 a founding member of the \"österreichischer werkbund\". in addition, lichtblau worked as a freelancer at the wiener werkstätte and as a freelance architect. his most important buildings include the \"chocolate house\" in vienna hietzing and a semi-detached house in the vienna werkbundsiedlung. in 1922/1923, as an architect, he also oversaw the renovation and re-facade of the house \"zum schwarzen mohr\", a business building belonging to his relatives. in 1939 lichtblau had to emigrate via england to the usa, where he accepted a teaching position for interior design at the school of design in rhode island in 1947 and taught until his retirement. two years before his death, ernst lichtblau returned to vienna in 1961 to resume his work as a freelance architect. to call the present picture a rarity is certainly not an exaggeration. it is true that ernst lichtblau is an important and well-known figure of the interwar period, but in his capacity as an architect and not as a painter. pictures from his hand are hard to find on the art market. lichtblau studied at the vienna academy of fine arts; he is one of the few students of the great otto wagner who turned away from the monumental orientation of their teacher and turned to contemporary modernism. in vienna, lichtblau designed a whole series of residential, commercial and public buildings, most of which are listed as monuments to the extent that they are still intact. he also stands out as an interior and furniture designer. lichtblau already demonstrated his artistic independence in early commissions. perhaps his most famous building is the \u201cchocolate house\u201d from 1914, an apartment building on wattmanngasse in vienna-hietzing. in contrast to the flat facade design that was common at the time, he provided the cubic building with a ceramic decor that was emphatically sculpted throughout. his shape of the ribbon windows, with which lichtblau anticipates criteria of the architecture of the 1920s, also proves to be groundbreaking. in 1923/1924 ernst lichtblau remodeled the house \"zum schwarzen mohr\", the headquarters of the meerschaum pipe factory and tobacco import company adolf lichtblau & co., owned by his relatives, in hermanngasse on spittelberg and redesigned the facade. the surreal figures, with their voluminous, cloud-like quality, bear a striking resemblance to the ceramic figures on the facade of the \u201cchocolate house\u201d and the house \u201czum schwarzen mohr\u201d. a woman, wrapped in a flowing white robe, with an enraptured facial expression, lunges and steps onto a kind of theater stage flanked by heavy curtains. in her hand she holds a bowl full of flowers, which she hardly seems to touch. she throws her head back in a theatrical gesture and underscores this movement with her right arm. to the side in front of her, lichtblau builds a filigree framework in the form of a censer, which smokes heavily and is blown aside by a strong wind. curiously, this does not come from the same direction as the wind that moves the robe. a putto hovers in a cloud above the woman and in front of the theater curtain. equipped with a bow and arrow, he has already set his sights on his target and acts as if embedded in a halo, protective of this scenery. behind the stage, a landscape opens up almost imperceptibly. as a mountain formation rises out of the water to the left, a pair of gondoliers appear to push off from the edge of the stage with an oar and embark on an unknown journey. the ultimately unfathomable scene is reminiscent of esoteric, life-reforming or anthroposophical influences, as well as a playful examination of a play, such as shakespeare's \"the merchant of venice\". it also seems a bit like an archaic sacrificial ritual. the viewer is left in the dark about what or who is being sacrificed to whom, why and for what purpose. it is quite possible that the picture also depicts a dream world. other austrian artists of the time, such as alfred kubin and franz sedlacek, also took up the theme of dreams in a fascinating way. ernst lichtblau, with his visual language influenced by otto wagner's art nouveau, contributes in an idiosyncratic manner to the contemporary art or even dream discourse."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"69","title":{"de":"ernst lichtblau* (vienna 1883 - 1963 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purple-brown \n inside the base inscribed: ww 375, dk (embossed) \n provenance: fine arts widder \n \n \n estimate \u20ac 1.200 - 2.400 \n \n austrian ceramist and craftswoman of the 20th century. from 1912 studied at the kunstgewerbeschule in vienna with josef hoffmann, oskar strnad, franz cizek, kolo moser and michael powolny. member of the wiener werkstätte, produced designs for ceramic figures, wallpaper, fabric patterns, fireplace coverings, tiles, stoves, lamps and vases. 1923 founded her own ceramic workshop with her brother and emanuel iskra. also designed ceramics for the friedrich goldscheider manufactory, the augarten porcelain manufactory and the bimini glass manufactory in the 1920s. worked from 1937 for the waechtersbach ceramics manufactory in brachttal-schlierbach, hesse, where she also lived from 1940. member of the association of women artists of austria and the vienna women's art. \n \n the wiener werkstätte set out to create artistically high-quality handicrafts in all areas of everyday use - from furniture and architecture to porcelain, glass and fashion - in close contact between artists and consumers. it is the interdisciplinary claim to holistic permeation of all areas of life as well as their trend-setting designs with which the wiener werkstätte has written design history in the long term. its founder, the architect josef hoffmann, joined the graphic artist and painter koloman moser and the patron fritz waerndorfer in 1903 with the aim of founding the now world-famous wiener werkstätte association for handicrafts. they wanted to establish a marketable aesthetic counterpoint to encrusted historicism. it is often overlooked that women also played a key role in this success story. in 1937 around 180 of the company's female artists were named. most of these women received their education at the vienna school of applied arts and were finally brought to the ww by hoffmann to bring their creative energy to bear in the fields of textile design, 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werkstätte. produced designs for fabrics, lace, leather and ivory work, mass-produced ceramics, glassware, commercial graphics, chip boxes and christmas tree ornaments. along with vally wiesenthier, one of the most prolific ceramicists of the wiener werkstätte. in 1918, commissioned by josef hoffmann together with hilda jesser and felice rix to design the walls and ceilings of the new branch of the wiener werkstätte in kärntner straße. member of the austrian werkbund, exhibits in the exhibitions of viennese women's art. \n \n the wiener werkstätte set out to create artistically high-quality handicrafts in all areas of everyday use - from furniture and architecture to porcelain, glass and fashion - in close contact between artists and consumers. it is the interdisciplinary claim to holistic permeation of all areas of life as well as their trend-setting designs with which the wiener werkstätte has written design history in the long term. its founder, the architect josef hoffmann, joined the graphic artist and painter koloman moser and the patron fritz waerndorfer in 1903 with the aim of founding the now world-famous wiener werkstätte association for handicrafts. they wanted to establish a marketable aesthetic counterpoint to encrusted historicism. it is often overlooked that women also played a key role in this success story. in 1937 around 180 of the company's female artists were named. most of these women received their education at the vienna school of applied arts and were finally brought to the ww by hoffmann to bring their creative energy to bear in the fields of textile design, fashion, home accessories, toys, art and ceramics. they also developed unusual wall designs for interiors - be it apartments, bars or exhibition rooms. with the dissolution of the wiener werkstätte in 1932, many of the women artists who were highly regarded at the time were largely forgotten."},"estimateMax":2400,"lotNumber":"71","title":{"de":"reni schaschl* (pula 1895 - 1979 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\n austrian painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. studied at the academy in vienna and in munich. from 1913 worked as an illustrator for books and magazines. together with the architect p. l. troost, designed several luxury liners for the lloyd company. also worked very successfully as a stage and costume designer in munich and vienna. created mainly elegant scenes from everyday life or festivities, motifs from literature and mythology with elements of art nouveau, art deco and new objectivity. \n \n hagel studied at the vienna and munich academy. the versatile talented artist worked from 1913 as an illustrator for books and magazines. he designed some together with the architect p. l. troost luxury liners from the lloyd company and was also able to worked as a successful set designer. already in the mid-1920s brought one british magazine published a paper on his work, which his international artistic position underpinned. in 1930 he returned to his native city of vienna, where he was active until 1938, after that he worked in great seclusion. alfred hagel's graceful and elegant scenes from the 1920s and 1930s exude a very unique charm, depicting the sunny side of life in an imaginative way. his talent for narrative and pointed depictions, in which elements from everyday life are cleverly combined with motifs from literature and mythology, can also be clearly seen in the subject shown here. the young bride, who is being prepared for the wedding by her mother, is full of expectations."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"72","title":{"de":"alfred hagel (vienna 1885 - 1945 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17569/view","tags":["daFineart_MixedMedia","daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":1000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.215Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,000 - 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from 1912 she lived in paris with the artist charles hofer. they traveled by houseboat across canals and rivers throughout europe. after they separated, she traveled alone on her boat isme as the first state-patented female captain until she lost her boat in the turmoil of the spanish civil war. the themes of her books were always the insatiable longing for freedom through the eyes of a woman. only a few works of visual art survived, influence of the new objectivity. \n \n cécile hofer-houriet, born on january 13, 1891 in couvet in the swiss canton of neuchâtel, died on december 11, 1964 in sanary-sur-mer, france, author of seven novels that appeared under the french author's name cilette ofaire. from 1912 she lived in paris with her husband charles hofer. in addition to her passion for painting and drawing, she worked as a secretary and also as a nude model. the artist couple sailed canals and rivers all over europe in their houseboat, which became ofaire's first literary work \"le san luca\". after the separation, she undertook further sea voyages, but lost her ship in the turmoil of the spanish civil war. however, in the novel \"l'ismé\", which was written in 1938/39 in a village near toulon and was first published in 1940 by the lausanne guilde du livre, it got going again: as a strangely astonishing image and symbol of the insatiable longing of a courageous woman for boundless, uncivil freedom. the swiss flag flew over the stern of the ismé, and even as an author, cilette ofaire never completely lost sight of her homeland. as early as 1938, the cycle of stories \"sylvie velsey\" contains wistful memories of her childhood in the jura, and her most compact book, the novel \"chemins\" from 1945, reflects a true experience from 1935 and depicts a brief return of the 44-year-old sylvie to the val -de-travers. in 1961 she had difficulty finding a publisher for her last book, «la place», and after her death on december 11, 1964, cilette ofaire was quickly forgotten completely, until 1987 when the cantonal and university library of neuchâtel opened a comprehensive exhibition of her works in her memory."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"73","title":{"de":"cilette ofaire* (couvet 1891 - 1964 sanary-sur-mer)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17570/view","tags":["daFineart_Watercolors","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":800,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.219Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac800 - \u20ac1,500","currency":"EUR","id":17570,"estimateMin":800},{"startPrice":1000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17571/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17571/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"orla andreas muff* (copenhagen 1903 - 1984 copenhagen)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"orla andreas muff* \n (copenhagen 1903 - 1984 copenhagen) \n dancing couple, around 1930 \n oil/canvas, 50,5 x 63 cm \n signed muff \n provenance: auction house bassenge berlin, european private collection \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 1.000 - 2.000 \n \n danish artist of the 20th century. apprenticeship as a designer and stage designer. in the 1920s, numerous costume and stage designs. from the 1930s also oil paintings of mythological scenes and figures and abstract compositions. influences from art deco and cubism. \n \n the oeuvre of the danish artist orla muff is characterized by elegance and an unusually light-flooded color scale. his almost abstract compositions are committed to art deco and cubism. in addition to painting, he also devoted himself to stage design; in the 1930s, for example, he carried out a number of commissioned works at theaters in berlin."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"74","title":{"de":"orla andreas muff* (copenhagen 1903 - 1984 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8.000 - 14.000 \n \n german painter of the 20th century. grew up in russia, where her father was in charge of building a modern electricity company. attended the private painting school of ivan dudin and konstantin juon in moscow. after the beginning of world war i, the family had to leave the country as enemy aliens, trained in berlin with emil preetorius. studied portrait painting at the lewin-funcke school with lovis corinth, willy jaeckel and eugen spiro. member of the verein der künstlerinnen zu berlin. lived mainly in spain from 1930. 1936 with the beginning of the spanish civil war return to berlin. created mainly portraits and portrayals of figures, theater and stage scenes, singers, dancers and musicians. stylistically to be assigned to expressionism, also elements of the new objectivity. \n \n busse was born luise busse in moscow in 1897, when her father was in charge of setting up a modern electricity company in russia. in moscow she attended the private painting school of ivan dudin and konstantin juon. after the start of world war i, her family had to leave the country and returned to germany. in munich, busse continued her training in the studio of graphic artist emil preetorius. further studies followed in berlin, mainly in portrait painting at the lewin funcke school with lovis corinth, willy jaeckel and eugen spiro. after completing her education, she traveled to russia, riga, spain and italy in the early 1920s. from 1927, with financial support from her father, busse ran a studio in berlin. from 1927 to 1930 busse belonged to the association of women artists in berlin and from 1930 lived mainly in spain. with the beginning of the spanish civil war in 1936, she left her adopted country and returned to berlin. during the second world war, she worked as an interpreter in the post office and after the war had to earn her living with translations and language classes. although she was able to show her work in exhibitions in the 1950s, she continued to 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oil/canvas, 98,5 x 105 cm \n signed melzer \n exhibited in berlin, 1910 and at museum art forum eastgerman gallery regensburg, 2007-2008 \n provenance: private collection rhineland, auction house ketterer 2005 and 2007, gallery ritthaler hamburg 2008, european private collection \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 20.000 - 30.000 \n \n german painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. representative of expressionism with impulses of cubism, futurism and pointilism. worked as a porcelain painter, from 1906 to 1908 at the art academy in weimar with ludwig von hofmann. from 1908 in berlin, 1910/1911 co-founder of the new secession and, together with georg tappert, established the school for free and applied art. member of the deutscher künstlerbund and the prague secession. 1918 founds the november group together with max pechstein, césar klein, bernhard klein, georg tappert and heinrich richter-berlin, among others. 1921 to 1943 teacher at the reimann school. his works were classified as degenerate art by the nazis in 1937. numerous works were confiscated and destroyed. early influences of italian renaissance masters, impressionism and pointillism. here, too, in bright hues resolved representation of manneristically elongated figures in unnatural, almost dance-like postures and poses."},"estimateMax":30000,"lotNumber":"76","title":{"de":"moritz melzer* (albendorf 1877 - 1966 berlin)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17573/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":15000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.230Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac20,000 - \u20ac30,000","currency":"EUR","id":17573,"estimateMin":20000},{"startPrice":200,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17574/001/001.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"trude waehner* (vienna 1900 - 1979 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her studio in buchfeldgasse in vienna was taken over by heimito von doderer, and albert paris gütersloh lived there as a lodger. always critical of anti-semitism and fascism, her second husband was of jewish origin. in the u.s. she taught art at sarah lawrence college in new york and at the moravian seminary and college for women in pennsylvania. after the war, she lived in vienna, southern sicily (dieulefit) and venice. 1937 personale at the würthle gallery, member of the austrian werkbund. began to make more woodcuts in venice, many portraits of musicians, cellists, composers and conductors. \n \n along with helene funke and margarete berger-hamerschlag, trude waehner, who came from an upper-class viennese family, is one of the influential, long-overlooked viennese artists who had to emigrate and thus ran the risk of being disconnected from the art scene. from 1918 on, she studied at the vienna school of arts and crafts, only to get to the bauhaus in dessau in 1928 through the mediation of josef frank. there she entered paul klee's painting class and also took courses with wassily kandinsky. when the famous berlin art dealer paul cassirer offered her an exhibition in 1933, this was thwarted by the political upheaval and her berlin studio was destroyed by the gestapo. as a result, the artist not only clearly pointed out the dangers of fascism in her works, but also actively helped with the production of identity papers and supported others fleeing vienna. as an attentive observer of social and political developments, waehner designed anti-fascist graphics as early as the late 1920s. from the 1930s onwards, her artistic work repeatedly referred to the political situation, from which she unequivocally distanced herself. the artist, who had returned to austria in 1933, was prevented from exhibiting due to her political commitment and her anti-fascist views. in 1938 she emigrated to new york. as a result of networking with other emigrants and the contacts she had made with americans in recent years, she soon found a living through private painting lessons. with letters of recommendation from josef frank, hans tietze and oskar kokoschka, waehner also received two teaching positions at schools in the usa and began to work in the field of art psychology. her artistic work in these years was mainly characterized by portraits and cityscapes."},"estimateMax":300,"lotNumber":"77","title":{"de":"trude waehner* (vienna 1900 - 1979 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17574/view","tags":["daFineart_PrintsandMultiples","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":200,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":500,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.232Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac200 - \u20ac300","currency":"EUR","id":17574,"estimateMin":200},{"startPrice":200,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17575/001/001.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"trude waehner* 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the anschluss in 1938 via switzerland, france, england to the usa. her studio in buchfeldgasse in vienna was taken over by heimito von doderer, and albert paris gütersloh lived there as a lodger. always critical of anti-semitism and fascism, her second husband was of jewish origin. in the u.s. she taught art at sarah lawrence college in new york and at the moravian seminary and college for women in pennsylvania. after the war, she lived in vienna, southern sicily (dieulefit) and venice. 1937 personale at the würthle gallery, member of the austrian werkbund. began to make more woodcuts in venice, many portraits and portraits of musicians, cellists, composers and conductors. alban berg was an austrian composer of the second viennese school. influenced by arnold schoenberg and twelve-tone music, well-known works were the operas lulu and wozzek. \n \n along with helene funke and margarete berger-hamerschlag, trude waehner, who came from an upper-class viennese family, is one of the influential, long-overlooked viennese artists who had to emigrate and thus ran the risk of being disconnected from the art scene. from 1918 on, she studied at the vienna school of arts and crafts, only to get to the bauhaus in dessau in 1928 through the mediation of josef frank. there she entered paul klee's painting class and also took courses with wassily kandinsky. when the famous berlin art dealer paul cassirer offered her an exhibition in 1933, this was thwarted by the political upheaval and her berlin studio was destroyed by the gestapo. as a result, the artist not only clearly pointed out the dangers of fascism in her works, but also actively helped with the production of identity papers and supported others fleeing vienna. as an attentive observer of social and political developments, waehner designed anti-fascist graphics as early as the late 1920s. from the 1930s onwards, her artistic work repeatedly referred to the political situation, from which she unequivocally distanced 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painter of the 20th century. studied for two years at the academy of music, then at the vienna school of applied arts with oskar strnad and josef frank. from 1928 on the recommendation of walter gropius and mediation of josef frank at the bauhaus in dessau in the class of paul klee. attended courses by wassily kandinsky. went to berlin in 1932, contact with bruno cassirer and contact with bert brecht, otto dix, klaus and erika mann. in 1933 she went back to vienna and and fled after the anschluss in 1938 via switzerland, france, england to the usa. her studio in buchfeldgasse in vienna was taken over by heimito von doderer, and albert paris gütersloh lived there as a lodger. always critical of anti-semitism and fascism, her second husband was of jewish origin. in the u.s. she taught art at sarah lawrence college in new york and at the moravian seminary and college for women in pennsylvania. after the war, she lived in vienna, southern sicily (dieulefit) and venice. 1937 personale at the würthle gallery, member of the austrian werkbund. began to make more woodcuts in venice, many portraits and portraits of musicians, cellists, composers and conductors. pablo casals was a spanish, cellist, composer and conductor. \n \n along with helene funke and margarete berger-hamerschlag, trude waehner, who came from an upper-class viennese family, is one of the influential, long-overlooked viennese artists who had to emigrate and thus ran the risk of being disconnected from the art scene. from 1918 on, she studied at the vienna school of arts and crafts, only to get to the bauhaus in dessau in 1928 through the mediation of josef frank. there she entered paul klee's painting class and also took courses with wassily kandinsky. when the famous berlin art dealer paul cassirer offered her an exhibition in 1933, this was thwarted by the political upheaval and her berlin studio was destroyed by the gestapo. as a result, the artist not only clearly pointed out the dangers of fascism in 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reinhard hilker, fritz fuhrken and franz bronstert in the artist group der fels. from 1922 married to the classical philologist gertrude herzog-hauser. during the second world war in exile in switzerland, wife and son fled to the netherlands. from 1947 again involved in cultural reconstruction in vienna. secretary general and vice president of the p.e.n. club, honorary president of the new hagenbund. stylistic development from classical, academic training through early expressionism to new objectivity. themes of love, death, eros, narrative representations, religious themes, and images of africa. frequent self-portraits and examination of his own biography. family pictures in the familiar and intimate togetherness of father, mother and child. \n \n carry hauser was born as karl maria hauser on february 16, 1895 in vienna. his father is an official in the ministry of the imperial house and foreign affairs, his mother maria hauser, née linke, the daughter of a moravian landowner. carry hauser and his brother heinz, who is three years his senior, are initially taught at home by their mother, who is a teacher. hauser grew up in an art-interested environment of the viennese educated middle class, with frequent visits to the theater and exhibitions. from 1905 to 1910 he attended the schottengymnasium in vienna and then switched to the graphic teaching and research institute for two years. at the same time, he completed an evening course in ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek at the school of applied arts. 1912 carry hauser attended the school of applied arts for two years, first in general form theory with oskar strnad and in the second year in nature studies with adolf böhm. during this time he received basic artistic training in the general department under the direction of alfred roller, which was characterized by extensive practical workshop training using a wide variety of techniques. he also attends the evening nude class with oskar kokoschka, the class for nude studies with anton von kenner, ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek and writing and heraldry with rudolf von larisch. in november 1914 he left the school of arts and crafts early, after passing all the exams, and in the same month he volunteered in the army with the deutschmeister regiment as k. and k. deutschmeister. after training as an officer, he was transferred to the first infantry regiment in austria-silesia, where he did his military service in present-day poland, ukraine and the czech republic. towards the end of the war he stayed in chernivtsi and worked on pictures for a regiment exhibition. the experiences of the war, the contact to intellectual and pacifist circles and above all the death of his brother heinz shaped him and allowed him to emerge from the war as a pacifist. back in vienna after the end of the war, hauser established contacts with the art historian, art critic and collector arthur roessler and the playwright franz theodor csokor, for whom he designed stage sets and costumes. hauser is a founding and executive member (until 1922) of the artists' association die freie bewegungs (the free movement), which organizes exhibitions of international contemporary art. at the same time, he works as an artist for the wiener graphische werkstätte publishing house, which mainly publishes modern austrian literature. from the very beginning he devoted himself intensively to theater and literature in addition to the fine arts. in october 1919, carry hauser had his first personal exhibition in the house of the young artists. the modern art of the interwar period has fallen into oblivion and young artists orientate themselves towards international trends and the conservative taste in art of the national socialists is increasingly harder to shake off. hauser begins to campaign for the reconstruction of the modern art and cultural landscape of his homeland. he follows the events of the art club and is involved in the founding of the new hagenbund. he intensified his collaboration with theater and literary circles and from 1947 to 1973 he was a member of the austrian p.e.n. clubs, of which he became general secretary in 1952 and where he also served as vice president until 1972. in 1947, a personal exhibition with 50 works from the period after 1938 took place in lincoln, usa. in 1949 he received the city of vienna prize for graphics and applied arts. in 1951 he resigned as president of the new hagenbund due to internal disagreements. in 1952 he was a member of the professional association of austrian resistance fighters and victims of fascism. co-founder and temporarily vice-president of the professional association of austrian visual artists, member of the board of trustees of the documentation archive of the austrian resistance and president of the action against anti-semitism as well as president of the federation of modern visual artists in austria. in the 1950s he drew the illustrations for the book das weltbild der moderne by karl renner and worked on several ceramic mosaics for the municipality of vienna (including voltagasse 1210 vienna, märzstraße 1150 vienna, theresienbad 1120 vienna, simonygasse 1180 vienna). from the 1960s on, carry hauser regularly travels to croatia, israel and above all to africa. numerous sketches are created on these trips, in which he captures nature and the local people. at the same time he takes part in international exhibitions, in 1960 in the kunstverein braunschweig and in the galerie de bourgogne in paris, in 1964 a personal exhibition in jerusalem follows. one year later, in 1965, he received the golden medal of honor and in 1985 the ring of honor of the city of vienna. until the end of his life, it was above all the experiences of his travels to afrika that had the greatest impact on his artistic work. his love for africa began in 1967 with a cruise on a cargo steamer via gibraltar and the suez canal to south africa. several stays in east and west africa followed, e.g. in freetown in sierra leone, in mombasa in kenya, in cameroon, on zanzibar in tanzania, on djerba and in tunis. hauser finds something in africa that he probably misses in his homeland and describes it in the following words: \"...africa has a substance - the africans have a substance - that has grabbed me, so that everything i've written lately , what i painted has to do with africa and came out of this african experience, because i see something here that i think is a view of the world...\""},"estimateMax":8000,"lotNumber":"81","title":{"de":"carry hauser* (vienna 1895 - 1985 rekawinkel)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17578/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":4000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":5000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:17.501Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac5,000 - 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hagenbund. lived temporarily in passau, together with georg philipp wörlen, reinhard hilker, fritz fuhrken and franz bronstert in the artist group der fels. from 1922 married to the classical philologist gertrude herzog-hauser. during the second world war in exile in switzerland, wife and son fled to the netherlands. from 1947 again involved in cultural reconstruction in vienna. secretary general and vice president of the p.e.n. club, honorary president of the new hagenbund. stylistic development from classical, academic training through early expressionism to new objectivity. themes such as love, death, eros, narrative representations, african images and religious themes. in addition to madonna paintings and depictions of angels, also references to liturgical processes, such as the call to lift up the hearts as the beginning of the eucharistic prayer. sursum corda - empor die herzen was also known as a catholic hymnal until 1975. \n \n carry hauser was born as karl maria hauser on february 16, 1895 in vienna. his father is an official in the ministry of the imperial house and foreign affairs, his mother maria hauser, née linke, the daughter of a moravian landowner. carry hauser and his brother heinz, who is three years his senior, are initially taught at home by their mother, who is a teacher. hauser grew up in an art-interested environment of the viennese educated middle class, with frequent visits to the theater and exhibitions. from 1905 to 1910 he attended the schottengymnasium in vienna and then switched to the graphic teaching and research institute for two years. at the same time, he completed an evening course in ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek at the school of applied arts. 1912 carry hauser attended the school of applied arts for two years, first in general form theory with oskar strnad and in the second year in nature studies with adolf böhm. during this time he received basic artistic training in the general department under the direction of alfred roller, which was characterized by extensive practical workshop training using a wide variety of techniques. he also attends the evening nude class with oskar kokoschka, the class for nude studies with anton von kenner, ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek and writing and heraldry with rudolf von larisch. in november 1914 he left the school of arts and crafts early, after passing all the exams, and in the same month he volunteered in the army with the deutschmeister regiment as k. and k. deutschmeister. after training as an officer, he was transferred to the first infantry regiment in austria-silesia, where he did his military service in present-day poland, ukraine and the czech republic. towards the end of the war he stayed in chernivtsi and worked on pictures for a regiment exhibition. the experiences of the war, the contact to intellectual and pacifist circles and above all the death of his brother heinz shaped him and allowed him to emerge from the war as a pacifist. back in vienna after the end of the war, hauser established contacts with the art historian, art critic and collector arthur roessler and the playwright franz theodor csokor, for whom he designed stage sets and costumes. hauser is a founding and executive member (until 1922) of the artists' association die freie bewegungs (the free movement), which organizes exhibitions of international contemporary art. at the same time, he works as an artist for the wiener graphische werkstätte publishing house, which mainly publishes modern austrian literature. from the very beginning he devoted himself intensively to theater and literature in addition to the fine arts. in october 1919, carry hauser had his first personal exhibition in the house of the young artists. the modern art of the interwar period has fallen into oblivion and young artists orientate themselves towards international trends and the conservative taste in art of the national socialists is increasingly harder to shake off. hauser begins to campaign for the reconstruction of the modern art and cultural landscape of his homeland. he follows the events of the art club and is involved in the founding of the new hagenbund. he intensified his collaboration with theater and literary circles and from 1947 to 1973 he was a member of the austrian p.e.n. clubs, of which he became general secretary in 1952 and where he also served as vice president until 1972. in 1947, a personal exhibition with 50 works from the period after 1938 took place in lincoln, usa. in 1949 he received the city of vienna prize for graphics and applied arts. in 1951 he resigned as president of the new hagenbund due to internal disagreements. in 1952 he was a member of the professional association of austrian resistance fighters and victims of fascism. co-founder and temporarily vice-president of the professional association of austrian visual artists, member of the board of trustees of the documentation archive of the austrian resistance and president of the action against anti-semitism as well as president of the federation of modern visual artists in austria. in the 1950s he drew the illustrations for the book das weltbild der moderne by karl renner and worked on several ceramic mosaics for the municipality of vienna (including voltagasse 1210 vienna, märzstraße 1150 vienna, theresienbad 1120 vienna, simonygasse 1180 vienna). from the 1960s on, carry hauser regularly travels to croatia, israel and above all to africa. numerous sketches are created on these trips, in which he captures nature and the local people. at the same time he takes part in international exhibitions, in 1960 in the kunstverein braunschweig and in the galerie de bourgogne in paris, in 1964 a personal exhibition in jerusalem follows. one year later, in 1965, he received the golden medal of honor and in 1985 the ring of honor of the city of vienna. until the end of his life, it was above all the experiences of his travels to afrika that had the greatest impact on his artistic work. his love for africa began in 1967 with a cruise on a cargo steamer via gibraltar and the suez canal to south africa. several stays in east and west africa followed, e.g. in freetown in sierra leone, in mombasa in kenya, in cameroon, on zanzibar in tanzania, on djerba and in tunis. hauser finds something in africa that he probably misses in his homeland and describes it in the following words: \"...africa has a substance - the africans have a substance - that has grabbed me, so that everything i've written lately , what i painted has to do with africa and came out of this african experience, because i see something here that i think is a view of the world...\""},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"82","title":{"de":"carry hauser* (vienna 1895 - 1985 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studied at the kunstgewerbeschule under erich mallina, rudolf larisch, carl otto czeschka and berthold löffler, among others. 1908 participated in the art show of gustav klimt. exhibits with egon schiele and oskar kokoschka. around 1910 marries the dancer grete wiesenthal. worked as a stage designer in vienna and berlin for max reinhardt, among others. friendship with oskar kokoschka and franz von zülow. 1924 - 1938 member of the hagenbund, from 1946 member of the vienna secession, also membership of the salzkammergut artists' guild. created graphic works, also cycles and numerous posters and illustrations for grete wiesenthal, an important representative of modern expressive dance. \n \n as the son of the social worker and women's rights activist marie lang, lang attended alfred roller's school of applied arts together with kokoschka and schiele. as early as 1908 he exhibited his works at the vienna art show and in 1911 as part of the hagenbund. his artistic focus was on the technique of the woodcut. after being a prisoner of war in russia, from which he was only able to escape via china in 1920, he worked mainly as a stage decorator in vienna and berlin. it's one of the most beautiful things i've seen (...). she is so immaterial and so modest, almost entirely dancing, floating art and yet so very human in the goodness of her intelligent feeling.\u201d these rapturous words come from a contemporary's personal memory of meeting the dancer grete wiesenthal. if you believe the contemporary descriptions, there is hardly anyone who is not enchanted by the charm, the elegance, the dancing ability, but also the kindness and philanthropy of the famous dancer. the admiration of the artist can also be clearly felt in the works of erwin lang shown here. the two are married to each other from 1910 to 1920 and have a son together. lang met the young dancer when he was attending the applied arts school and working on nude and movement studies. grete wiesenthal was initially a 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wiesenthal, an important representative of modern expressive dance. \n \n as the son of the social worker and women's rights activist marie lang, lang attended alfred roller's school of applied arts together with kokoschka and schiele. as early as 1908 he exhibited his works at the vienna art show and in 1911 as part of the hagenbund. his artistic focus was on the technique of the woodcut. after being a prisoner of war in russia, from which he was only able to escape via china in 1920, he worked mainly as a stage decorator in vienna and berlin. it's one of the most beautiful things i've seen (...). she is so immaterial and so modest, almost entirely dancing, floating art and yet so very human in the goodness of her intelligent feeling.\u201d these rapturous words come from a contemporary's personal memory of meeting the dancer grete wiesenthal. if you believe the contemporary descriptions, there is hardly anyone who is not enchanted by the charm, the elegance, the dancing ability, but also the kindness and philanthropy of the famous dancer. the admiration of the artist can also be clearly felt in the works of erwin lang shown here. the two are married to each other from 1910 to 1920 and have a son together. lang met the young dancer when he was attending the applied arts school and working on nude and movement studies. grete wiesenthal was initially a solo dancer in the vienna court opera ballet and left the opera in 1908 to found an independent dance group with her sisters. in the same year, the three wiesenthal sisters celebrate a resounding success with their modern dance style at the cabaret fledermaus."},"estimateMax":300,"lotNumber":"84","title":{"de":"erwin lang* (vienna 1886 - 1962 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century. studied at the kunstgewerbeschule under erich mallina, rudolf larisch, carl otto czeschka and berthold löffler, among others. 1908 participated in the art show of gustav klimt. exhibits with egon schiele and oskar kokoschka. around 1910 marries the dancer grete wiesenthal. worked as a stage designer in vienna and berlin for max reinhardt, among others. friendship with oskar kokoschka and franz von zülow. 1924 - 1938 member of the hagenbund, from 1946 member of the vienna secession, also membership of the salzkammergut artists' guild. created graphic works, also cycles and numerous posters and illustrations for grete wiesenthal, an important representative of modern expressive dance. \n \n as the son of the social worker and women's rights activist marie lang, lang attended alfred roller's school of applied arts together with kokoschka and schiele. as early as 1908 he exhibited his works at the vienna art show and in 1911 as part of the hagenbund. his artistic focus was on the technique of the woodcut. after being a prisoner of war in russia, from which he was only able to escape via china in 1920, he worked mainly as a stage decorator in vienna and berlin. it's one of the most beautiful things i've seen (...). she is so immaterial and so modest, almost entirely dancing, floating art and yet so very human in the goodness of her intelligent feeling.\u201d these rapturous words come from a contemporary's personal memory of meeting the dancer grete wiesenthal. if you believe the contemporary descriptions, there is hardly anyone who is not enchanted by the charm, the elegance, the dancing ability, but also the kindness and philanthropy of the famous dancer. the admiration of the artist can also be clearly felt in the works of erwin lang shown here. the two are married to each other from 1910 to 1920 and have a son together. lang met the young dancer when he was attending the applied arts school and working on nude and movement studies. grete wiesenthal was initially a solo dancer in the vienna court opera ballet and left the opera in 1908 to found an independent dance group with her sisters. in the same year, the three wiesenthal sisters celebrate a resounding success with their modern dance style at the cabaret fledermaus."},"estimateMax":300,"lotNumber":"85","title":{"de":"erwin lang* (vienna 1886 - 1962 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17582/view","tags":["daFineart_PrintsandMultiples","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":200,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:17.538Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac200 - \u20ac300","currency":"EUR","id":17582,"estimateMin":200},{"startPrice":2000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17583/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17583/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"max oppenheimer* (vienna 1903 - 1954 new 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cubism and collaboration on the journal die aktion. 1915 to 1925 in switzerland, beginning his exploration of music. end of the 1920s in berlin and from 1931 again in vienna. 1932 emigration via switzerland to the usa. in 1937 his works were classified by the nazis as degenerate art. created mainly portraits, religious depictions and scenes from everyday life. numerous expressionist works with influences from cubism and futurism on the theme of music, impressive depictions of composers, conductors, musicians and famous orchestras such as the string quartet founded by the brothers arnold rosé and eduard rosé in 1882. only the hands of the musicians paul fischer, arnold rosé, anton ruzitska and anton walter are visible, the tense fingers, the bows and instruments condense into intense playing. \n \n the idea of making music the subject of fine arts results from the rise of music in the 19th century in the competition between artistic genres, the \"paragone\", which has been held since the baroque era. the \"ut pictura poesis\" (\"like painting, like poetry\"), which goes back to horace's \"ars poetica\", was replaced by the emphasis on the close connection between painting and music: \"ut pictura musica\". max oppenheimer, a gifted painter and graphic artist and one of the most important proponents of early expressionism in austria along with schiele and kokoschka, was also a passionate musician. not only did he have an extraordinary musical education, he also played the violin very well. he owned two valuable violins, a vuillamue and one of the earliest amatis from 1606. during his time in switzerland from 1915 to 1925 he began to artistically deal with the subject of music, incorporating stylistic devices of futurism and cubism. oppenheimer dealt with the rosé quartet several times and created the monumental oil painting \"the symphony\" in 1923, which shows the vienna philharmonic under gustav mahler's baton and can be admired in the belvedere. the rosé quartet, one of the most important ensembles of the early 20th century, was founded in vienna in 1882 by the brothers eduard and arnold rosé and gave its last concert in 1945 in exile in london. as a sensitive observer, oppenheimer describes the devotion of the rosé quartet in the following words: \"as soon as the first chords sounded, i found myself in front of other people. their heads bowed and seemed to be listening inward.\u201d oppenheimer's works impress with their high quality of technical and artistic execution. above all, he always succeeds in depicting movement in a two-dimensional still image and in translating the acoustic into the visual."},"estimateMax":4500,"lotNumber":"86","title":{"de":"max oppenheimer* (vienna 1903 - 1954 new 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163 \n provenance: private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 3.000 - 5.000 \n \n austrian artist of the 20th century. important representative of the austrian avant-garde. 1900 to 1903 studied at the academy of fine arts in vienna, 1903 to 1906 at the prague academy of arts. 1906 member of the prague group osma (the eight), including representatives of the czech avant-garde such as otakar kubín, emil filla, bohumil kubišta and emil artur longen, among others. in 1908 and 1909 participated in the vienna art show. early influences of vincent van gogh, counted among the viennese expressionists around egon schiele, oskar kokoschka and albert paris gütersloh. 1911 to 1915 in berlin, involvement with cubism and collaboration on the journal die aktion. 1915 to 1925 in switzerland, beginning his exploration of music. end of the 1920s in berlin and from 1931 again in vienna. 1932 emigration via switzerland to the usa. in 1937 his works were classified by the nazis as degenerate art. created mainly portraits, religious depictions and scenes from everyday life. numerous expressionist works with influences from cubism and futurism on the theme of music, impressive depictions of orchestras, composers and conductors. focus on the visual representation of music interplay of musicians' hands, sheet music and instruments such as the famous violins from the amati family of violin makers from cremona. \n \n the idea of making music the subject of fine arts results from the rise of music in the 19th century in the competition between artistic genres, the \"paragone\", which has been held since the baroque era. the \"ut pictura poesis\" (\"like painting, like poetry\"), which goes back to horace's \"ars poetica\", was replaced by the emphasis on the close connection between painting and music: \"ut pictura musica\". max oppenheimer, a gifted painter and graphic artist and one of the most important proponents of early expressionism in austria along with schiele and kokoschka, was also a passionate musician. not only did he have an extraordinary musical education, he also played the violin very well. he owned two valuable violins, a vuillamue and one of the earliest amatis from 1606. during his time in switzerland from 1915 to 1925 he began to artistically deal with the subject of music, incorporating stylistic devices of futurism and cubism. oppenheimer dealt with the rosé quartet several times and created the monumental oil painting \"the symphony\" in 1923, which shows the vienna philharmonic under gustav mahler's baton and can be admired in the belvedere. the rosé quartet, one of the most important ensembles of the early 20th century, was founded in vienna in 1882 by the brothers eduard and arnold rosé and gave its last concert in 1945 in exile in london. as a sensitive observer, oppenheimer describes the devotion of the rosé quartet in the following words: \"as soon as the first chords sounded, i found myself in front of other people. their heads bowed and seemed to be listening inward.\u201d oppenheimer's works impress with their high quality of technical and artistic execution. above all, he always succeeds in depicting movement in a two-dimensional still image and in translating the acoustic into the visual. 12 years later, the lithograph of \u201camati\u201d was created as a companion piece that was submitted later, whereby oppenheimer had already realized the motif in 1918 as an oil painting and in 1924 as a lithograph for a hagenbund poster. his favorite violin from the cremonese workshop is presented to us twice, from different perspectives and again disregarding the conventional space-time structure. both hands of the anonymous musician, probably identical to oppenheimer's again, can also be seen twice each. once the right bows the strings, once she plays pizzicato. the dynamics in \"rosé-quartett\" and in \"die amati\" are real and immediate: the hands making the music and the instruments are in motion just as violently as the sheet music."},"estimateMax":5000,"lotNumber":"87","title":{"de":"max oppenheimer* (vienna 1903 - 1954 new york)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17584/view","tags":["daFineart_PrintsandMultiples","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":2500,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":5000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:17.543Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac3,000 - \u20ac5,000","currency":"EUR","id":17584,"estimateMin":3000},{"startPrice":250000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17585/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17585/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17585/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"wilhelm thöny (graz 1888 - 1949 new york)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"wilhelm thöny \n (graz 1888 - 1949 new york) \n the fine arts, 1923 \n oil/canvas, 180 x 265 cm \n signed w. thöny \n depicted in cat. raisonné wilhelm thöny, im sog der moderne, graz 2013, n. 156 \n provenance: theatercafe thalia graz, private collection italy, private collection austria \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 300.000 - 600.000 \n \n austrian painter, graphic artist, etcher and illustrator of the 20th century, important representative of austrian modernism. 1908 to 1912 studied at the academy of fine arts with angelo jank and gabriel von hackl. also training in singing and playing the piano. co-founder of the munich secession, lifelong acquaintance with alfred kubin. as a one-year volunteer in world war i, he created portrait studies and illustrations as a regimental painter. 1923 co-founder of the graz secession. 1925 marries thea herrmann-trautner, daughter of the american painter frank s. herrmann, sister of the painter and caricaturist eva herrmann. 1929 first stay in paris, lived in paris from 1931 to 1938. 1938 emigrated to new york with his jewish wife. 1948 destruction of most of his works in a fire in a warehouse in new york. diverse themes and techniques, landscapes and above all cityscapes of large cities such as paris and new york. the genre scenes also show engagement with advard munch and august macke. \n \n wilhelm thöny occupies a prominent position in austrian modernism of the interwar period. coming from the styrian capital of graz, which was artistically overshadowed by vienna at the time, thöny did not go to vienna in 1908 to study art \u2013 like many of his artist colleagues \u2013 but to the more progressive munich. at this point in time, his inclinations were initially divided equally between music and painting, and he was still undecided as to which of the two arts he wanted to devote himself to. it was only when thöny received an offer as a singer that he decided against music and concentrated on his career as an aspiring visual artist. after a stay in switzerland, wilhelm thöny returned to graz in 1923, where he founded the graz secession together with alfred wickenburg, fritz silberbauer and axel leskoschek, of which he became the first president. the paintings and watercolors of the post-war period are shaped by the experiences of the war and influenced by a gloom that is expressed in melancholy colors determined by dark paints. at the same time, thöny was also a man of society. he regularly attended the theatre, the opera and concerts and watched the actors and musicians with passion. against this background, it is not surprising that he produced three pictures for the thalia theater café in graz at exactly the same time, in the year of his arrival in graz. the two sibling pictures are in collections of museums and represent drama and opera. poetry, music and painting are symbolized in this piece. in front of a plain blue background, framed by fruit-bearing plants, the figures of poetry and drama as well as music and painting sit and stand side by side. the figures are positioned on a pedestal, with thöny giving the most important place to the art of acting. in the embodiment of an elegantly dressed lady with fiery red hair, she stands on the highest level. she is inclined towards the poet or an actor who has put one foot on the podium and is reciting from the page, bent over. the sitter is probably herbert thöny, wilhelm's brother, who was a successful baritone at the graz opera. the violinist on the showwoman's right is engrossed in his playing, his face hidden by the brim of his deep-drawn hat. he provides the musical accompaniment to the scene and remains anonymous. finally, the art of painting is embodied on the right edge of the picture. it is a self-portrait by thöny that shows him standing upright with a concentrated gaze. in a self-confident pose he stands in front of the easel and captures the depiction. in terms of colour, thöny limits the painting to five colors and emphasizes important details with a well-considered color scheme. all too often the term major work is used to praise a painting. this is justified in the large-format painting in which wilhelm thöny takes us into the world of fine art and allegory."},"estimateMax":600000,"lotNumber":"88","title":{"de":"wilhelm thöny (graz 1888 - 1949 new york)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17585/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":250000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:17.545Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac300,000 - \u20ac600,000","currency":"EUR","id":17585,"estimateMin":300000},{"startPrice":2000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17586/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17586/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"wilhelm thöny (graz 1888 - 1949 new york)"},"soldDate":"2022-05-19","available":false,"description":{"de":"wilhelm thöny \n (graz 1888 - 1949 new york) \n the young and the eldery \n indian ink/paper, 21,7 x 28,4 cm \n signed w. thöny \n provenance: private property vienna \n \n \n estimate \u20ac 2.000 - 3.000 \n \n austrian painter, graphic artist, etcher and illustrator of the 20th century, important representative of austrian modernism. 1908 to 1912 studied at the academy of fine arts with angelo jank and gabriel von hackl. also training in singing and playing the piano. co-founder of the munich secession, lifelong acquaintance with alfred kubin. as a one-year volunteer in world war i, he created portrait studies and illustrations as a regimental painter. 1923 co-founder of the graz secession. 1925 marries thea herrmann-trautner, daughter of the american painter frank s. herrmann, sister of the painter and caricaturist eva herrmann. 1929 first stay in paris, lived in paris from 1931 to 1938. 1938 emigrated to new york with his jewish wife. 1948 destruction of most of his works in a fire in a warehouse in new york. diverse themes and techniques, landscapes and above all cityscapes of large cities such as paris and new york. the genre scenes also show engagement with advard munch and august macke. \n \n wilhelm thöny's caricature-like drawing titled \"jung und alt\" is one of many sketchy, light-handed works on paper by the artist, in which he gives us an insight into his understanding of humor, which is characterized by irony. the present scene does not necessarily have to have been intended as an allegory, but due to the ironic exaggeration of the depiction, this interpretation nevertheless suggests itself. the young woman with a short dress and a daring back neckline, with a cigarette deliberately casually balanced on her lower lip, looks down provocatively at the much smaller, plump woman, who routinely carries a basket in the crook of her arm, so is obviously more used to working than to smoking in a youthful, casual manner , and looks back rather grimly. what is meant here is not the simple comparison of the life phases young and old, which makes the inevitability of aging the subject of consideration, but the constant generational conflict, which is anything but a new topic. the complaint can already be read on a 5,000-year-old sumerian clay tablet: \"young people no longer respect their age, deliberately appear unkempt, contemplate overthrow, show no willingness to learn and reject accepted values.\" temporally closer to thöny kurt tucholsky, writing in 1931: \"the different ages of man mistake each other for different races: old people have usually forgotten that they were young, or they forget that they are old, and young people never realize that they can grow old. but it was only after the second world war that the teenager, starting in the usa, became a subject who was actually acting and not just viewed with suspicion by the elderly. the main reason was by no means rock'n'roll, but the increasing commercialization and in this context the fact that modern marketing recognized teenagers as a 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2.000 - 3.000 \n \n austrian painter, graphic artist, etcher and illustrator of the 20th century, important representative of austrian modernism. 1908 to 1912 studied at the academy of fine arts with angelo jank and gabriel von hackl. also training in singing and playing the piano. co-founder of the munich secession, lifelong acquaintance with alfred kubin. as a one-year volunteer in world war i, he created portrait studies and illustrations as a regimental painter. 1923 co-founder of the graz secession. 1925 marries thea herrmann-trautner, daughter of the american painter frank s. herrmann, sister of the painter and caricaturist eva herrmann. 1929 first stay in paris, lived in paris from 1931 to 1938. 1938 emigrated to new york with his jewish wife. 1948 destruction of most of his works in a fire in a warehouse in new york. diverse themes and techniques, landscapes and above all cityscapes of large cities such as paris and new york. the genre scenes also show engagement with advard munch and august macke. \n \n thöny pursues something profound in the ink drawing with the figure on the roof of a house, which is balancing here in the middle of a settlement that is only hinted at in a nightgown with a view into the distance. in the background, the moon rises above the middle ground, which thöny sketches vaguely as a seascape. one could see a sleepwalker in the woman. many myths and theories have formed around somnambulism throughout history. this is what the father of psychoanalysis, sigmund freud, said in 1915: he linked somnambulism to the fulfillment of repressed sexual desires and at the same time proposed the theory that sleepwalkers want to return to where they slept as children. equally likely, however, is the interpretation that the person looking longingly into the distance is a person desperately seeking exile, who now sees no way out on the edge of the roof and, as a farewell, one last look at the port of sanary-sur-mer as the final destination of their emigration. in the 1930s, the city on the french mediterranean coast was a meeting place for numerous european intellectuals and artists, and thöny also depicted it in several of his paintings. in the drawing, the sun sets in front of the suicidal woman. thöny managed to escape. in 1938 he finally emigrated to new york with his jewish wife thea."},"estimateMax":3000,"lotNumber":"90","title":{"de":"wilhelm thöny (graz 1888 - 1949 new york)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17587/view","tags":["daFineart_DrawingsandPastels","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":2000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:17.566Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,000 - 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1925: the daughter of the painter frank herrmann, thea trautner, who would later become his second wife. in 1927, thöny worked for the munich magazine \"die jugend\" and the berlin magazine \"cross section\". after receiving the title of professor from the austrian federal president in july 1929, he and his wife traveled to paris for a few weeks in september. a year later he was honored by the austrian federal government with an honorary state award and at the same time became a full member of the vienna, prague and new munich secessions. in 1931, thöny decided to move to paris with his american wife thea herrmann-trautner. in his cityscapes of the french metropolis, which he created as drawings, watercolors or oil paintings, his artistic sense for the atmospheric is sharpened and his delving into the hallucinatory and visionary is part of his unmistakable pictorial language. in thöny's paris cityscape, bathed in nocturnal blue, we see the paris city hall from an elevated position on the other bank of the seine, probably from a window of a building on the quais de bourbon or the place louis aragon. the painting shows references to abstract expressionism due to its web of coarse, erratic strokes and dabs of paint, from which rhythms and structures are formed. but thöny was also fascinated by the observation of the most diverse social classes and everyday events. he kept in touch with his circle of friends at home: thöny liked to correspond and corresponded a lot because he wanted to share his experiences with the friends he had left behind in graz, especially during those years in paris. to this end he often provided these letters with delightful marginal drawings for better illustration. sometimes, with the same intention, he enclosed drawings the size of a letterhead with his letters, which is still remembered today by the creases in the paper of these drawings. in 1938, thöny felt so unsettled by the political developments that he and his second wife, american 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iles d´or, 1931 \n watercolor/paper, 38,5 x 51,5 cm \n signed w. eisenschitz \n provenance: private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 2.000 - 3.000 \n \n austrian-french painter of the 20th century. came from a jewish family and began studying painting at the academy in vienna in 1911. went to paris in 1912 to the academie de la grande chaumière. acquaintance with the painter claire bertrand, marriage before the beginning of the first world war. interned during the war and released at the end of the war. 1921 first stay in the south of france, transformation of his artistic work under the impression of the southern light. suffered repeatedly from health problems, stays in the climatic health resort dieulefît. moved to la valette- du-var near toulon. member of the societé nationale des beaux arts, exhibited at the salon d'automnes in paris, also at the galerie durand-ruel and the museum in toulon. maintained contacts in paris with josef floch, viktor tischler, georg merkel and walter bondy. during world war ii, retreated to dieulefît, signed his works with the pseudonym villiers. from 1951 also travels to ibiza, lived alternately in paris and provence. after the death of his wife in 1969, he returned to paris. created mainly oil paintings and watercolors with landscapes and cityscapes, influenced by nature and the light of southern france. \n \n willy eisenschitz, born in vienna into a jewish family of lawyers, found his future field of work in art only indirectly, because his parents urged him to first learn a day job. in contrast, during this personal development phase, his passion was with the french impressionists, whom he met at the international exhibitions of the vienna secession between 1897 and 1905. fascinated by french art, he went to paris in 1912, where he subsequently studied at the académie de la grande chaumière. in 1914 he married his fellow student claire bertrand. from 1921 eisenschitz spent the summers in provence and took part in 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these landscapes on paper as watercolors, he achieves an even more direct effect. the landscapes captivate with their colorful multifacetedness as well as their painterly verve, with which eisenschitz captures the most diverse landscapes and their inherent mood. in a letter to a french friend and collector, eisenschitz wrote: \"as always, one has to get off the road and climb the hills off the trail to feel the scenery. but then i am overwhelmed to be here and find it difficult to work because the views and wealth of the region are so magnificent.\u201d"},"estimateMax":3000,"lotNumber":"92","title":{"de":"willy eisenschitz* (vienna 1889 - 1974 paris)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17589/view","tags":["daFineart_Watercolors","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":1500,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":1500,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:17.523Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,000 - 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the first world war. interned during the war and released at the end of the war. 1921 first stay in the south of france, transformation of his artistic work under the impression of the southern light. suffered repeatedly from health problems, stays in the climatic health resort dieulefît. moved to la valette- du-var near toulon. member of the societé nationale des beaux arts, exhibited at the salon d'automnes in paris, also at the galerie durand-ruel and the museum in toulon. maintained contacts in paris with josef floch, viktor tischler, georg merkel and walter bondy. during world war ii, retreated to dieulefît, signed his works with the pseudonym villiers. from 1951 also travels to ibiza, lived alternately in paris and provence. after the death of his wife in 1969, he returned to paris. created mainly oil paintings and watercolors with landscapes and cityscapes, influenced by nature and the light of southern france. \n \n willy eisenschitz, born in vienna into a jewish family of 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stylistically, his colorful works can be assigned more to french modernism and the école de paris than to an austrian art movement. in the works selected here, too, eisenschitz invokes the coloring of the artistic genius loci; to paul cézanne and his landscapes from provence created after 1880. with muted olive green, rusty brown and ocher tones, which cézanne prefers to use in this phase, eisenschitz builds up the partially terraced landscape here, on the level of which the roads and field edges are lined with tall poplars and cypresses. when eisenschitz puts these landscapes on paper as watercolors, he achieves an even more direct effect. the landscapes captivate with their colorful multifacetedness as well as their painterly verve, with which eisenschitz captures the most diverse landscapes and their inherent mood. in a letter to a french friend and collector, eisenschitz wrote: \"as always, one has to get off the road and climb the hills off the trail to feel the scenery. but then 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eisenschitz* \n (vienna 1889 - 1974 paris) \n at the seine in paris, 1957 \n oil/canvas, 60,3 x 45,6 cm \n signed w. eisenschitz and dated 1957 \n provenance: private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 8.000 - 14.000 \n \n austrian-french painter of the 20th century. came from a jewish family and began studying painting at the academy in vienna in 1911. went to paris in 1912 to the academie de la grande chaumière. acquaintance with the painter claire bertrand, marriage before the beginning of the first world war. interned during the war and released at the end of the war. 1921 first stay in the south of france, transformation of his artistic work under the impression of the southern light. suffered repeatedly from health problems, stays in the climatic health resort dieulefît. moved to la valette- du-var near toulon. member of the societé nationale des beaux arts, exhibited at the salon d'automnes in paris, also at the galerie durand-ruel and the museum in toulon. maintained contacts in paris with josef floch, viktor tischler, georg merkel and walter bondy. during world war ii, retreated to dieulefît, signed his works with the pseudonym villiers. from 1951 also travels to ibiza, lived alternately in paris and provence. after the death of his wife in 1969, he returned to paris. created mainly oil paintings and watercolors with landscapes and cityscapes, influenced by nature and the light of southern france. \n \n willy eisenschitz, born in vienna into a jewish family of lawyers, found his future field of work in art only indirectly, because his parents urged him to first learn a day job. in contrast, during this personal development phase, his passion was with the french impressionists, whom he met at the international exhibitions of the vienna secession between 1897 and 1905. fascinated by french art, he went to paris in 1912, where he subsequently studied at the académie de la grande chaumière. in 1914 he married his fellow student claire bertrand. from 1921 eisenschitz spent the summers in provence and took part in exhibitions throughout france. since then, willy eisenschitz has felt an inseparable connection to provence. thanks to his flexibility in painting and compositional security, he was soon able to capture the most diverse moods and, above all, the light of the south in his oil paintings and watercolors. he masterfully combined rocky, rugged elements with the simultaneous tenderness and harmony of these impressive stretches of land. stylistically, his colorful works can be assigned more to french modernism and the école de paris than to an austrian art movement. in the works selected here, too, eisenschitz invokes the coloring of the artistic genius loci; to paul cézanne and his landscapes from provence created after 1880. with muted olive green, rusty brown and ocher tones, which cézanne prefers to use in this phase, eisenschitz builds up the partially terraced landscape here, on the level of which the roads and field edges are lined with tall poplars and cypresses. when eisenschitz puts these landscapes on paper as watercolors, he achieves an even more direct effect. the landscapes captivate with their colorful multifacetedness as well as their painterly verve, with which eisenschitz captures the most diverse landscapes and their inherent mood. in a letter to a french friend and collector, eisenschitz wrote: \"as always, one has to get off the road and climb the hills off the trail to feel the scenery. but then i am overwhelmed to be here and find it difficult to work because the views and wealth of the region are so magnificent.\u201d"},"estimateMax":14000,"lotNumber":"96","title":{"de":"willy eisenschitz* (vienna 1889 - 1974 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illustrator of the 20th century. first worked as a photographer, from 1898 in munich at the private painting school of ludwig schmid-reutte. 1902 first exhibition in berlin. 1903 publication of the weber folder, made possible by the sponsors max dauthendey and hans von weber. from 1906 based in wernstein am inn at zwickledt castle. mainly active as a draftsman, created single sheets and series that appeared as portfolios and book illustrations. 1912 and 1913 participation in blue rider exhibitions. lifelong friendship with fritz von herzmanovsky. from 1912 illustrations for simplicissimus. works characterized by uncanny and spooky elements, dealing with works by james ensor, max klinger, edvard munch and odilon redon. parallels to e.t.a. hoffmanns, f. dostojewskijs and e.a. poe. mainly ink drawings, often with demonic, nightmarish scenes and a penchant for the grotesque. also dealing with historical topics or humorous depiction of human characteristics. \n \n alfred kubin had a troubled childhood. the mother died early and the family moved frequently. unsure of which vocation he should follow, he first completed an apprenticeship as a photographer. in 1898 kubin went to munich, studied at the academy, but soon continued to educate himself. encountering the works of ensor, klinger, munch and redon was decisive for the young kubin. his first exhibition in berlin in 1902 caused a lack of understanding. however, important sponsors turned up in the form of the poet max dauthendey and the collector and publisher hans von weber. the publication of the weber portfolio in 1903 brought about the breakthrough. already in the spring of that year, kubin was represented in the secession exhibition. he met fritz von herzmanovsky, with whom he had a lifelong friendship, and established contacts with important expressionist artists. in 1912 he began to work for the newly founded \"simplicissimus\". during the first world war, kubin dealt with psychoanalysis and philosophy. in 1921 he had his first retrospective. he produced a large number of lithographs and was also active as a writer. countless works in magazines and illustrations for writers followed. kubin's oeuvre is full of surprising pictorial ideas from his almost inexhaustible world of life and dreams - full of secrets and abysses, bizarreness and banality, whereby many of his drawings elude any conventional interpretation. perhaps this is one of the reasons why kubin's cosmos of images is mostly categorized as pandemonium. this overly one-sided reading wrongly overshadowed what was cheerful, humorous and all too human in alfred kubin's graphic work. it is precisely his subtle caricature of bourgeois phaeacism and the all too ostentatious display of enjoyment. kubin also works again and again on proverbs and concepts such as the \"old horse\", he also titled a trotting down and emaciated old nag with \"age\". the old saying \u201conce an old horse gets going, it can no longer be stopped\u201d proves 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york/greenland \n provenance: private property vienna \n \n \n estimate \u20ac 1.500 - 3.000 \n \n austrian painter, graphic artist and book illustrator of the 20th century. first worked as a photographer, from 1898 in munich at the private painting school of ludwig schmid-reutte. 1902 first exhibition in berlin. 1903 publication of the weber folder, made possible by the sponsors max dauthendey and hans von weber. from 1906 based in wernstein am inn at zwickledt castle. mainly active as a draftsman, created single sheets and series that appeared as portfolios and book illustrations. 1912 and 1913 participation in blue rider exhibitions. lifelong friendship with fritz von herzmanovsky. from 1912 illustrations for simplicissimus. works characterized by uncanny and spooky elements, dealing with works by james ensor, max klinger, edvard munch and odilon redon. parallels to e.t.a. hoffmanns, f. dostojewskijs and e.a. poe. mainly ink drawings, often with demonic, nightmarish scenes and a penchant for the grotesque. also dealing with historical topics or humorous depiction of human characteristics. \n \n alfred kubin had a troubled childhood. the mother died early and the family moved frequently. unsure of which vocation he should follow, he first completed an apprenticeship as a photographer. in 1898 kubin went to munich, studied at the academy, but soon continued to educate himself. encountering the works of ensor, klinger, munch and redon was decisive for the young kubin. his first exhibition in berlin in 1902 caused a lack of understanding. however, important sponsors turned up in the form of the poet max dauthendey and the collector and publisher hans von weber. the publication of the weber portfolio in 1903 brought about the breakthrough. already in the spring of that year, kubin was represented in the secession exhibition. he met fritz von herzmanovsky, with whom he had a lifelong friendship, and established contacts with important expressionist artists. in 1912 he began to work for the newly founded \"simplicissimus\". during the first world war, kubin dealt with psychoanalysis and philosophy. in 1921 he had his first retrospective. he produced a large number of lithographs and was also active as a writer. countless works in magazines and illustrations for writers followed. kubin's oeuvre is full of surprising pictorial ideas from his almost inexhaustible world of life and dreams - full of secrets and abysses, bizarreness and banality, whereby many of his drawings elude any conventional interpretation. perhaps this is one of the reasons why kubin's cosmos of images is mostly categorized as pandemonium. this overly one-sided reading wrongly overshadowed what was cheerful, humorous and all too human in alfred kubin's graphic work. it is precisely his subtle caricature of bourgeois phaeacism and the all too ostentatious display of enjoyment. the ink drawing of the seal hunt shows a cultural practice that was not as stigmatized in kubin's day as it is today. while seal hunting is part of the traditional way of life of various indigenous peoples such as the eskimos, it is above all the industrially operated seal hunt that conservationists have been fighting with increasing success since the 1970s at the latest. the clothing and armament of the two hunters in the picture, as well as their ship waiting in the background, point to the heyday of industrial seal hunting in the 19th century. there has been an import ban on seal products in the eu since 2009. norway was one of the last countries to ban seal hunting in 2015. kubin's seals are not cuddly victims of brutal slaughter, but monstrous creatures of the sea against which man defends himself."},"estimateMax":3000,"lotNumber":"98","title":{"de":"alfred kubin* (litomerice 1877 - 1959 wernstein am 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°\u20ac 4.000 - 8.000 \n \n austrian painter, graphic artist and book illustrator of the 20th century. first worked as a photographer, from 1898 in munich at the private painting school of ludwig schmid-reutte. 1902 first exhibition in berlin. 1903 publication of the weber folder, made possible by the sponsors max dauthendey and hans von weber. from 1906 based in wernstein am inn at zwickledt castle. mainly active as a draftsman, created single sheets and series that appeared as portfolios and book illustrations. 1912 and 1913 participation in blue rider exhibitions. lifelong friendship with fritz von herzmanovsky. from 1912 illustrations for simplicissimus. works characterized by uncanny and spooky elements, dealing with works by james ensor, max klinger, edvard munch and odilon redon. parallels to e.t.a. hoffmanns, f. dostojewskijs and e.a. poe. mainly ink drawings, often with demonic, nightmarish scenes and a penchant for the grotesque. also dealing with historical topics or humorous depiction of human characteristics. \n \n alfred kubin had a troubled childhood. the mother died early and the family moved frequently. unsure of which vocation he should follow, he first completed an apprenticeship as a photographer. in 1898 kubin went to munich, studied at the academy, but soon continued to educate himself. encountering the works of ensor, klinger, munch and redon was decisive for the young kubin. his first exhibition in berlin in 1902 caused a lack of understanding. however, important sponsors turned up in the form of the poet max dauthendey and the collector and publisher hans von weber. the publication of the weber portfolio in 1903 brought about the breakthrough. already in the spring of that year, kubin was represented in the secession exhibition. he met fritz von herzmanovsky, with whom he had a lifelong friendship, and established contacts with important expressionist artists. in 1912 he began to work for the newly founded \"simplicissimus\". during the first world war, kubin dealt with psychoanalysis and philosophy. in 1921 he had his first retrospective. he produced a large number of lithographs and was also active as a writer. countless works in magazines and illustrations for writers followed. kubin's oeuvre is full of surprising pictorial ideas from his almost inexhaustible world of life and dreams - full of secrets and abysses, bizarreness and banality, whereby many of his drawings elude any conventional interpretation. perhaps this is one of the reasons why kubin's cosmos of images is mostly categorized as pandemonium. this overly one-sided reading wrongly overshadowed what was cheerful, humorous and all too human in alfred kubin's graphic work. it is precisely his subtle caricature of bourgeois phaeacism and the all too ostentatious display of enjoyment."},"estimateMax":8000,"lotNumber":"99","title":{"de":"alfred kubin* (litomerice 1877 - 1959 wernstein am 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century. representative of the classical modernism. studied at the vienna school of applied arts from 1903 to 1906 under felician myrbach and carl otto czeschka. explored graphic techniques, developed his own paper-cutting stencil technique in 1907. participates in the 1908 art show organized by gustav klimt and josef hoffmann. commissioned by josef hofmann to design wallpaper for a children's room in the palais stoclet. from 1909 in haugsdorf, where his mother and sister lived. 1915 to 1919 military service, became an italian prisoner of war. 1920 to 1922 teacher at the schleiß ceramic workshops in gmunden. from 1922 he commuted between vienna and upper austria. arts and crafts works and illustrations for the wiener werkstätte, among others. from the 1920s also oil paintings, especially landscapes. belonged to the zinkenbach painters' colony in the interwar period, like ferdinand kitt, josef dobrowsky, ernst huber, ludwig heinrich jungnickel, oskar laske, georg merkel, louise merkel-romee and georg ehrlich. 1942 prohibited from painting. 1945 member of the vienna secession and the linz artists' association maerz. from 1949 teacher at the school of arts and crafts in linz and from 1955 president of the mühlviertler künstlergilde. influenced by the decorative and flat ornamental art of jugendstil and folk art. created mainly children's books, posters, calendar graphics, murals, wallpaper, carpets, fabrics. but also prints, watercolors, drawing and oil paintings with landscapes, rural and religious motifs, fairy-tale and fantastic scenes. \n \n franz zülow attended the graphic teaching and research institute in 1901 and 1902 and also enrolled briefly at the academy of fine arts before studying at the vienna school of applied arts from 1903 to 1906. from an early age, zülow experimented intensively with graphic techniques and in 1907 developed, among other things, the paper cutting stencil technique, which he also patented. from 1908 on, he was a member of the klimt group. in 1909 he moved to haugsdorf, where his mother and sister lived. in 1912, a scholarship enabled him to undertake an extensive study trip through western europe. from 1915 to 1919 he did military service and was taken prisoner by the italians. between 1920 and 1922 he worked as a teacher at the schleiss ceramic workshops in gmunden. from 1922 he lived alternately in vienna and upper austria and undertook several trips abroad. his decorative arts and illustrative works, which were often created for the wiener werkstätte, were characterized by the decorative verve of the secession. from the 1920s he created the first oil paintings, which, like his paste-the-wall paintings and watercolors, mainly show landscapes. in the years between 1928 and 1935 he was awarded the austrian state prize several times, and in 1942 he was forbidden to paint by the nazi regime. from 1933 to 1939 and from 1945 on, he belonged to the vienna secession and was also a member of the linz artists' association maerz. from 1949 he taught at the school of applied arts in linz and from 1955 he was president of the mühlviertler artists' guild. during this period he received numerous public commissions for murals and mosaics. the sheet \u201cverein spitalshilfe charity effects lottery\u201d from 1926 belongs in the category of occasional graphics, in which, according to the registered inserts, 400,000 tickets were issued and \u201c15 main hits worth (of) 60,000 schilling\u201d as well as a five-kilo gold bar are promised as the main hit. both the presentation and the promise of prizes unmask the sheet as a \u201ccheerful finger exercise\u201d by the artist."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"100","title":{"de":"franz von zülow* (vienna 1883 - 1963 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austria, private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 1.500 - 3.000 \n \n austrian painter of the 20th century. considered the most important salzburg painter of modernism. 1904 to 1906 at the private painting school of r. scheffers, 1906 to 1909 at the academy of fine arts vienna with alois delug and christian griepenkerl. 1909 together with egon schiele, anton kolig, robin christian andersen udn franz wiegele founded the neukunstgruppe. exhibitions at the kunstsalon pisko, in budapest, munich and in vienna at the hagenbund. 1913 marries robin christian andersen's sister, in the same year exhibits at the miehtke gallery. 1919 in salzburg with felix a. harta founding of the artist group wassermann. design of the frescoes for the salzburg festspielhaus. intensive study of the works of paul cezanne, development of a moderate expressionism. created mainly landscapes, still lifes and portraits. designed the poster for the 1917 exhibition of austrian art at liljevalchs kunsthalle in stockholm, sweden. exhibited there alongside gustav klimt, egon schiele, oskar kokoschka and anton hanak as the main representatives of the austrian moeder. the design shows a simplified version of a portrait of his wife ida. \n \n at the end of august 1917, a train journey lasting several days brought six travelers from vienna to the capital of neutral sweden, a playground for agents, reformers and revolutionaries and a few weeks earlier the scene of the peace conference of the second international, which had remained ineffective. the tour group consisted of key protagonists of the austrian art scene: albin egger-lienz, anton faistauer, gustav klimt, oskar kokoschka, egon schiele and anton hanak. under the guidance of the architect josef hoffmann, the artists worked from september 3rd to 6th on the construction of the \"österrikisk konstutställning\", consisting of approx. 650 exhibits, which is scheduled to open on september 8th in the new liljevalchs konsthall for contemporary art and is part of a \"austrian week\u201d with readings, concerts and fashion shows. this largely forgotten charm offensive by the young emperor karl's government was intended to show that austria had lost none of its creative power despite the war. the propaganda show was organized by karl bittner, commercial attaché of the austro-hungarian embassy, originally not on behalf of the k. u.k. (\u201cimperial and royal\u201d, referring to the habsburgs dual monarchy austria-hungary) ministry of foreign affairs, but of the k. u.k. ministry of war, or the war press quarters. organization and selection of the works of art were entrusted to josef hoffmann. after an initial wrangling over competences between civil and military authorities, the project was finally handed over completely to civilian hands through bittner's mediation. in order to save face, the war ministry put forward the much-invoked austro-hungarian parity as the alleged reason. anton faistauer was entrusted with designing the exhibition poster. the final version, a lithograph, shows a young woman in a high-necked dress, seated, in semi-profile, her hands resting loosely on her thighs. she looks serious but confident. faistauer's design comes very close to the end result; except that the dress is blue instead of red and the woman bows her head shyly. faistauer has not yet completely mastered the draft of the swedish text. it simply doesn't fit all the letters of \"österrikisk konstutställning i liljevachs-konsthall\". he blurred the word \"september\" and thus already corrected it to the final \"sept\". the daily opening hours will be shortened to \u201c10 a.m. \u2013 4 a.m.\u201d. the bourgeois simplicity of the seated female figure and the poster design as a whole are an example of the conflict between civil society and the military power that was becoming increasingly apparent in the penultimate year of the war, as well as the longing for peace of the population oppressed by the war. faistauer's pastel drawing is a fascinating historical document of this little-known major cultural and political offensive of the tottering empire."},"estimateMax":3000,"lotNumber":"101","title":{"de":"anton faistauer (st. martin bei lofer 1887 - 1930 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and fresco artist of the 20th century. counts among the so-called lost or forgotten generation. attended the technical school for textile industry in vienna, 1917 to 1924 training at the school of arts and crafts with oskar strnad, alfred böhm, alfred roller, erich mallina, wilhelm müller-hofmann, adele stark. 1923/1924 in the workshop for enamel painting with josef hoffmann, then his own workshop for enamel work. exhibited as a guest and associate member of the hagenbund. member of the artists' association wiener frauenkunst. in the 1920s travels to paris, southern france and england. 1930 studio in paris, friendship with josef floch. created mainly landscapes, still lifes, portraits, genre and history paintings, and frescoes. influence of josef floch and georg merkel recognizable. \n \n zach attended the technical school for the textile industry in vienna and then received her training at the school of applied arts from 1917 to 1924 with oskar strnad, alfred böhm, alfred roller, erich mallina, wilhelm müller-hofmann, adele stark and from 1923 to 1924 with josef hoffmann in the workshop for enamel painting. she acquired her own kiln and made vessels from enamel, later mainly enamel pictures. in 1926 she was commissioned to paint frescoes in a small prayer chapel near heiligenblut. the artists' community \"wiener frauenkunst\" accepted her as a member. she regularly took part in the exhibitions of \"viennese women's art\", some of which took place in the rooms of the hagenbund. in 1929 she exhibited as a guest in the hagenbund and later became an extraordinary member. in 1927 she stayed in southern france and in 1928, following an invitation from friends, went to england, where she found a patron. this enabled her further stays in ireland and a studio in paris, which she maintained from 1930. in the summer of 1930 she received the prize of the city of vienna for her works created in paris. shortly before her first solo exhibition in france, she died of a stomach ailment. after her death, zach was initially forgotten, only to be rediscovered in the large hagenbund exhibition at the österreichische galerie belvedere."},"estimateMax":100,"lotNumber":"102","title":{"de":"franziska zach (losenstein 1900 - 1930 paris)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17301/view","tags":["daFineart_PrintsandMultiples","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":50,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":1000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.654Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac50 - \u20ac100","currency":"EUR","id":17301,"estimateMin":50},{"startPrice":500,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17302/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17302/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"carry hauser* (vienna 1895 - 1985 rekawinkel)"},"soldDate":"2022-05-19","available":false,"description":{"de":"carry hauser* \n (vienna 1895 - 1985 rekawinkel) \n blue head \n indian ink, washed/paper, 14,9 x 10,5 cm \n depicted in carry hauser, vienna 2018, p. 34, n. 105 \n provenance: estate of the artist, fine arts widder vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 500 - 800 \n \n austrian painter, stage designer, poet, writer of the 20th century. studied at the school of applied arts in vienna under alfred roller, oskar strnad, anton von kenner and adolf michael boehm. in 1914 he volunteered for the first world war and returned as a pacifist. befriended franz theodor csokor and promoted by arthur roessler. member of the artist group freie bewegung and from 1925 to 1938 member of the hagenbund. lived temporarily in passau, together with georg philipp wörlen, reinhard hilker, fritz fuhrken and franz bronstert in the artist group der fels. from 1922 married to the classical philologist gertrude herzog-hauser. during the second world war in exile in switzerland, wife and son fled to the netherlands. from 1947 again involved in cultural reconstruction in vienna. secretary general and vice president of the p.e.n. club, honorary president of the new hagenbund. stylistic development from classical, academic training through early expressionism to new objectivity. themes such as love, death, eros, narrative representations, religious themes. from the mid-1960s, trips to africa, increasingly african motifs. \n \n carry hauser was born as karl maria hauser on february 16, 1895 in vienna. his father is an official in the ministry of the imperial house and foreign affairs, his mother maria hauser, née linke, the daughter of a moravian landowner. carry hauser and his brother heinz, who is three years his senior, are initially taught at home by their mother, who is a teacher. hauser grew up in an art-interested environment of the viennese educated middle class, with frequent visits to the theater and exhibitions. from 1905 to 1910 he attended the schottengymnasium in vienna and then switched to the graphic teaching and research institute for two years. at the same time, he completed an evening course in ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek at the school of applied arts. 1912 carry hauser attended the school of applied arts for two years, first in general form theory with oskar strnad and in the second year in nature studies with adolf böhm. during this time he received basic artistic training in the general department under the direction of alfred roller, which was characterized by extensive practical workshop training using a wide variety of techniques. he also attends the evening nude class with oskar kokoschka, the class for nude studies with anton von kenner, ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek and writing and heraldry with rudolf von larisch. in november 1914 he left the school of arts and crafts early, after passing all the exams, and in the same month he volunteered in the army with the deutschmeister regiment as k. and k. deutschmeister. after training as an officer, he was transferred to the first infantry regiment in austria-silesia, where he did his military service in present-day poland, ukraine and the czech republic. towards the end of the war he stayed in chernivtsi and worked on pictures for a regiment exhibition. the experiences of the war, the contact to intellectual and pacifist circles and above all the death of his brother heinz shaped him and allowed him to emerge from the war as a pacifist. back in vienna after the end of the war, hauser established contacts with the art historian, art critic and collector arthur roessler and the playwright franz theodor csokor, for whom he designed stage sets and costumes. hauser is a founding and executive member (until 1922) of the artists' association die freie bewegungs (the free movement), which organizes exhibitions of international contemporary art. at the same time, he works as an artist for the wiener graphische werkstätte publishing house, which mainly publishes modern austrian literature. from the very beginning he devoted himself intensively to theater and literature in addition to the fine arts. in october 1919, carry hauser had his first personal exhibition in the house of the young artists. the modern art of the interwar period has fallen into oblivion and young artists orientate themselves towards international trends and the conservative taste in art of the national socialists is increasingly harder to shake off. hauser begins to campaign for the reconstruction of the modern art and cultural landscape of his homeland. he follows the events of the art club and is involved in the founding of the new hagenbund. he intensified his collaboration with theater and literary circles and from 1947 to 1973 he was a member of the austrian p.e.n. clubs, of which he became general secretary in 1952 and where he also served as vice president until 1972. in 1947, a personal exhibition with 50 works from the period after 1938 took place in lincoln, usa. in 1949 he received the city of vienna prize for graphics and applied arts. in 1951 he resigned as president of the new hagenbund due to internal disagreements. in 1952 he was a member of the professional association of austrian resistance fighters and victims of fascism. co-founder and temporarily vice-president of the professional association of austrian visual artists, member of the board of trustees of the documentation archive of the austrian resistance and president of the action against anti-semitism as well as president of the federation of modern visual artists in austria. in the 1950s he drew the illustrations for the book das weltbild der moderne by karl renner and worked on several ceramic mosaics for the municipality of vienna (including voltagasse 1210 vienna, märzstraße 1150 vienna, theresienbad 1120 vienna, simonygasse 1180 vienna). from the 1960s on, carry hauser regularly travels to croatia, israel and above all to africa. numerous sketches are created on these trips, in which he captures nature and the local people. at the same time he takes part in international exhibitions, in 1960 in the kunstverein braunschweig and in the galerie de bourgogne in paris, in 1964 a personal exhibition in jerusalem follows. one year later, in 1965, he received the golden medal of honor and in 1985 the ring of honor of the city of vienna. until the end of his life, it was above all the experiences of his travels to afrika that had the greatest impact on his artistic work. his love for africa began in 1967 with a cruise on a cargo steamer via gibraltar and the suez canal to south africa. several stays in east and west africa followed, e.g. in freetown in sierra leone, in mombasa in kenya, in cameroon, on zanzibar in tanzania, on djerba and in tunis. hauser finds something in africa that he probably misses in his homeland and describes it in the following words: \"...africa has a substance - the africans have a substance - that has grabbed me, so that everything i've written lately , what i painted has to do with africa and came out of this african experience, because i see something here that i think is a view of the world...\""},"estimateMax":800,"lotNumber":"103","title":{"de":"carry hauser* (vienna 1895 - 1985 rekawinkel)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17302/view","tags":["daFineart_DrawingsandPastels","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":500,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":600,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.678Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac500 - \u20ac800","currency":"EUR","id":17302,"estimateMin":500},{"startPrice":1000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17303/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17303/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17303/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"franz von zülow* (vienna 1883 - 1963 vienna)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"franz 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werkstätte, among others. from the 1920s also oil paintings, especially landscapes. belonged to the zinkenbach painters' colony in the interwar period, like ferdinand kitt, josef dobrowsky, ernst huber, ludwig heinrich jungnickel, oskar laske, georg merkel, louise merkel-romee and georg ehrlich. 1942 prohibited from painting. 1945 member of the vienna secession and the linz artists' association maerz. from 1949 teacher at the school of arts and crafts in linz and from 1955 president of the mühlviertler künstlergilde. influenced by the decorative and flat ornamental art of jugendstil and folk art. created mainly children's books, posters, calendar graphics, murals, wallpaper, carpets, fabrics. but also prints, watercolors, drawing and oil paintings with landscapes, rural and religious motifs, fairy-tale and fantastic scenes. comes from a series of depictions of military hospitals from the possession of dr. dietrich moldauer. \n \n franz zülow attended the graphic teaching and research institute in 1901 and 1902 and also enrolled briefly at the academy of fine arts before studying at the vienna school of applied arts from 1903 to 1906. from an early age, zülow experimented intensively with graphic techniques and in 1907 developed, among other things, the paper cutting stencil technique, which he also patented. from 1908 on, he was a member of the klimt group. in 1909 he moved to haugsdorf, where his mother and sister lived. in 1912, a scholarship enabled him to undertake an extensive study trip through western europe. from 1915 to 1919 he did military service and was taken prisoner by the italians. between 1920 and 1922 he worked as a teacher at the schleiss ceramic workshops in gmunden. from 1922 he lived alternately in vienna and upper austria and undertook several trips abroad. his decorative arts and illustrative works, which were often created for the wiener werkstätte, were characterized by the decorative verve of the secession. from the 1920s he created the first oil paintings, which, like his paste-the-wall paintings and watercolors, mainly show landscapes. in the years between 1928 and 1935 he was awarded the austrian state prize several times, and in 1942 he was forbidden to paint by the nazi regime. from 1933 to 1939 and from 1945 on, he belonged to the vienna secession and was also a member of the linz artists' association maerz. from 1949 he taught at the school of applied arts in linz and from 1955 he was president of the mühlviertler artists' guild. during this period he received numerous public commissions for murals and mosaics. based on photos from 1915, franz zülow drew and painted these snapshots from the infirmary at vienna's ostbahnhof in 1922. both zülow's drawings and the photographic templates come from the estate of the head of the station, dr. dietrich moldauer. the historical photo material to which zülow refers in his drawings can also be found in an elaborately made brochure with the title: \"sick station with night's rest at the ostbahnhof in vienna of the patriotic aid association of the red cross for lower austria. report on activities from the beginning of the war to september 1915\". this station in the k.u.k. the premises of the vienna ostbahnhof made available to the state railway administration were opened shortly after the outbreak of the first world war, on august 20, 1914. it had the purpose of \"providing accommodation, meals and medical assistance to sick, wounded and convalescent officers and crew members passing through vienna as a transit station\". its director, the art-loving dr. dietrich moldauer, k.u.k. lieutenant a. d., first delegate of the red cross patriotic aid association in lower austria. to date, however, it is unclear how this order came about and what the intentions of the client, dr. moldovans associated with it. franz zülow knows only too well the horrors of the first world war from his own painful experience, after all he fought as a soldier between 1915 and 1918 in hungary, albania and italy, where he was taken prisoner of war by the italians on july 12, 1918 and only released from there on august 22, 1918. august 1919 can return. zülow chooses the templates for his drawings from photos by charles skolik, which are also shown in the brochure mentioned above."},"estimateMax":2500,"lotNumber":"104","title":{"de":"franz von zülow* (vienna 1883 - 1963 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17303/view","tags":["daFineart_DrawingsandPastels","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":1000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.697Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,500 - 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stencil technique in 1907. participates in the 1908 art show organized by gustav klimt and josef hoffmann. commissioned by josef hofmann to design wallpaper for a children's room in the palais stoclet. from 1909 in haugsdorf, where his mother and sister lived. 1915 to 1919 military service, became an italian prisoner of war. 1920 to 1922 teacher at the schleiß ceramic workshops in gmunden. from 1922 he commuted between vienna and upper austria. arts and crafts works and illustrations for the wiener werkstätte, among others. from the 1920s also oil paintings, especially landscapes. belonged to the zinkenbach painters' colony in the interwar period, like ferdinand kitt, josef dobrowsky, ernst huber, ludwig heinrich jungnickel, oskar laske, georg merkel, louise merkel-romee and georg ehrlich. 1942 prohibited from painting. 1945 member of the vienna secession and the linz artists' association maerz. from 1949 teacher at the school of arts and crafts in linz and from 1955 president of the mühlviertler künstlergilde. influenced by the decorative and flat ornamental art of jugendstil and folk art. created mainly children's books, posters, calendar graphics, murals, wallpaper, carpets, fabrics. but also prints, watercolors, drawing and oil paintings with landscapes, rural and religious motifs, fairy-tale and fantastic scenes. comes from a series of depictions of military hospitals from the possession of dr. dietrich moldauer. \n \n franz zülow attended the graphic teaching and research institute in 1901 and 1902 and also enrolled briefly at the academy of fine arts before studying at the vienna school of applied arts from 1903 to 1906. from an early age, zülow experimented intensively with graphic techniques and in 1907 developed, among other things, the paper cutting stencil technique, which he also patented. from 1908 on, he was a member of the klimt group. in 1909 he moved to haugsdorf, where his mother and sister lived. in 1912, a scholarship enabled him to undertake an extensive study trip through western europe. from 1915 to 1919 he did military service and was taken prisoner by the italians. between 1920 and 1922 he worked as a teacher at the schleiss ceramic workshops in gmunden. from 1922 he lived alternately in vienna and upper austria and undertook several trips abroad. his decorative arts and illustrative works, which were often created for the wiener werkstätte, were characterized by the decorative verve of the secession. from the 1920s he created the first oil paintings, which, like his paste-the-wall paintings and watercolors, mainly show landscapes. in the years between 1928 and 1935 he was awarded the austrian state prize several times, and in 1942 he was forbidden to paint by the nazi regime. from 1933 to 1939 and from 1945 on, he belonged to the vienna secession and was also a member of the linz artists' association maerz. from 1949 he taught at the school of applied arts in linz and from 1955 he was president of the mühlviertler artists' guild. during this period he received numerous public commissions for murals and mosaics. based on photos from 1915, franz zülow drew and painted these snapshots from the infirmary at vienna's ostbahnhof in 1922. both zülow's drawings and the photographic templates come from the estate of the head of the station, dr. dietrich moldauer. the historical photo material to which zülow refers in his drawings can also be found in an elaborately made brochure with the title: \"sick station with night's rest at the ostbahnhof in vienna of the patriotic aid association of the red cross for lower austria. report on activities from the beginning of the war to september 1915\". this station in the k.u.k. the premises of the vienna ostbahnhof made available to the state railway administration were opened shortly after the outbreak of the first world war, on august 20, 1914. it had the purpose of \"providing accommodation, meals and medical assistance to sick, wounded and convalescent officers and crew members passing through vienna as a transit station\". its director, the art-loving dr. dietrich moldauer, k.u.k. lieutenant a. d., first delegate of the red cross patriotic aid association in lower austria. to date, however, it is unclear how this order came about and what the intentions of the client, dr. moldovans associated with it. franz zülow knows only too well the horrors of the first world war from his own painful experience, after all he fought as a soldier between 1915 and 1918 in hungary, albania and italy, where he was taken prisoner of war by the italians on july 12, 1918 and only released from there on august 22, 1918. august 1919 can return. zülow chooses the templates for his drawings from photos by charles skolik, which are also shown in the brochure mentioned above."},"estimateMax":2500,"lotNumber":"105","title":{"de":"franz von zülow* (vienna 1883 - 1963 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property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 1.500 - 2.500 \n \n austrian painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. representative of the classical modernism. studied at the vienna school of applied arts from 1903 to 1906 under felician myrbach and carl otto czeschka. explored graphic techniques, developed his own paper-cutting stencil technique in 1907. participates in the 1908 art show organized by gustav klimt and josef hoffmann. commissioned by josef hofmann to design wallpaper for a children's room in the palais stoclet. from 1909 in haugsdorf, where his mother and sister lived. 1915 to 1919 military service, became an italian prisoner of war. 1920 to 1922 teacher at the schleiß ceramic workshops in gmunden. from 1922 he commuted between vienna and upper austria. arts and crafts works and illustrations for the wiener werkstätte, among others. from the 1920s also oil paintings, especially landscapes. belonged to the zinkenbach painters' colony in the interwar period, like ferdinand kitt, josef dobrowsky, ernst huber, ludwig heinrich jungnickel, oskar laske, georg merkel, louise merkel-romee and georg ehrlich. 1942 prohibited from painting. 1945 member of the vienna secession and the linz artists' association maerz. from 1949 teacher at the school of arts and crafts in linz and from 1955 president of the mühlviertler künstlergilde. influenced by the decorative and flat ornamental art of jugendstil and folk art. created mainly children's books, posters, calendar graphics, murals, wallpaper, carpets, fabrics. but also prints, watercolors, drawing and oil paintings with landscapes, rural and religious motifs, fairy-tale and fantastic scenes. comes from a series of depictions of military hospitals from the possession of dr. dietrich moldauer. \n \n franz zülow attended the graphic teaching and research institute in 1901 and 1902 and also enrolled briefly at the academy of fine arts before studying at the vienna school of applied arts from 1903 to 1906. from an early age, zülow experimented intensively with graphic techniques and in 1907 developed, among other things, the paper cutting stencil technique, which he also patented. from 1908 on, he was a member of the klimt group. in 1909 he moved to haugsdorf, where his mother and sister lived. in 1912, a scholarship enabled him to undertake an extensive study trip through western europe. from 1915 to 1919 he did military service and was taken prisoner by the italians. between 1920 and 1922 he worked as a teacher at the schleiss ceramic workshops in gmunden. from 1922 he lived alternately in vienna and upper austria and undertook several trips abroad. his decorative arts and illustrative works, which were often created for the wiener werkstätte, were characterized by the decorative verve of the secession. from the 1920s he created the first oil paintings, which, like his paste-the-wall paintings and watercolors, mainly show landscapes. in the years between 1928 and 1935 he was awarded the austrian state prize several times, and in 1942 he was forbidden to paint by the nazi regime. from 1933 to 1939 and from 1945 on, he belonged to the vienna secession and was also a member of the linz artists' association maerz. from 1949 he taught at the school of applied arts in linz and from 1955 he was president of the mühlviertler artists' guild. during this period he received numerous public commissions for murals and mosaics. based on photos from 1915, franz zülow drew and painted these snapshots from the infirmary at vienna's ostbahnhof in 1922. both zülow's drawings and the photographic templates come from the estate of the head of the station, dr. dietrich moldauer. the historical photo material to which zülow refers in his drawings can also be found in an elaborately made brochure with the title: \"sick station with night's rest at the ostbahnhof in vienna of the patriotic aid association of the red cross for lower austria. report on activities from the beginning of the war to september 1915\". this station in the k.u.k. the premises of the vienna ostbahnhof made available to the state railway administration were opened shortly after the outbreak of the first world war, on august 20, 1914. it had the purpose of \"providing accommodation, meals and medical assistance to sick, wounded and convalescent officers and crew members passing through vienna as a transit station\". its director, the art-loving dr. dietrich moldauer, k.u.k. lieutenant a. d., first delegate of the red cross patriotic aid association in lower austria. to date, however, it is unclear how this order came about and what the intentions of the client, dr. moldovans associated with it. franz zülow knows only too well the horrors of the first world war from his own painful experience, after all he fought as a soldier between 1915 and 1918 in hungary, albania and italy, where he was taken prisoner of war by the italians on july 12, 1918 and only released from there on august 22, 1918. august 1919 can return. zülow chooses the templates for his drawings from photos by charles skolik, which are also shown in the brochure mentioned above."},"estimateMax":2500,"lotNumber":"106","title":{"de":"franz von zülow* (vienna 1883 - 1963 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17305/view","tags":["daFineart_DrawingsandPastels","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":1000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":1200,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.717Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,500 - \u20ac2,500","currency":"EUR","id":17305,"estimateMin":1500},{"startPrice":10000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17306/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17306/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17306/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"carry hauser* (vienna 1895 - 1985 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hilker, fritz fuhrken and franz bronstert in the artist group der fels. from 1922 married to the classical philologist gertrude herzog-hauser. during the second world war in exile in switzerland, wife and son fled to the netherlands. from 1947 again involved in cultural reconstruction in vienna. secretary general and vice president of the p.e.n. club, honorary president of the new hagenbund. stylistic development from classical, academic training through early expressionism to new objectivity. themes such as love, death, eros, narrative representations, religious themes. from the mid-1960s, trips to africa, increasingly african motifs. \n \n carry hauser was born as karl maria hauser on february 16, 1895 in vienna. his father is an official in the ministry of the imperial house and foreign affairs, his mother maria hauser, née linke, the daughter of a moravian landowner. carry hauser and his brother heinz, who is three years his senior, are initially taught at home by their mother, who is a teacher. hauser grew up in an art-interested environment of the viennese educated middle class, with frequent visits to the theater and exhibitions. from 1905 to 1910 he attended the schottengymnasium in vienna and then switched to the graphic teaching and research institute for two years. at the same time, he completed an evening course in ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek at the school of applied arts. 1912 carry hauser attended the school of applied arts for two years, first in general form theory with oskar strnad and in the second year in nature studies with adolf böhm. during this time he received basic artistic training in the general department under the direction of alfred roller, which was characterized by extensive practical workshop training using a wide variety of techniques. he also attends the evening nude class with oskar kokoschka, the class for nude studies with anton von kenner, ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek and writing and heraldry with rudolf von larisch. in november 1914 he left the school of arts and crafts early, after passing all the exams, and in the same month he volunteered in the army with the deutschmeister regiment as k. and k. deutschmeister. after training as an officer, he was transferred to the first infantry regiment in austria-silesia, where he did his military service in present-day poland, ukraine and the czech republic. towards the end of the war he stayed in chernivtsi and worked on pictures for a regiment exhibition. the experiences of the war, the contact to intellectual and pacifist circles and above all the death of his brother heinz shaped him and allowed him to emerge from the war as a pacifist. back in vienna after the end of the war, hauser established contacts with the art historian, art critic and collector arthur roessler and the playwright franz theodor csokor, for whom he designed stage sets and costumes. hauser is a founding and executive member (until 1922) of the artists' association die freie bewegungs (the free movement), which organizes exhibitions of international contemporary art. at the same time, he works as an artist for the wiener graphische werkstätte publishing house, which mainly publishes modern austrian literature. from the very beginning he devoted himself intensively to theater and literature in addition to the fine arts. in october 1919, carry hauser had his first personal exhibition in the house of the young artists. the modern art of the interwar period has fallen into oblivion and young artists orientate themselves towards international trends and the conservative taste in art of the national socialists is increasingly harder to shake off. hauser begins to campaign for the reconstruction of the modern art and cultural landscape of his homeland. he follows the events of the art club and is involved in the founding of the new hagenbund. he intensified his collaboration with theater and literary circles and from 1947 to 1973 he was a member of the austrian p.e.n. clubs, of which he became general secretary in 1952 and where he also served as vice president until 1972. in 1947, a personal exhibition with 50 works from the period after 1938 took place in lincoln, usa. in 1949 he received the city of vienna prize for graphics and applied arts. in 1951 he resigned as president of the new hagenbund due to internal disagreements. in 1952 he was a member of the professional association of austrian resistance fighters and victims of fascism. co-founder and temporarily vice-president of the professional association of austrian visual artists, member of the board of trustees of the documentation archive of the austrian resistance and president of the action against anti-semitism as well as president of the federation of modern visual artists in austria. in the 1950s he drew the illustrations for the book das weltbild der moderne by karl renner and worked on several ceramic mosaics for the municipality of vienna (including voltagasse 1210 vienna, märzstraße 1150 vienna, theresienbad 1120 vienna, simonygasse 1180 vienna). from the 1960s on, carry hauser regularly travels to croatia, israel and above all to africa. numerous sketches are created on these trips, in which he captures nature and the local people. at the same time he takes part in international exhibitions, in 1960 in the kunstverein braunschweig and in the galerie de bourgogne in paris, in 1964 a personal exhibition in jerusalem follows. one year later, in 1965, he received the golden medal of honor and in 1985 the ring of honor of the city of vienna. until the end of his life, it was above all the experiences of his travels to afrika that had the greatest impact on his artistic work. his love for africa began in 1967 with a cruise on a cargo steamer via gibraltar and the suez canal to south africa. several stays in east and west africa followed, e.g. in freetown in sierra leone, in mombasa in kenya, in cameroon, on zanzibar in tanzania, on djerba and in tunis. hauser finds something in africa that he probably misses in his homeland and describes it in the following words: \"...africa has a substance - the africans have a substance - that has grabbed me, so that everything i've written lately , what i painted has to do with africa and came out of this african experience, because i see something here that i think is a view of the world...\""},"estimateMax":15000,"lotNumber":"107","title":{"de":"carry hauser* (vienna 1895 - 1985 rekawinkel)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17306/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":10000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.729Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac10,000 - 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evening nude class with oskar kokoschka, the class for nude studies with anton von kenner, ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek and writing and heraldry with rudolf von larisch. in november 1914 he left the school of arts and crafts early, after passing all the exams, and in the same month he volunteered in the army with the deutschmeister regiment as k. and k. deutschmeister. after training as an officer, he was transferred to the first infantry regiment in austria-silesia, where he did his military service in present-day poland, ukraine and the czech republic. towards the end of the war he stayed in chernivtsi and worked on pictures for a regiment exhibition. the experiences of the war, the contact to intellectual and pacifist circles and above all the death of his brother heinz shaped him and allowed him to emerge from the war as a pacifist. back in vienna after the end of the war, hauser established contacts with the art historian, art critic and collector arthur roessler and the playwright franz theodor csokor, for whom he designed stage sets and costumes. hauser is a founding and executive member (until 1922) of the artists' association die freie bewegungs (the free movement), which organizes exhibitions of international contemporary art. at the same time, he works as an artist for the wiener graphische werkstätte publishing house, which mainly publishes modern austrian literature. from the very beginning he devoted himself intensively to theater and literature in addition to the fine arts. in october 1919, carry hauser had his first personal exhibition in the house of the young artists. the modern art of the interwar period has fallen into oblivion and young artists orientate themselves towards international trends and the conservative taste in art of the national socialists is increasingly harder to shake off. hauser begins to campaign for the reconstruction of the modern art and cultural landscape of his homeland. he follows the events of the art club and is involved in the founding of the new hagenbund. he intensified his collaboration with theater and literary circles and from 1947 to 1973 he was a member of the austrian p.e.n. clubs, of which he became general secretary in 1952 and where he also served as vice president until 1972. in 1947, a personal exhibition with 50 works from the period after 1938 took place in lincoln, usa. in 1949 he received the city of vienna prize for graphics and applied arts. in 1951 he resigned as president of the new hagenbund due to internal disagreements. in 1952 he was a member of the professional association of austrian resistance fighters and victims of fascism. co-founder and temporarily vice-president of the professional association of austrian visual artists, member of the board of trustees of the documentation archive of the austrian resistance and president of the action against anti-semitism as well as president of the federation of modern visual artists in austria. in the 1950s he drew the illustrations for the book das weltbild der moderne by karl renner and worked on several ceramic mosaics for the municipality of vienna (including voltagasse 1210 vienna, märzstraße 1150 vienna, theresienbad 1120 vienna, simonygasse 1180 vienna). from the 1960s on, carry hauser regularly travels to croatia, israel and above all to africa. numerous sketches are created on these trips, in which he captures nature and the local people. at the same time he takes part in international exhibitions, in 1960 in the kunstverein braunschweig and in the galerie de bourgogne in paris, in 1964 a personal exhibition in jerusalem follows. one year later, in 1965, he received the golden medal of honor and in 1985 the ring of honor of the city of vienna. until the end of his life, it was above all the experiences of his travels to afrika that had the greatest impact on his artistic work. his love for africa began in 1967 with a cruise on a cargo steamer via gibraltar and the suez canal to south africa. several stays in east and west africa followed, e.g. in freetown in sierra leone, in mombasa in kenya, in cameroon, on zanzibar in tanzania, on djerba and in tunis. hauser finds something in africa that he probably misses in his homeland and describes it in the following words: \"...africa has a substance - the africans have a substance - that has grabbed me, so that everything i've written lately , what i painted has to do with africa and came out of this african experience, because i see something here that i think is a view of the world...\""},"estimateMax":800,"lotNumber":"108","title":{"de":"carry hauser* (vienna 1895 - 1985 rekawinkel)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17307/view","tags":["daFineart_DrawingsandPastels","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":500,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":500,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.731Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac500 - 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oskar kokoschka, the class for nude studies with anton von kenner, ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek and writing and heraldry with rudolf von larisch. in november 1914 he left the school of arts and crafts early, after passing all the exams, and in the same month he volunteered in the army with the deutschmeister regiment as k. and k. deutschmeister. after training as an officer, he was transferred to the first infantry regiment in austria-silesia, where he did his military service in present-day poland, ukraine and the czech republic. towards the end of the war he stayed in chernivtsi and worked on pictures for a regiment exhibition. the experiences of the war, the contact to intellectual and pacifist circles and above all the death of his brother heinz shaped him and allowed him to emerge from the war as a pacifist. back in vienna after the end of the war, hauser established contacts with the art historian, art critic and collector arthur roessler and the playwright franz theodor csokor, for whom he designed stage sets and costumes. hauser is a founding and executive member (until 1922) of the artists' association die freie bewegungs (the free movement), which organizes exhibitions of international contemporary art. at the same time, he works as an artist for the wiener graphische werkstätte publishing house, which mainly publishes modern austrian literature. from the very beginning he devoted himself intensively to theater and literature in addition to the fine arts. in october 1919, carry hauser had his first personal exhibition in the house of the young artists. the modern art of the interwar period has fallen into oblivion and young artists orientate themselves towards international trends and the conservative taste in art of the national socialists is increasingly harder to shake off. hauser begins to campaign for the reconstruction of the modern art and cultural landscape of his homeland. he follows the events of the art club and is involved in the founding of the new hagenbund. he intensified his collaboration with theater and literary circles and from 1947 to 1973 he was a member of the austrian p.e.n. clubs, of which he became general secretary in 1952 and where he also served as vice president until 1972. in 1947, a personal exhibition with 50 works from the period after 1938 took place in lincoln, usa. in 1949 he received the city of vienna prize for graphics and applied arts. in 1951 he resigned as president of the new hagenbund due to internal disagreements. in 1952 he was a member of the professional association of austrian resistance fighters and victims of fascism. co-founder and temporarily vice-president of the professional association of austrian visual artists, member of the board of trustees of the documentation archive of the austrian resistance and president of the action against anti-semitism as well as president of the federation of modern visual artists in austria. in the 1950s he drew the illustrations for the book das weltbild der moderne by karl renner and worked on several ceramic mosaics for the municipality of vienna (including voltagasse 1210 vienna, märzstraße 1150 vienna, theresienbad 1120 vienna, simonygasse 1180 vienna). from the 1960s on, carry hauser regularly travels to croatia, israel and above all to africa. numerous sketches are created on these trips, in which he captures nature and the local people. at the same time he takes part in international exhibitions, in 1960 in the kunstverein braunschweig and in the galerie de bourgogne in paris, in 1964 a personal exhibition in jerusalem follows. one year later, in 1965, he received the golden medal of honor and in 1985 the ring of honor of the city of vienna. until the end of his life, it was above all the experiences of his travels to afrika that had the greatest impact on his artistic work. his love for africa began in 1967 with a cruise on a cargo steamer via gibraltar and the suez canal to south africa. several stays in east and west africa followed, e.g. in freetown in sierra leone, in mombasa in kenya, in cameroon, on zanzibar in tanzania, on djerba and in tunis. hauser finds something in africa that he probably misses in his homeland and describes it in the following words: \"...africa has a substance - the africans have a substance - that has grabbed me, so that everything i've written lately , what i painted has to do with africa and came out of this african experience, because i see something here that i think is a view of the world...\""},"estimateMax":800,"lotNumber":"109","title":{"de":"carry hauser* (vienna 1895 - 1985 rekawinkel)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17308/view","tags":["daFineart_DrawingsandPastels","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":500,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:19.734Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac500 - 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arts in vienna under alfred roller, oskar strnad, anton von kenner and adolf michael boehm. in 1914 he volunteered for the first world war and returned as a pacifist. befriended franz theodor csokor and promoted by arthur roessler. member of the artist group freie bewegung and from 1925 to 1938 member of the hagenbund. lived temporarily in passau, together with georg philipp wörlen, reinhard hilker, fritz fuhrken and franz bronstert in the artist group der fels. from 1922 married to the classical philologist gertrude herzog-hauser. during the second world war in exile in switzerland, wife and son fled to the netherlands. from 1947 again involved in cultural reconstruction in vienna. secretary general and vice president of the p.e.n. club, honorary president of the new hagenbund. stylistic development from classical, academic training through early expressionism to new objectivity. themes such as love, death, eros, narrative representations, religious themes. from the mid-1960s, trips to africa, increasingly african motifs. man and nature away from western civilization in the jungle, in the jungle. originality and innocence of children and boys in the african bush. \n \n carry hauser was born as karl maria hauser on february 16, 1895 in vienna. his father is an official in the ministry of the imperial house and foreign affairs, his mother maria hauser, née linke, the daughter of a moravian landowner. carry hauser and his brother heinz, who is three years his senior, are initially taught at home by their mother, who is a teacher. hauser grew up in an art-interested environment of the viennese educated middle class, with frequent visits to the theater and exhibitions. from 1905 to 1910 he attended the schottengymnasium in vienna and then switched to the graphic teaching and research institute for two years. at the same time, he completed an evening course in ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek at the school of applied arts. 1912 carry hauser attended the school of applied arts for two years, first in general form theory with oskar strnad and in the second year in nature studies with adolf böhm. during this time he received basic artistic training in the general department under the direction of alfred roller, which was characterized by extensive practical workshop training using a wide variety of techniques. he also attends the evening nude class with oskar kokoschka, the class for nude studies with anton von kenner, ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek and writing and heraldry with rudolf von larisch. in november 1914 he left the school of arts and crafts early, after passing all the exams, and in the same month he volunteered in the army with the deutschmeister regiment as k. and k. deutschmeister. after training as an officer, he was transferred to the first infantry regiment in austria-silesia, where he did his military service in present-day poland, ukraine and the czech republic. towards the end of the war he stayed in chernivtsi and worked on pictures for a regiment exhibition. the experiences of the war, the contact to intellectual and pacifist circles and above all the death of his brother heinz shaped him and allowed him to emerge from the war as a pacifist. back in vienna after the end of the war, hauser established contacts with the art historian, art critic and collector arthur roessler and the playwright franz theodor csokor, for whom he designed stage sets and costumes. hauser is a founding and executive member (until 1922) of the artists' association die freie bewegungs (the free movement), which organizes exhibitions of international contemporary art. at the same time, he works as an artist for the wiener graphische werkstätte publishing house, which mainly publishes modern austrian literature. from the very beginning he devoted himself intensively to theater and literature in addition to the fine arts. in october 1919, carry hauser had his first personal exhibition in the house of the young artists. the modern art of the interwar period has fallen into oblivion and young artists orientate themselves towards international trends and the conservative taste in art of the national socialists is increasingly harder to shake off. hauser begins to campaign for the reconstruction of the modern art and cultural landscape of his homeland. he follows the events of the art club and is involved in the founding of the new hagenbund. he intensified his collaboration with theater and literary circles and from 1947 to 1973 he was a member of the austrian p.e.n. clubs, of which he became general secretary in 1952 and where he also served as vice president until 1972. in 1947, a personal exhibition with 50 works from the period after 1938 took place in lincoln, usa. in 1949 he received the city of vienna prize for graphics and applied arts. in 1951 he resigned as president of the new hagenbund due to internal disagreements. in 1952 he was a member of the professional association of austrian resistance fighters and victims of fascism. co-founder and temporarily vice-president of the professional association of austrian visual artists, member of the board of trustees of the documentation archive of the austrian resistance and president of the action against anti-semitism as well as president of the federation of modern visual artists in austria. in the 1950s he drew the illustrations for the book das weltbild der moderne by karl renner and worked on several ceramic mosaics for the municipality of vienna (including voltagasse 1210 vienna, märzstraße 1150 vienna, theresienbad 1120 vienna, simonygasse 1180 vienna). from the 1960s on, carry hauser regularly travels to croatia, israel and above all to africa. numerous sketches are created on these trips, in which he captures nature and the local people. at the same time he takes part in international exhibitions, in 1960 in the kunstverein braunschweig and in the galerie de bourgogne in paris, in 1964 a personal exhibition in jerusalem follows. one year later, in 1965, he received the golden medal of honor and in 1985 the ring of honor of the city of vienna. until the end of his life, it was above all the experiences of his travels to afrika that had the greatest impact on his artistic work. his love for africa began in 1967 with a cruise on a cargo steamer via gibraltar and the suez canal to south africa. several stays in east and west africa followed, e.g. in freetown in sierra leone, in mombasa in kenya, in cameroon, on zanzibar in tanzania, on djerba and in tunis. hauser finds something in africa that he probably misses in his homeland and describes it in the following words: \"...africa has a substance - the africans have a substance - that has grabbed me, so that everything i've written lately , what i painted has to do with africa and came out of this african experience, because i see something here that i think is a view of the world...\""},"estimateMax":15000,"lotNumber":"110","title":{"de":"carry 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to new objectivity. themes such as love, death, eros, narrative representations, religious themes. from the mid-1960s, trips to africa, increasingly african motifs. man and nature away from western civilization in the jungle, in the jungle. originality and innocence of children and boys in the african bush. \n \n carry hauser was born as karl maria hauser on february 16, 1895 in vienna. his father is an official in the ministry of the imperial house and foreign affairs, his mother maria hauser, née linke, the daughter of a moravian landowner. carry hauser and his brother heinz, who is three years his senior, are initially taught at home by their mother, who is a teacher. hauser grew up in an art-interested environment of the viennese educated middle class, with frequent visits to the theater and exhibitions. from 1905 to 1910 he attended the schottengymnasium in vienna and then switched to the graphic teaching and research institute for two years. at the same time, he completed an evening course in ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek at the school of applied arts. 1912 carry hauser attended the school of applied arts for two years, first in general form theory with oskar strnad and in the second year in nature studies with adolf böhm. during this time he received basic artistic training in the general department under the direction of alfred roller, which was characterized by extensive practical workshop training using a wide variety of techniques. he also attends the evening nude class with oskar kokoschka, the class for nude studies with anton von kenner, ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek and writing and heraldry with rudolf von larisch. in november 1914 he left the school of arts and crafts early, after passing all the exams, and in the same month he volunteered in the army with the deutschmeister regiment as k. and k. deutschmeister. after training as an officer, he was transferred to the first infantry regiment in austria-silesia, where he did his military service in present-day poland, ukraine and the czech republic. towards the end of the war he stayed in chernivtsi and worked on pictures for a regiment exhibition. the experiences of the war, the contact to intellectual and pacifist circles and above all the death of his brother heinz shaped him and allowed him to emerge from the war as a pacifist. back in vienna after the end of the war, hauser established contacts with the art historian, art critic and collector arthur roessler and the playwright franz theodor csokor, for whom he designed stage sets and costumes. hauser is a founding and executive member (until 1922) of the artists' association die freie bewegungs (the free movement), which organizes exhibitions of international contemporary art. at the same time, he works as an artist for the wiener graphische werkstätte publishing house, which mainly publishes modern austrian literature. from the very beginning he devoted himself intensively to theater and literature in addition to the fine arts. in october 1919, carry hauser had his first personal exhibition in the house of the young artists. the modern art of the interwar period has fallen into oblivion and young artists orientate themselves towards international trends and the conservative taste in art of the national socialists is increasingly harder to shake off. hauser begins to campaign for the reconstruction of the modern art and cultural landscape of his homeland. he follows the events of the art club and is involved in the founding of the new hagenbund. he intensified his collaboration with theater and literary circles and from 1947 to 1973 he was a member of the austrian p.e.n. clubs, of which he became general secretary in 1952 and where he also served as vice president until 1972. in 1947, a personal exhibition with 50 works from the period after 1938 took place in lincoln, usa. in 1949 he received the city of vienna prize for graphics and applied arts. in 1951 he resigned as president of the new hagenbund due to internal disagreements. in 1952 he was a member of the professional association of austrian resistance fighters and victims of fascism. co-founder and temporarily vice-president of the professional association of austrian visual artists, member of the board of trustees of the documentation archive of the austrian resistance and president of the action against anti-semitism as well as president of the federation of modern visual artists in austria. in the 1950s he drew the illustrations for the book das weltbild der moderne by karl renner and worked on several ceramic mosaics for the municipality of vienna (including voltagasse 1210 vienna, märzstraße 1150 vienna, theresienbad 1120 vienna, simonygasse 1180 vienna). from the 1960s on, carry hauser regularly travels to croatia, israel and above all to africa. numerous sketches are created on these trips, in which he captures nature and the local people. at the same time he takes part in international exhibitions, in 1960 in the kunstverein braunschweig and in the galerie de bourgogne in paris, in 1964 a personal exhibition in jerusalem follows. one year later, in 1965, he received the golden medal of honor and in 1985 the ring of honor of the city of vienna. until the end of his life, it was above all the experiences of his travels to afrika that had the greatest impact on his artistic work. his love for africa began in 1967 with a cruise on a cargo steamer via gibraltar and the suez canal to south africa. several stays in east and west africa followed, e.g. in freetown in sierra leone, in mombasa in kenya, in cameroon, on zanzibar in tanzania, on djerba and in tunis. hauser finds something in africa that he probably misses in his homeland and describes it in the following words: \"...africa has a substance - the africans have a substance - that has grabbed me, so that everything i've written lately , what i painted has to do with africa and came out of this african experience, 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vienna. secretary general and vice president of the p.e.n. club, honorary president of the new hagenbund. stylistic development from classical, academic training through early expressionism to new objectivity. themes such as love, death, eros, narrative representations, religious themes. from the mid-1960s, trips to africa, increasingly african motifs. \n \n carry hauser was born as karl maria hauser on february 16, 1895 in vienna. his father is an official in the ministry of the imperial house and foreign affairs, his mother maria hauser, née linke, the daughter of a moravian landowner. carry hauser and his brother heinz, who is three years his senior, are initially taught at home by their mother, who is a teacher. hauser grew up in an art-interested environment of the viennese educated middle class, with frequent visits to the theater and exhibitions. from 1905 to 1910 he attended the schottengymnasium in vienna and then switched to the graphic teaching and research institute for two years. at the same time, he completed an evening course in ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek at the school of applied arts. 1912 carry hauser attended the school of applied arts for two years, first in general form theory with oskar strnad and in the second year in nature studies with adolf böhm. during this time he received basic artistic training in the general department under the direction of alfred roller, which was characterized by extensive practical workshop training using a wide variety of techniques. he also attends the evening nude class with oskar kokoschka, the class for nude studies with anton von kenner, ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek and writing and heraldry with rudolf von larisch. in november 1914 he left the school of arts and crafts early, after passing all the exams, and in the same month he volunteered in the army with the deutschmeister regiment as k. and k. deutschmeister. after training as an officer, he was transferred to the first infantry regiment in austria-silesia, where he did his military service in present-day poland, ukraine and the czech republic. towards the end of the war he stayed in chernivtsi and worked on pictures for a regiment exhibition. the experiences of the war, the contact to intellectual and pacifist circles and above all the death of his brother heinz shaped him and allowed him to emerge from the war as a pacifist. back in vienna after the end of the war, hauser established contacts with the art historian, art critic and collector arthur roessler and the playwright franz theodor csokor, for whom he designed stage sets and costumes. hauser is a founding and executive member (until 1922) of the artists' association die freie bewegungs (the free movement), which organizes exhibitions of international contemporary art. at the same time, he works as an artist for the wiener graphische werkstätte publishing house, which mainly publishes modern austrian literature. from the very beginning he devoted himself intensively to theater and literature in addition to the fine arts. in october 1919, carry hauser had his first personal exhibition in the house of the young artists. the modern art of the interwar period has fallen into oblivion and young artists orientate themselves towards international trends and the conservative taste in art of the national socialists is increasingly harder to shake off. hauser begins to campaign for the reconstruction of the modern art and cultural landscape of his homeland. he follows the events of the art club and is involved in the founding of the new hagenbund. he intensified his collaboration with theater and literary circles and from 1947 to 1973 he was a member of the austrian p.e.n. clubs, of which he became general secretary in 1952 and where he also served as vice president until 1972. in 1947, a personal exhibition with 50 works from the period after 1938 took place in lincoln, usa. in 1949 he received the city of vienna prize for graphics and applied arts. in 1951 he resigned as president of the new hagenbund due to internal disagreements. in 1952 he was a member of the professional association of austrian resistance fighters and victims of fascism. co-founder and temporarily vice-president of the professional association of austrian visual artists, member of the board of trustees of the documentation archive of the austrian resistance and president of the action against anti-semitism as well as president of the federation of modern visual artists in austria. in the 1950s he drew the illustrations for the book das weltbild der moderne by karl renner and worked on several ceramic mosaics for the municipality of vienna (including voltagasse 1210 vienna, märzstraße 1150 vienna, theresienbad 1120 vienna, simonygasse 1180 vienna). from the 1960s on, carry hauser regularly travels to croatia, israel and above all to africa. numerous sketches are created on these trips, in which he captures nature and the local people. at the same time he takes part in international exhibitions, in 1960 in the kunstverein braunschweig and in the galerie de bourgogne in paris, in 1964 a personal exhibition in jerusalem follows. one year later, in 1965, he received the golden medal of honor and in 1985 the ring of honor of the city of vienna. until the end of his life, it was above all the experiences of his travels to afrika that had the greatest impact on his artistic work. his love for africa began in 1967 with a cruise on a cargo steamer via gibraltar and the suez canal to south africa. several stays in east and west africa followed, e.g. in freetown in sierra leone, in mombasa in kenya, in cameroon, on zanzibar in tanzania, on djerba and in tunis. hauser finds something in africa that he probably misses in his homeland and describes it in the following words: \"...africa has a substance - the africans have a substance - that has grabbed me, so that everything i've written lately , what i painted has to do with africa and came 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(münnerstadt 1894 - 1966 stuttgart) \n still life with masks \n oil/wood, 92 x 122 cm \n monogrammed h.s. \n depicted in expressiver realismus in deutschland, vienna 2017, p. 5, n. 5 \n provenance: nagel auctions stuttgart, private property austria \n \n \n estimate \u20ac 10.000 - 15.000 \n \n german artist of the 20th century. studied at the munich academy with gabriel von hackl and angelo jank, and from 1918 with christian landenberger in stuttgart. in 1919, together with his fellow students oskar schlemmer, willi baumeister and albert mueller, founded the üecht group. in 1919 he exhibited in stuttgart, 1920 participation in the exhibition of the novembergruppe in berlin. jury member of the stuttgart secession, 1925 professor and 1932 to 1943 director at the stuttgart academy. 1929 founds group 29 together with adolf walschmidt, gottfried graf and albert mueller. strong influence of cubism, round organic, also human forms in interplay with geometric forms. early works such as the still life with masks, potted plant, pears, books and a jug are only a few survived. \n \n spiegel studied at the munich academy with gabriel von hackl and angelo jank. after 1918 he continued his artistic training with christian landenberger in stuttgart. among his fellow students were oskar schlemmer, willi baumeister and albert mueller. the stuttgart \"üecht group\" emerged from their intensive exchange in 1919. in 1919 he took part in the exhibition of the german association of artists in stuttgart, and in 1920 he took part in the show of the berlin \"november group\" in rome. as a representative of the stuttgart local group, he exhibited in 1921, 1922 and 1923 at the great berlin art exhibition. from 1924 to 1928 spiegel was a jury member of the \"stuttgart secession\". in 1925 he received a professorship at the stuttgart academy, of which he was director from 1932 to 1943. in 1929 the artist received the württemberg state prize and in the same year he founded the \"group 29\" stuttgart together with adolf walschmidt, gottfried graf and albert mueller. spiegel's early work was almost completely destroyed by air raids during world war ii. hans spiegel's \"still life with masks\", fueled by expressionism, points to a special direction of modernity. it is one of the allegorically exaggerated mask still lifes that we know from artists as diverse as james ensor, emil nolde, karl hofer, anton kolig or sergius pauser and means more than the usual realistic studio study with the arrangement mostly made of flowers and fruits. the piled up clownesque masks with long noses, together with the fruit plate placed at a steep angle on the table, the red jug, goblet, flower stick and books, form the props, so to speak, for a theatrical performance situated on the border between reality and hallucination. it's about the game of hide-and-seek behind the masks, about the possibilities of stepping out of normal life for a while and trying to be someone else. the curtain on the 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in the champagne bar, around 1923 \n oil/canvas, 75 x 64 cm \n monogrammed h.s. \n exhibited at castle halbthurn \"bei geniessern zu gast\", burgenland 2021 and depicted in expressiver realismus in deutschland, vienna 2017, p 4, n. 2 \n provenance: griesebach auctions berlin, fine arts widder \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 12.000 - 18.000 \n \n german artist of the 20th century. studied at the munich academy with gabriel von hackl and angelo jank, and from 1918 with christian landenberger in stuttgart. in 1919, together with his fellow students oskar schlemmer, willi baumeister and albert mueller, founded the üecht group. in 1919 he exhibited in stuttgart, 1920 participation in the exhibition of the novembergruppe in berlin. jury member of the stuttgart secession, 1925 professor and 1932 to 1943 director at the stuttgart academy. 1929 founded group 29 together with adolf walschmidt, gottfried graf and albert mueller. strong influence of cubism, round organic, also human forms in interplay with geometric forms. the mysterious, almost androgynous figure in the champagne bar reveals a subtle color chord of red and blue tones and a charming play with the angular shapes of the fan and the round shapes of the glasses, each of which is repeated in the soft, round clothing of the lady and the radiant background. \n \n spiegel studied at the munich academy with gabriel von hackl and angelo jank. after 1918 he continued his artistic training with christian landenberger in stuttgart. among his fellow students were oskar schlemmer, willi baumeister and albert mueller. the stuttgart \"üecht group\" emerged from their intensive exchange in 1919. in 1919 he took part in the exhibition of the german association of artists in stuttgart, and in 1920 he took part in the show of the berlin \"november group\" in rome. as a representative of the stuttgart local group, he exhibited in 1921, 1922 and 1923 at the great berlin art exhibition. from 1924 to 1928 spiegel was a jury member of the \"stuttgart secession\". in 1925 he received a professorship at the stuttgart academy, of which he was director from 1932 to 1943. in 1929 the artist received the württemberg state prize and in the same year he founded the \"group 29\" stuttgart together with adolf walschmidt, gottfried graf and albert mueller. spiegel's early work was almost completely destroyed by air raids during world war ii. hans spiegel studied at the munich art academy with the animal painter angelo jank and the piloty student gabriel von hackl, with whom painters as diverse as albin egger-lienz, max slevogt, wilhelm thöny and franz marc also received their artistic training. in 1918 spiegel moved to the stuttgart art academy to work with christian landenberger, whose artistic intentions must have appealed to spiegel much more, as the painting in the champagne bar from around 1923 suggests. like landenberger, spiegel primarily relies on a realistically painted genre motif that we know only too well from the motif repertoire of the 1920s. the woman and seductress having fun alone in a bar or some other establishment on the fringes of the bourgeois. in spiegel's painting she is represented by a woman dressed in bright red against a blue background. she partially hides her face behind a fan, but her eyes are turned curiously to the viewer. she wears the striking short haircut typical of the so-called golden twenties, with which us actress colleen moore achieved her breakthrough in the 1923 film \"flaming youth\". josephine baker, on the other hand, popularized the lard curls that were styled into the face and glued to the head in a glossy finish. like landenberger, spiegel does not build his picture on parts of reality, but exclusively on the colourfulness. like his teacher, spiegel remained within the framework of what characterized 19th-century painting, despite cubist tendencies towards abstraction. incidentally, for this portrait, spiegel uses a portrait head painted in 1918, which reveals the confrontation with cézanne and cubism even more vividly. again and again one discovers areas of color in his composition, which at first seems so realistic, which have little to do with what is depicted and only serve the color effect and thus also emphasize its \"modernity\"."},"estimateMax":18000,"lotNumber":"114","title":{"de":"hans spiegel* (münnerstadt 1894 - 1966 stuttgart)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17313/view","tags":["daFineart_PaintingsandMixedMedia","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":10000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-10T03:24:22.386Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac12,000 - \u20ac18,000","currency":"EUR","id":17313,"estimateMin":12000},{"startPrice":100,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17314/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17314/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"karl friedrich bell* (vienna 1877 - 1958 vienna)"},"soldDate":"2022-05-19","available":false,"description":{"de":"karl friedrich bell* \n (vienna 1877 - 1958 vienna) \n fortune teller \n woodcut/paper 34,5 x 28 cm \n signed k. f. bell \n provenance: private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 100 - 200 \n \n austrian artist of the 20th century. studied at the school of arts and crafts from 1897 and at the academy of fine arts from 1898 to 1902 and 1904. member of the vienna secession and the künstlerhaus. worked as a freelance artist and illustrator. from 1910 also published verse epics, which he illustrated himself, such as die sieben lasterteufel, heiland und welt, höllenreigen, fluch und erlösung. married to the music teacher and pianist else jagla. created mainly lithographs, woodcuts and etchings, as well as bookplates and viennese representations such as the colorful hustle and bustle in the vienna prater. \n \n the viennese painter, graphic artist and writer karl friedrich bell, married to the music teacher and pianist else jagla, worked after studying at the graphic teaching and research institute, the academy of fine arts and the school of applied arts as a freelance illustrator, then became a civil servant and finally turned to an artistic career in 1913. from 1913 to 1938 he was a member of the secession, then of the künstlerhaus; his works are represented in viennese collections. from 1910 on, he also published verses, which he illustrated himself (among others \"the seven wicked devils\", 1910; \"heiland und welt\", 1916; \"reigen in hell\", 1921; \"curse and redemption\", 1934). bell created lithographs, woodcuts and etchings; exlibris drafts and viennese depictions (e.g. street in alt-erdberg) deserve special mention. on this woodcut of the horoscope maker, things are not as monstrous as on a number of other graphics by the artist. depicted is a fairground or perhaps just an urban scene, which, judging by the costumes, can probably be placed in the 19th century and is densely populated by people looking for pleasure or truth. the horoscope maker has to work hard to get the audience's attention, including that of the viewer. a towering top hat serves as an essential tool for the short man, with which he is just as tall as the surrounding people without top hats. at the same time, the hat gives the horoscope writer the necessary degree of seriousness. however, the man seems to be quite successful. apparently, the general uncertainty is great enough to bring the charlatan plenty of paying customers. as is usual with bell, all those portrayed have in common the characteristic of looking very square."},"estimateMax":200,"lotNumber":"115","title":{"de":"karl friedrich bell* (vienna 1877 - 1958 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hans bisanz, vienna 1932, p. 73 \n provenance: dorotheum vienna, fine arts widder \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 400 - 800 \n \n austrian painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. representative of the new objectivity. studied from 1925 to 1933 at the academy of fine arts with hans tichy, wilhelm dachauer, josef jungwirth and from 1929 with rudolf bacher. taught mathematics and descriptive geometry in vienna and upper austria from 1930. member of the vienna secession, the künstlerhaus, the upper austrian art association and the innviertler künstlergilde. from 1936 resident in ried im innkreis, together with max bauböck, walther gabler and engelbert daringer from 1945 involved in the innviertler künstlergilde. he deals with socially critical themes, especially graphics and drawings about life in the big city, the everyday life of ordinary people, the misery of the poor, the contrast between rich and poor, the shady protagonists of viennese nightlife and the amusements in the prater and the circus. \n \n wilhelm traeger studied from 1925 to 1933 at the academy of fine arts with hans tichy, wilhelm dachauer, josef jungwirth and from 1929 in the master class of rudolf bacher. at the same time he passed the teacher training examination for mathematics and descriptive geometry and taught from 1930 in vienna and later in upper austria. traeger was a member of the vienna secession, the künstlerhaus, the upper austrian art association and the innviertel artists' guild. from 1936, traeger lived in ried im innkreis, where after 1945, together with max bauböck, walther gabler and engelbert daringer, he tried to reorganize the innviertler artists' guild. between 1970 and 1974 he was president of the upper austrian art association. after the first world war, traeger spent several summer months in a danish foster family, who also financed his education. familiar with famine and social ills from this period, he repeatedly devoted his work to socially critical 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widder \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 400 - 800 \n \n austrian painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. representative of the new objectivity. studied from 1925 to 1933 at the academy of fine arts with hans tichy, wilhelm dachauer, josef jungwirth and from 1929 with rudolf bacher. taught mathematics and descriptive geometry in vienna and upper austria from 1930. member of the vienna secession, the künstlerhaus, the upper austrian art association and the innviertler künstlergilde. from 1936 resident in ried im innkreis, together with max bauböck, walther gabler and engelbert daringer from 1945 involved in the innviertler künstlergilde. he deals with socially critical themes, especially graphics and drawings about life in the big city, the everyday life of ordinary people, the misery of the poor, the contrast between rich and poor, the shady protagonists of viennese nightlife and the amusements in the prater and the circus. \n \n wilhelm traeger studied from 1925 to 1933 at the academy of fine arts with hans tichy, wilhelm dachauer, josef jungwirth and from 1929 in the master class of rudolf bacher. at the same time he passed the teacher training examination for mathematics and descriptive geometry and taught from 1930 in vienna and later in upper austria. traeger was a member of the vienna secession, the künstlerhaus, the upper austrian art association and the innviertel artists' guild. from 1936, traeger lived in ried im innkreis, where after 1945, together with max bauböck, walther gabler and engelbert daringer, he tried to reorganize the innviertler artists' guild. between 1970 and 1974 he was president of the upper austrian art association. after the first world war, traeger spent several summer months in a danish foster family, who also financed his education. familiar with famine and social ills from this period, he repeatedly devoted his work to socially critical themes."},"estimateMax":800,"lotNumber":"117","title":{"de":"wilhelm traeger* (vienna 1907 - 1980 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century. main representative of verism and new objectivity. counts among the so-called exile art. studied at the art academy in dresden from 1909 to 1911, and at the school of applied arts with emil orlik in berlin from 1912 to 1916. worked in colarossi's studio in paris from 1913. volunteered for world war i in 1914, incapacitated for war after illness. became an opponent of the war, like his friend john heartfield. 1916 founds the first dada magazine neue jugend with franz jung and wieland herzfelde. 1918 first dadaist lecture evening at the berlin secession together with raoul hausmann and richard huelsenbeck. 1919 and 1920 founds several art magazines, including die pleite, der blutige ernst. satirical caricatures by grosz lead to protests and convictions for pornography and blasphemy. 1933 emigration to the usa, teaching at the art students league of new york. in 1937 his works were classified by the nazis as degenerate art. his students in the usa included jackson pollock and james rosenquist. created social and socio-critical works, scenes from the underworld and the red light milieu, nudes, caricatures and illustrations. stylistically to be assigned to verism and new objectivity, comparable to otto dix, christian schad, rudolf schlichter, karl hubbuch, georg scholz and jeanne mammen. \n \n grosz studied from 1909 to 1911 at the art academy in dresden and from 1912 to 1916 at the kunstgewerbeschule in berlin, where he was taught by emil orlik. from 1913 he also worked in the colarossi studio in paris. grosz volunteered for world war i in 1914, but became unfit for war after falling ill. in 1916 he founded the first dada magazine \"neue jugend\" together with wieland herzfelde and franz jung. in 1917 the \"kleine grosz-mappe\" was published, which is regarded as an early example of dadaism in berlin. in 1918, together with raoul hausmann and richard huelsenbeck, grosz took part in the first dadaist evening of lectures at the berlin secession. between 1919 and 1920 he founded other art magazines such as \"die pleite\" and \"der blutige ernst\". his satirical caricatures led to a number of lawsuits against grosz, and the content of his graphic series brought him convictions for pornography and blasphemy. in 1922 he stayed in russia for six months. in the 1920s he took part in several exhibitions, such as the \"neue sachlichkeit\" exhibition in mannheim in 1925 and the \"novembergruppe\" exhibition in 1929. he met the boxer max schmeling, who was often available to him as a model. in the early 1930s, grosz traveled to new york as a guest lecturer. after the nazis took power, he moved to the united states. in germany his works were defamed as degenerate and 285 of his works were confiscated from german museums. from 1940 he worked as a professor at columbia university in new york and founded his own private art school in long island in 1953. in 1959 grosz returned to berlin, where he died that same 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gallery fred jahn munich, since 2007 european private collection \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 3.000 - 4.000 \n \n german-american painter, graphic artist and caricaturist of the 20th century. main representative of verism and new objectivity. counts among the so-called exile art. studied at the art academy in dresden from 1909 to 1911, and at the school of applied arts with emil orlik in berlin from 1912 to 1916. worked in colarossi's studio in paris from 1913. volunteered for world war i in 1914, incapacitated for war after illness. became an opponent of the war, like his friend john heartfield. 1916 founds the first dada magazine neue jugend with franz jung and wieland herzfelde. 1918 first dadaist lecture evening at the berlin secession together with raoul hausmann and richard huelsenbeck. 1919 and 1920 founds several art magazines, including die pleite, der blutige ernst. satirical caricatures by grosz lead to protests and convictions for pornography and blasphemy. 1933 emigration to the usa, teaching at the art students league of new york. in 1937 his works were classified by the nazis as degenerate art. his students in the usa included jackson pollock and james rosenquist. created social and socio-critical works, scenes from the underworld and the red light milieu, nudes, caricatures and illustrations. stylistically to be assigned to verism and new objectivity, comparable to otto dix, christian schad, rudolf schlichter, karl hubbuch, georg scholz and jeanne mammen. \n \n grosz studied from 1909 to 1911 at the art academy in dresden and from 1912 to 1916 at the kunstgewerbeschule in berlin, where he was taught by emil orlik. from 1913 he also worked in the colarossi studio in paris. grosz volunteered for world war i in 1914, but became unfit for war after falling ill. in 1916 he founded the first dada magazine \"neue jugend\" together with wieland herzfelde and franz jung. in 1917 the \"kleine grosz-mappe\" was published, which is regarded as an early example of 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1920 \n indian ink/paper, 38 x 27 cm \n signed grosz \n verso titled begegnung, numbered 282, a84 \n certificate of authenticity by ralph jentsch is included \n provenance: finarte milano, european private collection \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 15.000 - 25.000 \n \n german-american painter, graphic artist and caricaturist of the 20th century. main representative of verism and new objectivity. counts among the so-called exile art. studied at the art academy in dresden from 1909 to 1911, and at the school of applied arts with emil orlik in berlin from 1912 to 1916. worked in colarossi's studio in paris from 1913. volunteered for world war i in 1914, incapacitated for war after illness. became an opponent of the war, like his friend john heartfield. 1916 founds the first dada magazine neue jugend with franz jung and wieland herzfelde. 1918 first dadaist lecture evening at the berlin secession together with raoul hausmann and richard huelsenbeck. 1919 and 1920 founds several art magazines, including die pleite, der blutige ernst. satirical caricatures by grosz lead to protests and convictions for pornography and blasphemy. 1933 emigration to the usa, teaching at the art students league of new york. in 1937 his works were classified by the nazis as degenerate art. his students in the usa included jackson pollock and james rosenquist. created social and socio-critical works, scenes from the underworld and the red light milieu, nudes, caricatures and illustrations. stylistically to be assigned to verism and new objectivity, comparable to otto dix, christian schad, rudolf schlichter, karl hubbuch, georg scholz and jeanne mammen. \n \n grosz studied from 1909 to 1911 at the art academy in dresden and from 1912 to 1916 at the kunstgewerbeschule in berlin, where he was taught by emil orlik. from 1913 he also worked in the colarossi studio in paris. grosz volunteered for world war i in 1914, but became unfit for war after falling ill. in 1916 he founded the first dada magazine 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germany his works were defamed as degenerate and 285 of his works were confiscated from german museums. from 1940 he worked as a professor at columbia university in new york and founded his own private art school in long island in 1953. in 1959 grosz returned to berlin, where he died that same year."},"estimateMax":25000,"lotNumber":"123","title":{"de":"george grosz* (berlin 1893 - 1959 berlin)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17322/view","tags":["daFineart_DrawingsandPastels","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":12000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:28.402Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac15,000 - 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editor of art encyclopedias vollmer and thieme-becker. studied at the hochschule der bildenden künste in charlottenburg under the landscape painter paul vorgang. 1904 to 1908 studied at the weimar school of art with ludwig von hofmann, theodor hagen, sascha schneider and hans olde. acquaintance with willy preetorius, otto illies, rudolf siegmund and ivo hauptmann. lived and worked in rehlingen in the lüneburg heath. created mainly landscapes at different seasons and times of day, people at work. early influences of impressionism and pointilism, in the 1920s towards expressionism and painting out of color. \n \n erwin vollmer comes from a northern german family of artists. his grandfather was the hamburg landscape and marine painter adolph friedrich vollmer, his father johannes vollmer was an architect and his brother the art historian and editor of the encyclopedias vollmer and thieme-becker. vollmer studied at the college of fine arts in charlottenburg with the berlin landscape painter paul prozess. from 1904 to 1908 he studied at the art school in weimar with ludwig von hofmann, theodor hagen, sascha schneider and hans olde. vollmer found a landscape related to his nature in the barren lüneburg heath, where he settled in the village of rehlingen. vollmer mainly painted landscapes, especially lonely heath landscapes in late autumn and winter, but also people at work. a theme that kept occupying his attention was the human form as the embodiment of spiritual feeling. after attempts at pointillism and impressionism, vollmer found his own expressionistic style in the 1920s, which always started with colour. a basic religious mood is not just limited to these pictures, which are directly related to the topic: a \u201cdreamlike sense of infinity\u201d runs through vollmer's entire figurative and landscape work."},"estimateMax":3000,"lotNumber":"124","title":{"de":"erwin vollmer* (berlin 1884 - 1973 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\"ach wie schön und wie viel!\" \n provenance: auction house arnold frankfurt, european private collection \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 2.000 - 3.000 \n \n swiss painter and sculptor of the 20th century. worked in basel in a workshop in the empty barracks of the gotthelfschulhaus, where karl theophil dick, numa donzé, otto roos, carl pflüger and jean jacques lüscher also had their studios. published graphic portfolios together with paul basilius barth, numa donzé, paul hosch, jean jacques lüscher, haiggi müller, otto roos and ernesto schiess. created mainly portraits, self-portraits, landscapes and still lifes. the view over lake geneva was shown in 1918 at the sensational exhibition the new life at the kunsthalle in basel, the first time cubist tendencies were exhibited in swiss art. influence of postimpressiosnism, paul cezanne, paul gauguin and vincent van gogh."},"estimateMax":3000,"lotNumber":"125","title":{"de":"eduard niethammer (basel 1884 - 1967 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private collection southern germany, ketterer auctions munich 2008, european private collection \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 5.000 - 10.000 \n \n italian painter of the 20th century. studied in rovereto and in venice with guglielmo ciardi and emanuele brugnoli. contact with artists of the ca' pesaro group, including umberto moggioli, lucilo grassi, tullio garbari, gino rossi, arturo martini, ugo valeri. lived in italy in the 1910s, involvement with futurism, including giacomo balla, umberto boccioni, primo conti, achille lega, emilio notte, ottone rosai, emilio settimelli, ardengo soffici and lucio venna. in the 1920s, interest in abstract movements and dadaism. in berlin contact with max liebermann, max beckmann, alexander archipenko. in hanover acquaintance with justus bier, kurt schwitters and friedrick vordemberge-gildewart. in the 1930s participation in the 19th venice biennale and the exhibition aeropittura by filippo tommaso marinetti in berlin. in addition to futuristic works, also works such as the net mending women with large, almost monochrome color surfaces. simplicity, tranquility and the rural character are reminiscent of mexican artists such as diego rivera."},"estimateMax":10000,"lotNumber":"126","title":{"de":"roberto iras baldessari* (innsbruck 1894 - 1965 rome)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17325/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":5000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":13000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:28.421Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac5,000 - \u20ac10,000","currency":"EUR","id":17325,"estimateMin":5000},{"startPrice":12000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17326/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17326/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17326/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"josef eberz 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oskar schlemmer, august ludwig schmidt, hermann stenner and alfred wickenburg. married the artist gertrud alber in wiesbaden in 1917. from 1918 in munich, represented by the art dealer hanns goltz. member of the new munich secession, 1919 of the association das junge rheinland, 1919 also of the darmstadt secession and the novembergruppe. in the 1920s travels to italy, dalmatia and paris. his works were classified as degenerate art by the nazis. stylistically to be assigned to expressionism, especially influences of cubism, futurism and later pittura metafisica. stylistic proximity to the german expressionists conrad felixmüller, alexander kanoldt or emil nolde. created expressionist and color-intensive landscapes and figure paintings, strong interest in religious themes. \n \n born in limburg an der lahn in 1880 as the son of a postal clerk, the painter and graphic artist josef eberz studied around the turn of the century in munich, first under professors peter halm and franz von 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coast near ragusa, 1923 \n oil/cardboard, 34 x 42,5 cm \n signed j eberz and dated 23 \n verso inscribed j. eberz küste von ragusa 1923, exhibition label gallery new art hans goltz munich, nr p.459 \n exhibited 1923 at the gallery new art hans goltz in munich \n depicted in expressiver realismus in deutschland, vienna 2017, p. 12, nr. 17 \n provenance: auction house neumeister munich 2010, fine arts widder vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 4.000 - 8.000 \n \n german painter, graphic artist and illustrator of the 20th century. studied at the academy in munich from 1901 to 1903 under franz von stuck and hugo von habermann. then in karlsruhe and from 1907 to 1912 master student of the color theorist adolf hölzel in stuttgart. member of the hölzel circle, along with gertrud alber, willi baumeister, paul bollmann, hans brühlmann, heinrich eberhard, maria hiller-foell, ida kerkovius, otto meyer-amden, alfred heinrich pellegrini, oskar schlemmer, august ludwig schmidt, hermann stenner and alfred wickenburg. married the artist gertrud alber in wiesbaden in 1917. from 1918 in munich, represented by the art dealer hanns goltz. member of the new munich secession, 1919 of the association das junge rheinland, 1919 also of the darmstadt secession and the novembergruppe. in the 1920s travels to italy, dalmatia and paris. his works were classified as degenerate art by the nazis. stylistically to be assigned to expressionism, especially influences of cubism, futurism and later pittura metafisica. stylistic proximity to the german expressionists conrad felixmüller, alexander kanoldt or emil nolde. created expressionist and color-intensive landscapes and figure paintings, strong interest in religious themes. \n \n born in limburg an der lahn in 1880 as the son of a postal clerk, the painter and graphic artist josef eberz studied around the turn of the century in munich, first under professors peter halm and franz von stuck, and then in düsseldorf and karlsruhe (both in 1904). he was first challenged at the stuttgart academy, where eberz was enrolled from 1905 as a student of christian landenberger, a positive plein-air painter. for eberz, this professor was probably the real reason for choosing stuttgart as a training center. but it was only in adolf hölzel, the painter of clay nature and genre paintings, that eberz finally found the artistic figure that formed him. hölzel, like eberz, had come to the stuttgart art academy in 1905 and quickly made a name for himself as a painter who was active in art theory and had his own color theory and color circle. as early as 1907 we find eberz as a master student in adolf hölzel's class, in which he studied until 1912. from his teacher, to whom eberz felt a strong obligation in terms of composition and color in his early pictures, this master student should above all acquire the ability to construct the picture more constructively and to handle color confidently, detached from the real object. how much josef eberz\u2019s painting style changed under the influence of his trips to the south at the beginning shows the coastal landscape near ragusa, dated 1923. his travels took him to italy in 1920 and to dalmatia and paris in the following years. under his brush, ragusa becomes a built landscape with a quay wall and a stylized city silhouette. with great passion for color, he also designed the surface of the sea and the interaction with the slightly cloudy sky."},"estimateMax":8000,"lotNumber":"128","title":{"de":"josef eberz (limburg an der lahn 1880 - 1941 munich)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17327/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":4000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":4500,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:28.432Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac4,000 - 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then in karlsruhe and from 1907 to 1912 master student of the color theorist adolf hölzel in stuttgart. member of the hölzel circle, along with gertrud alber, willi baumeister, paul bollmann, hans brühlmann, heinrich eberhard, maria hiller-foell, ida kerkovius, otto meyer-amden, alfred heinrich pellegrini, oskar schlemmer, august ludwig schmidt, hermann stenner and alfred wickenburg. married the artist gertrud alber in wiesbaden in 1917. from 1918 in munich, represented by the art dealer hanns goltz. member of the new munich secession, 1919 of the association das junge rheinland, 1919 also of the darmstadt secession and the novembergruppe. in the 1920s travels to italy, dalmatia and paris. his works were classified as degenerate art by the nazis. stylistically to be assigned to expressionism, especially influences of cubism, futurism and later pittura metafisica. stylistic proximity to the german expressionists conrad felixmüller, alexander kanoldt or emil nolde. created expressionist and color-intensive landscapes and figure paintings, strong interest in religious themes. \n \n born in limburg an der lahn in 1880 as the son of a postal clerk, the painter and graphic artist josef eberz studied around the turn of the century in munich, first under professors peter halm and franz von stuck, and then in düsseldorf and karlsruhe (both in 1904). he was first challenged at the stuttgart academy, where eberz was enrolled from 1905 as a student of christian landenberger, a positive plein-air painter. for eberz, this professor was probably the real reason for choosing stuttgart as a training center. but it was only in adolf hölzel, the painter of clay nature and genre paintings, that eberz finally found the artistic figure that formed him. hölzel, like eberz, had come to the stuttgart art academy in 1905 and quickly made a name for himself as a painter who was active in art theory and had his own color theory and color circle. as early as 1907 we find eberz as a master student in adolf hölzel's class, in which he studied until 1912. from his teacher, to whom eberz felt a strong obligation in terms of composition and color in his early pictures, this master student should above all acquire the ability to construct the picture more constructively and to handle color confidently, detached from the real object. the painting \"the exotic dance\" from 1917 reflects this intensive examination of his teacher hölzel. the two dancers with their colorful shadows and their expressively elongated limbs, the male figure with a hat and red beard fitted into the upper left corner of the picture, the dynamization of the forms and the embedding in a cubist-abstract natural landscape are still in the tradition of the hölzel circle. in this phase of his work he also met the art collector heinrich kirchhoff for the first time, who, along with the art dealer hans goltz, was to become one of josef eberz's great patrons and in whose garden with its exotic character he also painted from 1917. walter müller-wulckow , who wrote about eberz in his 1917 contribution to the kirchhoff collection, also mentions a painting that shows two dancers, as in the present example: \u201cj. eberz, on the other hand, masters the uniform stylization with no less great use of color (...). a lyrical element, however, which in eberz's paintings of large format comes to the fore too much, temporarily prevents this artist from creating life-size figures satisfactorily, such as e.g. b. the two \"dancers\". from the illustrations of small pictures, on the other hand, one thinks one can infer monumental format, which thus still reveals the power of expansion and at least inner size.\u201d"},"estimateMax":25000,"lotNumber":"129","title":{"de":"josef eberz (limburg an der lahn 1880 - 1941 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p. 14, n. 29 \n provenance: private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 300 - 500 \n \n austrian painter and sculptor of the 20th century. main representative of expressionism. representative of exile art. came from a jewish family. studied from 1913 to 1914 at the vienna school of applied arts with anton von kenner and oskar strnad. 1920 to 1922 in munich and until 1924 in berlin. contract with paul cassirer, acquaintance with oskar kokoschka, paul klee and max beckmann. in vienna patrons hans tietze and erika tietze-conrat. from 1925 to 1928 member of the artists' association hagenbund. from 1932 with his wife part of the zinkenbach painters' colony on lake wolfgang, as were ferdinand kitt, josed dobrowsky, ernst huber, ludwig heinrich jungnickel, oskar laske, georg merkel, louise merkel-romee, lisel salzer and others. 1937 emigration to england. 1947 to 1949 teaches in the usa. married to the artist bettina ehrlich-bauer. created portraits, landscapes, bronze sculptures and 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at state hermitage museum st. petersburg: gegenlicht 2013-2014 and depicted in exhibition catalogue p.58, no.18 \n the work is registered in the estate archive \n provenance: bassenge berlin 1982, galerie nierendorf berlin, karl and faber munich 1989, bassenge berlin 2008, private collection \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 15.000 - 30.000 \n \n german painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. main representative of expressionism, shaped the avant-garde of the 1910s. first studied architecture in dresden, as a painter self-taught. 1905 founded the artist group die brücke together with ernst ludwig kirchner, karl schmidt-rottluff and fritz bleyl. other members max pechstein, emil nolde and later otto mueller. 1907 to 1910 with karl schmidt-rottluff in dangast on the north sea, in dresden studio community with ernst ludwig kirchner. 1911 in prerow on the baltic sea, at the same time as marianne von werefkin and alexej jawlensky from the neue künstlervereinigung munich. then to berlin, friendships with lyonel feininger, franz marc and august macke. 1913 summer at the flensburg fjord, 1914 with heinrich nauen in dilborn on the lower rhine. during world war i as a medic in flanders, especially in ostend, meeting with max beckmann and james ensor. in the 1920s in the circle of the poets ernst morwitz and stefan george. in 1937 his works were classified by the nazis as degenerate art, many works were destroyed. early influences of art nouveau and post-impressionism, including vincent van gogh, paul gauguin, paul cezanne and edvard munch. development in the direction of a color-intensive expressionism. created mainly portraits, nudes and genre scenes, also landscapes and cityscapes. the main theme was the human being, as in the portrait of the expressionist literary figure wilhem simon guttmann from the red sofa. kirchner and schmidt-rottluff also portrayed guttmann. \n \n heckel painted the portrait of william simon guttmann when the latter moved to berlin. guttmann was an austrian writer and poet and had just launched the literature magazine \"neue weltbühne\" (\"new world stage\") at that time. guttmann's friends were painters like heckel, ernst ludwig kirchner and karl schmidt-rottluff, that also painted portraits of him (see, for example kirchner woodcut dube 193 and schmidt-rottluff oil painting from 1913, grohmann 1956, p. 257). guttmann developed gradually from literature, through the politics of the german revolutionary period of 1918/19, to his influential career in photography in berlin and, eventually, in london."},"estimateMax":30000,"lotNumber":"137","title":{"de":"erich heckel* (döbeln 1883 - 1970 radolfzell)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17336/view","tags":["daFineart_Watercolors","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":12000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":16000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-10T03:24:23.234Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac15,000 - 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karlsruhe with wilhelm trübner and hans thoma. through friendship with julius kaspar contacts to the underworld. 1919 first exhibition in karlsruhe with wladimir von zabotin. 1919 co-founder of the rih group, together with wladimir von zabotin, georg scholz, oskar fischer, julius kaspar, egon itta, eugen segewitz and walter becker. was close to dadaism, cubism and developed in the direction of new objectivity. participated in the first international dada fair in 1920, as did george grosz, wieland herzfelde, john heartfield. his circle of friends included bertolt brecht, fritz sternberg, alfred döblin, george grosz and carl zuckmayer. in 1921 also a member of the novembergruppe, as were otto dix, george grosz, raoul hausmann, john heartfield, hannah höch, and georg scholz, among others. in 1924 co-founder of the communist artists' association rote gruppe. in 1937 his art was classified as degenerate art by the nazis. in 1942, many of his works were lost in bombing raids. after the war, co-founder of the neue gruppe in munich, with karl schmidt-rottluff, karl hofer, charles crodel, willi baumeister, erich heckel, oskar kokoschka, ernst wilhelm nay or max pechstein. created impressive portraits, depictions from the underworld, the red light milieu and street scenes. interest in the eccentric, fetishism and masochism and karl may. neo-objective works of the 1920s comparable to george grosz, otto dix, karl hubbuch and christian schad."},"estimateMax":8000,"lotNumber":"138","title":{"de":"rudolf schlichter* (calw 1890 - 1955 munich)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17337/view","tags":["daFineart_Watercolors","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":4000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":4400,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-10T03:24:23.236Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac5,000 - 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lived with his jewish wife in prague and brno during world war ii. 1944 internment in the concentration camp gräditz, 1945 liberation by soviet troops. created mainly woodcuts, watercolors, cityscapes, socially critical works and murals, but also mosaics and graffiti for residential buildings. early interest in works by egon schiele, development between expressionism and new objectivity. in the 1920s and 1930s woodcuts in the style of new objectivity, including erotic motifs. among them also explicit depictions of lovemaking and physical lust and passion. \n \n the hagenbund artist otto rudolf schatz was a sought-after graphic artist and illustrator in the 1920s and 1930s. committed primarily to expressionism in his early works, schatz turned to neue sachlichkeit (new objectivity) in the mid-1920s. in addition to depictions of workers and cityscapes, nudes and erotica play a role in his oeuvre. schatz received his training at the vienna school of applied arts under kenner and strnad. in the 1920s and 1930s he illustrated and executed various books for socialist publishers. from 1925 schatz was a member of the association of austrian artists, which also organized the art show, from 1928 to 1938 of the hagenbund and from 1946 also of the vienna secession. in 1938 he emigrated to the czech republic and lived with his jewish wife in prague and brno in constant fear of reprisals. in 1944 the couple was interned, but later liberated by the russians. in 1945 schatz returned to vienna, where he received special support from city councilor for culture viktor matejka. before and after the war, schatz undertook numerous journeys, which took him to italy, france, england, switzerland, the balkans, asia and the usa. in addition to oil painting, schatz often uses the woodcut technique. he repeatedly deals with the world of work, industry, political developments and democratic ideas and creates a whole series of socio-critical illustrations. at the same time, there are also erotic scenes, some of which border on pornography, with which schatz \u2013 especially during the occupation period \u2013 can earn a living and save themselves financially through hard times. the series of erotic images stands out because of its high quality. in his depictions, schatz presents the women with the bobbed hair that was so typical of the time. in the individual sheets they find themselves in a sexual moment with one another or with a male counterpart. the scenes vary in their directness and clarity, ranging from touching and caressing to penetration and fellatio. the expression of the individual depictions also varies, there are gentle but also aggressive moments. sexuality, lust, power, being at the mercy of others and surrendering - these are the basic motifs of these depictions. the limited range of colors resulting from the technique additionally accentuates the opposite of the sexes. the supposedly innocent woman in white faces the black 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\n estimate °\u20ac 400 - 800 \n \n austrian painter and graphic artist of the 20th century, especially of the interwar period. studied at the kunstgewerbeschule under anton von kenner, franz cizek and oskar strnad. initially worked primarily as a graphic artist and illustrator for arthur roessler and josef luitpold stern. from 1928 to 1938 member of the hagenbund, from 1946 member of the vienna secession. lived with his jewish wife in prague and brno during world war ii. 1944 internment in the concentration camp gräditz, 1945 liberation by soviet troops. created mainly woodcuts, watercolors, cityscapes, socially critical works and murals, but also mosaics and graffiti for residential buildings. early interest in works by egon schiele, development between expressionism and new objectivity. in the 1920s and 1930s woodcuts in the style of new objectivity, including erotic motifs. among them also explicit depictions of lovemaking and physical lust and passion. \n \n the hagenbund artist otto rudolf schatz was a sought-after graphic artist and illustrator in the 1920s and 1930s. committed primarily to expressionism in his early works, schatz turned to neue sachlichkeit (new objectivity) in the mid-1920s. in addition to depictions of workers and cityscapes, nudes and erotica play a role in his oeuvre. schatz received his training at the vienna school of applied arts under kenner and strnad. in the 1920s and 1930s he illustrated and executed various books for socialist publishers. from 1925 schatz was a member of the association of austrian artists, which also organized the art show, from 1928 to 1938 of the hagenbund and from 1946 also of the vienna secession. in 1938 he emigrated to the czech republic and lived with his jewish wife in prague and brno in constant fear of reprisals. in 1944 the couple was interned, but later liberated by the russians. in 1945 schatz returned to vienna, where he received special support from city councilor for culture viktor matejka. before and after the war, schatz undertook numerous journeys, which took him to italy, france, england, switzerland, the balkans, asia and the usa. in addition to oil painting, schatz often uses the woodcut technique. he repeatedly deals with the world of work, industry, political developments and democratic ideas and creates a whole series of socio-critical illustrations. at the same time, there are also erotic scenes, some of which border on pornography, with which schatz \u2013 especially during the occupation period \u2013 can earn a living and save themselves financially through hard times. the series of erotic images stands out because of its high quality. in his depictions, schatz presents the women with the bobbed hair that was so typical of the time. in the individual sheets they find themselves in a sexual moment with one another or with a male counterpart. the scenes vary in their directness and clarity, ranging from touching and caressing to penetration and fellatio. the expression of the individual depictions also varies, there are gentle but also aggressive moments. sexuality, lust, power, being at the mercy of others and surrendering - these are the basic motifs of these depictions. the limited range of colors resulting from the technique additionally accentuates the opposite of the sexes. the supposedly innocent woman in white faces the black man."},"estimateMax":800,"lotNumber":"140","title":{"de":"otto rudolf schatz* (vienna 1900 - 1961 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17339/view","tags":["daFineart_PrintsandMultiples","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":400,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":600,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-10T03:24:23.239Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac400 - 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lived with his jewish wife in prague and brno during world war ii. 1944 internment in the concentration camp gräditz, 1945 liberation by soviet troops. created mainly woodcuts, watercolors, cityscapes, socially critical works and murals, but also mosaics and sgraffiti for residential buildings. early interest in works by egon schiele, development between expressionism and new objectivity. in the 1920s and 1930s woodcuts in the style of new objectivity, including erotic motifs. among them also explicit depictions of lovemaking and physical lust and passion. \n \n the hagenbund artist otto rudolf schatz was a sought-after graphic artist and illustrator in the 1920s and 1930s. committed primarily to expressionism in his early works, schatz turned to neue sachlichkeit (new objectivity) in the mid-1920s. in addition to depictions of workers and cityscapes, nudes and erotica play a role in his oeuvre. schatz received his training at the vienna school of applied arts under kenner and strnad. in the 1920s and 1930s he illustrated and executed various books for socialist publishers. from 1925 schatz was a member of the association of austrian artists, which also organized the art show, from 1928 to 1938 of the hagenbund and from 1946 also of the vienna secession. in 1938 he emigrated to the czech republic and lived with his jewish wife in prague and brno in constant fear of reprisals. in 1944 the couple was interned, but later liberated by the russians. in 1945 schatz returned to vienna, where he received special support from city councilor for culture viktor matejka. before and after the war, schatz undertook numerous journeys, which took him to italy, france, england, switzerland, the balkans, asia and the usa. in addition to oil painting, schatz often uses the woodcut technique. he repeatedly deals with the world of work, industry, political developments and democratic ideas and creates a whole series of socio-critical illustrations. at the same time, there are also erotic scenes, some of which border on pornography, with which schatz \u2013 especially during the occupation period \u2013 can earn a living and save themselves financially through hard times. the series of erotic images stands out because of its high quality. in his depictions, schatz presents the women with the bobbed hair that was so typical of the time. in the individual sheets they find themselves in a sexual moment with one another or with a male counterpart. the scenes vary in their directness and clarity, ranging from touching and caressing to penetration and fellatio. the expression of the individual depictions also varies, there are gentle but also aggressive moments. sexuality, lust, power, being at the mercy of others and surrendering - these are the basic motifs of these depictions. the limited range of colors resulting from the technique additionally accentuates the opposite of the sexes. the supposedly innocent woman in white faces the black 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\n estimate °\u20ac 1.500 - 4.000 \n \n austrian painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. representative of exile art. came from a jewish family. studied psychology and psychoanalysis with wilhelm reich. studied at the kunstgewerbeschule in vienna and the reimann kunstschule in berlin. in the 1930s, close contact with oskar kokoschka, alfred kubin and hans böhler, exhibited at the vienna secession. lifelong friendship with the writer jean améry. fled to belgium in 1938 and paris in 1940, imprisoned with améry in french internment camp. his parents and brother were murdered in auschwitz. flea from the camp and joined the resistance, in 1945 the foreign legion in italy. from 1946 back in paris, friends with the painter eva friedmann. from 1954 promotion by the mendel family. in 1958 he met his future partner gail singer, who was a member of the artist group cobra. exhibited with the painters of the lyon circle. developed his own style with influences of interwar expressionism, cubism and futurism. counts to the abstract expressionism, color dabs and strokes comparable to the action paintings of jackson pollock. created mainly still lifes and cityscapes close to the border of the non-representational. \n \n erich schmid's pictures are direct testimonies and the legacy of a particularly consistent and at the same time tragic artist's existence. after fleeing the nazis, erich schmid manages to gain a foothold in paris, but the living conditions are extremely adverse. in his works, the artist captures the mood of those years. they do not serve as an escape from reality or a moral exaggeration of the post-war period of deprivation, but are the unadulterated testimonies of his life and at the same time expressions of his own psyche. he first studied psychology in vienna before going to the vienna school of applied arts from 1930 to 1934. in his pictures he always seeks the harmony of inner and outer reality. by combining a post-impressionist pictorial language with expressionist pictorial statements, he went against the taste of the times. the abstract painting that dominated the post-war art scene in paris did not suit him. erich schmid remains true to his own style and his own artistic goals even under difficult conditions. solitary and intellectual, both as a person and as an artist, he would rather refrain from critical acclaim than conform. jean amery, erich schmid's childhood friend, with whom he shares the fate of being persecuted by the nazis, the experience of flight and internment in france, writes about his pictures: \"i can't imagine my life without these pictures any more than (...) without the feelings that i experience.\" (...) \"i would indeed be unhappy if i were forced to live my life without erich schmid's paintings. his favorite subject is paris. often deserted, erich schmid does not just present the city to us as a lively, pulsating place, but also creates a remote, unworldly impression through the diffuse lighting situation, which does not allow for a temporal localization, and the complete absence of its inhabitants. the architecture is composed of a shimmering network of lines. for erich schmid, the city is a projection surface and its image is always a symbol with psychological quality."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"142","title":{"de":"erich schmid* (vienna 1908 - 1984 paris)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17341/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":1000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-10T03:24:21.730Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,500 - \u20ac4,000","currency":"EUR","id":17341,"estimateMin":1500},{"startPrice":1500,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17342/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17342/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"erich schmid* (vienna 1908 - 1984 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friedmann. from 1954 promotion by the mendel family. in 1958 he met his future partner gail singer, who was a member of the artist group cobra. exhibited with the painters of the lyon circle. developed his own style with influences of interwar expressionism, cubism and futurism. counts to the abstract expressionism, color dabs and strokes comparable to the action paintings of jackson pollock. created mainly still lifes and cityscapes close to the border of the non-representational. \n \n erich schmid's pictures are direct testimonies and the legacy of a particularly consistent and at the same time tragic artist's existence. after fleeing the nazis, erich schmid manages to gain a foothold in paris, but the living conditions are extremely adverse. in his works, the artist captures the mood of those years. they do not serve as an escape from reality or a moral exaggeration of the post-war period of deprivation, but are the unadulterated testimonies of his life and at the same time expressions of his own psyche. he first studied psychology in vienna before going to the vienna school of applied arts from 1930 to 1934. in his pictures he always seeks the harmony of inner and outer reality. by combining a post-impressionist pictorial language with expressionist pictorial statements, he went against the taste of the times. the abstract painting that dominated the post-war art scene in paris did not suit him. erich schmid remains true to his own style and his own artistic goals even under difficult conditions. solitary and intellectual, both as a person and as an artist, he would rather refrain from critical acclaim than conform. jean amery, erich schmid's childhood friend, with whom he shares the fate of being persecuted by the nazis, the experience of flight and internment in france, writes about his pictures: \"i can't imagine my life without these pictures any more than (...) without the feelings that i experience.\" (...) \"i would indeed be unhappy if i were forced to live my life without erich schmid's paintings. his favorite subject is paris. often deserted, erich schmid does not just present the city to us as a lively, pulsating place, but also creates a remote, unworldly impression through the diffuse lighting situation, which does not allow for a temporal localization, and the complete absence of its inhabitants. the architecture is composed of a shimmering network of lines. for erich schmid, the city is a projection surface and its image is always a symbol with psychological quality."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"143","title":{"de":"erich schmid* (vienna 1908 - 1984 paris)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17342/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":1500,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-10T03:24:21.731Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,000 - 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with oskar kokoschka, alfred kubin and hans böhler in the 1930s, exhibited in the vienna secession. lifelong friendship with the writer jean améry. fled to belgium in 1938 and to paris in 1940, imprisoned with améry in a french internment camp. his parents and brother were murdered in auschwitz. fled the camp and joined the résistance, the foreign legion in italy in 1945. back in paris from 1946, friends with the painter eva friedmann. from 1954 support from the mendel family. in 1958 he met his future partner gail singer, who was a member of the artist group cobra. exhibited with the painters of the lyon circle. developed his own style with influences from interwar expressionism, cubism and futurism. belongs to abstract expressionism, color dots and strokes comparable to jackson pollock's action paintings. created primarily still lifes and cityscapes bordering on the non-representational. \n \n erich schmid's pictures are direct testimonies and the legacy of a particularly consistent and at the same time tragic artist's existence. after fleeing the nazis, erich schmid manages to gain a foothold in paris, but the living conditions are extremely adverse. in his works, the artist captures the mood of those years. they do not serve as an escape from reality or a moral exaggeration of the post-war period of deprivation, but are the unadulterated testimonies of his life and at the same time expressions of his own psyche. he first studied psychology in vienna before going to the vienna school of applied arts from 1930 to 1934. in his pictures he always seeks the harmony of inner and outer reality. by combining a post-impressionist pictorial language with expressionist pictorial statements, he went against the taste of the times. the abstract painting that dominated the post-war art scene in paris did not suit him. erich schmid remains true to his own style and his own artistic goals even under difficult conditions. solitary and intellectual, both as a person and as an artist, he would rather refrain from critical acclaim than conform. jean amery, erich schmid's childhood friend, with whom he shares the fate of being persecuted by the nazis, the experience of flight and internment in france, writes about his pictures: \"i can't imagine my life without these pictures any more than (...) without the feelings that i experience.\" (...) \"i would indeed be unhappy if i were forced to live my life without erich schmid's paintings. in his still lifes, erich schmid uses simple motifs to capture the objects that can be found in his studio. it is not random objects that the artist chooses based on purely aesthetic criteria, but rather his own few belongings. erich schmid combines these private set pieces in an image of impressive simplicity that emphasizes the beauty inherent in everyday objects."},"estimateMax":5000,"lotNumber":"144","title":{"de":"erich schmid* (vienna 1908 - 1984 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eichhorn stuttgart gerokstr. 15, leihgabe an irene bautlin von otto baum \n provenance: private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 2.000 - 5.000 \n \n austrian artist of the 20th century. representative of non-objective and abstract art. studied with berthold löffler and anton faistauer. went to berlin in 1932 and 1944 to stuttgart. close friendship with willi baumeister. from 1956 he lived and worked in munich. member of the group zen 49, as were willi baumeister, rolf cavael, gerhard fietz, rupprecht geiger, willy hempel, brigitte matschinsky-denninghoff, and fritz winter. together with willi baumeister he founded the eidos-presse for the publication of graphic portfolios. created mainly figures, still lifes and landscapes. \n \n the art of the painter and graphic artist alfred eichhorn can be located at the stylistic crossroads between representationalism and abstraction. he was born in lower austria and went to berlin in 1932 after studying under berthold löffler and anton faistauer and subsequently built his career in germany. his artistic work took a decisive turn in 1944 when he met the stuttgart painter, graphic artist, stage designer, typographer and art theorist willi baumeister. today he is regarded as an important german modernist artist, who, particularly under the impression of african art and culture, was inspired in his own abstract paintings by the stimulating power, the ornamental structures and colour tones. before they got to know each other, eichhorn's painting of the \"evening garden\" from 1942 reveals his involvement with the painting of primitive peoples and with the repertoire of folk-art forms. although eichhorn works with motifs from the tradition of european garden depictions with the wrought-iron garden fence with a gate, the fountain and the garden vases, trees, hedges and bushes - he does not commit himself to any spatial or two-dimensional form of depiction. even in the colouring, which is characterized by dark olive-green tones and differently broken red tones, eichhorn evades the obligation to perceive reality. rather, paul klee becomes his model here, in whose imaginary landscapes it is not about the depiction of concrete places, but about the hotly contested concept of poetry at the time. eichhorn's friend, willi baumeister, sought to address and define this in his writings on art theory. in his work \"the unknown in art\", published in 1947, he quotes the philosopher leopold ziegler, who explains the pair of terms 'mimetic' and 'poetic': \"i mean the difference between a truly creative, in the platonic term 'poetic' art, which finds expression in the geometric ideogram, in the mathematical symbols: and in an aristotelian term 'mimetic' art, which strives for a graphic, pictorial, painterly representation of reality.\u201d like klee and baumeister, eichhorn sees himself as a painting poet \u2013 in the sense of baumeister, according to his analysis, the mimic (only) creates an afterimage, the poet, on the other hand, creates a role model. eichhorn, who together with baumeister became a member of the artists' group \"zen 49\" - the most important group of abstract art in germany - founded the eidos press together with baumeister, which became known through the publication of original graphic portfolios. an inscription on the back shows that the picture was loaned to irene bautlin by the swabian sculptor otto baum, who was ostracized by the nazis."},"estimateMax":5000,"lotNumber":"145","title":{"de":"alfred eichhorn* (st. valentin 1909 - 1972 donnerskirchen),"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17344/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":2000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-10T03:24:21.734Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,000 - 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walter gürtler, kurt seligmann, walter johannes moeschlin, ernst musfeld, bénédict remund, adolf weisskopf, thomas keller, alex maier and hans rudolf schiess. first exhibition at the galerie m. schulthess. in 1948 a new group formed against group 33 in basel kreis 48. 1970 dissolution of group 33."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"146","title":{"de":"umkreis gruppe 33 (basel 1933)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17345/view","tags":["daFineart_Watercolors","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":1000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-10T03:24:21.736Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,000 - \u20ac2,000","currency":"EUR","id":17345,"estimateMin":1000},{"startPrice":1000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17346/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17346/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"umkreis gruppe 33 (basel 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rhein, r. biringer, ffm. höchstr \n provenance: private collection southern germany, ketterer auctions munich 2008, european private collection \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 2.000 - 4.000 \n \n german painter, medalist and sculptor of the 20th century, especially of the interwar period. after an apprenticeship as a locksmith, from 1896 trained at the school of arts and crafts in frankfurt. 1900 to 1902 worked as an ornamental draftsman. 1902 to 1904 studies at the städelschule in frankfurt. then studied with hermann groeber in munich. worked as an industrial draftsman and sculptor, designed medals and bookplates. created mainly views of his hometown höchst and industrial plants such as the krupp factories. stylistically elements of magic realism and new objectivity recognizable."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"149","title":{"de":"richard biringer (höchst at main 1877 - 1947 höchst at 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artist, stage and costume designer of the 20th century. studied painting at the academy of fine arts with rudolf bacher and singing at the academy of music and performing arts. from 1932 worked as a stage designer for the burgtheater, state opera, theater an der wien, volksoper and salzburg festival, among others. from 1935 member of the vienna künstlerhaus. from 1945 to 1948 worked at the tiroler landestheater in innsbruck. 1971 designed the arrivals hall at the airport in vienna schwechat. erich fiala collected historical musical instruments with his wife isolde ahlgrimm, organized concerts together at palais pallavicini. active in the art trade, 1940 founded the strudlhof gallery. \n \n the viennese-born artist stephan hlawa studied at the vienna academy of fine arts with rudolf bachler and singing at the academy of music and performing arts. he worked primarily as a stage and costume designer at the most important theatres in the country - at the vienna burgtheater between 1932 and 1945 and from 1948 for the vienna state opera and volksoper, as well as for the vienna volkstheater, the salzburg festival and the innsbruck landestheater. however, he also appeared as a painter, graphic artist and book illustrator. for example, he contributed twelve original etchings to hans müller's mirror of agrippina from 1919. a development from an expressionist diction to a moderate modern style can be traced in his artistic oeuvre. in the portrait studies presented here of the purkersdorf-born music lover, musical instrument collector, concert manager, art dealer and partner in the manner factory erich fiala, hlawa's engagement with the most diverse modern currents in austrian portrait painting after the end of the second world war becomes apparent. from sergius pauser he seems to have partly adopted the pose language of the sitter, from josef dobrowsky the expressionist impetus, from herbert boeckl the courage for analytical abstraction and the desire for colouristic experimentation, and perhaps also from the young weiler the art of blurring the boundaries between painting and drawing. when he portrays fiala in tailcoat and glasses, hlawa also benefits from his many years of experience as a costume designer: with just a few brushstrokes he knows how to accentuate the characteristic and the moment typical of fiala's problematic figure. in his first marriage, fiala was married to the famous viennese harpsichordist and expert on historical musical instruments isolde ahlgrimm, whose concert manager he was to become. the habitus of this portrait therefore resonates with associations with portraits of vocal soloists, concert musicians or conductors. hlawa's portraits were created immediately after the end of the war, when fiala applied for exemption from prosecution for former nsdap members. the request was granted."},"estimateMax":1000,"lotNumber":"150","title":{"de":"stephan hlawa* (vienna 1896 - 1977 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artist, stage and costume designer of the 20th century. studied painting at the academy of fine arts with rudolf bacher and singing at the academy of music and performing arts. from 1932 worked as a stage designer for the burgtheater, state opera, theater an der wien, volksoper and salzburg festival, among others. from 1935 member of the vienna künstlerhaus. from 1945 to 1948 worked at the tiroler landestheater in innsbruck. 1971 designed the arrivals hall at the airport in vienna schwechat. erich fiala collected historical musical instruments with his wife isolde ahlgrimm, organized concerts together at palais pallavicini. active in the art trade, 1940 founded the strudlhof gallery. \n \n the viennese-born artist stephan hlawa studied at the vienna academy of fine arts with rudolf bachler and singing at the academy of music and performing arts. he worked primarily as a stage and costume designer at the most important theatres in the country - at the vienna burgtheater between 1932 and 1945 and from 1948 for the vienna state opera and volksoper, as well as for the vienna volkstheater, the salzburg festival and the innsbruck landestheater. however, he also appeared as a painter, graphic artist and book illustrator. for example, he contributed twelve original etchings to hans müller's mirror of agrippina from 1919. a development from an expressionist diction to a moderate modern style can be traced in his artistic oeuvre. in the portrait studies presented here of the purkersdorf-born music lover, musical instrument collector, concert manager, art dealer and partner in the manner factory erich fiala, hlawa's engagement with the most diverse modern currents in austrian portrait painting after the end of the second world war becomes apparent. from sergius pauser he seems to have partly adopted the pose language of the sitter, from josef dobrowsky the expressionist impetus, from herbert boeckl the courage for analytical abstraction and the desire for colouristic experimentation, and perhaps also from the young weiler the art of blurring the boundaries between painting and drawing. when he portrays fiala in tailcoat and glasses, hlawa also benefits from his many years of experience as a costume designer: with just a few brushstrokes he knows how to accentuate the characteristic and the moment typical of fiala's problematic figure. in his first marriage, fiala was married to the famous viennese harpsichordist and expert on historical musical instruments isolde ahlgrimm, whose concert manager he was to become. the habitus of this portrait therefore resonates with associations with portraits of vocal soloists, concert musicians or conductors. hlawa's portraits were created immediately after the end of the war, when fiala applied for exemption from prosecution for former nsdap members. the request was granted."},"estimateMax":1000,"lotNumber":"151","title":{"de":"stephan hlawa* (vienna 1896 - 1977 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fine arts with rudolf bacher and singing at the academy of music and performing arts. from 1932 worked as a stage designer for the burgtheater, state opera, theater an der wien, volksoper and salzburg festival, among others. from 1935 member of the vienna künstlerhaus. from 1945 to 1948 worked at the tiroler landestheater in innsbruck. 1971 designed the arrivals hall at the airport in vienna schwechat. also created landscapes, cityscapes and portraits. in the dream proximity to stage sets recognizable, surreal scene with a sleeping general between pendulum clock, ancient sculpture, ammonite and watchful dog. \n \n the viennese-born artist stephan hlawa studied at the vienna academy of fine arts with rudolf bachler and singing at the academy of music and performing arts. he worked primarily as a stage and costume designer at the most important theatres in the country - at the vienna burgtheater between 1932 and 1945 and from 1948 for the vienna state opera and volksoper, as well as for the vienna volkstheater, the salzburg festival and the innsbruck landestheater. however, he also appeared as a painter, graphic artist and book illustrator. for example, he contributed twelve original etchings to hans müller's mirror of agrippina from 1919. a development from an expressionist diction to a moderate modern style can be traced in his artistic oeuvre. stephan hlawa's ink drawing \"a dream\" is in the stylistic tradition of surrealism. in addition to dreamlike things, dream affinities such as daydreams, visions, hallucinations and phantasmagorias are also taken into account. long before sigmund freud's interpretation of dreams, humanity struggled to uncover a hidden meaning in dream narratives; a struggle that we already encounter in early religious and mythical traditions - for instance in the form of a moment of revelation. although dreaming is an involuntary and uninfluenceable activity of consciousness, its communication is all the more dependent on a process of transformation that reveals the recapitulation of the dream as memory work. thus, hlawa's picture is also to be understood first and foremost as a subjective and at the same time diffuse dream protocol, which is expressed here above all in the unmediated confrontation of the symbolic motifs. these revolve around the theme of the fleetingness of time, our mortality and the unenigmatic and mysterious. hlawa flanks the composition on the left with an antique female sculpture in front of a curtain and on the right with a ticking pendulum clock. the foreground is occupied by a reclining man in a suit, of whom we do not know whether he is dreaming or dead, and behind whom the painter inserts a closed state coffin, a greyhound and a floating nautilus shell. behind it, the view opens up into a mysterious mountain landscape. hlawa's artistic dream protocol sees itself as a memory protocol and the dream communication as a \"subsequent appropriation of the ephemeral\" and as a visualised process of appropriation, approach, linguisation, translation or transformation. the spatial relationships between the objects recede into the background here, are dissolved, but without completely negating their spatial references. the ancient bust also refers to the efforts of antiquity to give meaning to the dream: while plato, for example, still assumes that dreams are sent by gods, his student aristotle interprets them as a necessary form of regeneration and thus provides the first dream-theoretical analysis and also the first rudiments of modern, physiological attempts to explain the understanding of dreams."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"152","title":{"de":"stephan hlawa* (vienna 1896 - 1977 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impulses of expressionism and new objectivity. created mainly landscapes and still lifes and portraits of figures in muted, restrained colors. his involvement with the works of paul cezanne can be seen above all in his still lifes and landscapes. \n \n wilhelm bittorf from offenbach in hesse studied at the städel in frankfurt at mein with rassmussen and max beckmann. he later worked in berlin, where he maintained a studio on gneisenaustrasse in kreuzberg."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"154","title":{"de":"wilhelm bittorf (offenbach 1904 - 1951 berlin)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17353/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":1200,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:31.205Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,500 - 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in 1920, together with hanns ludwig katz, gottfried diehl and the art dealer cramer, founds the artists' group ghat. travels to france, italy, austria and the netherlands. 1925 acquaintance with max beckmann. 1938 in the course of the nazi action degenerate art some works confiscated. stylistically to expressionism, close to erich heckel, ernst ludwig kirchner and alexej von jawlensky and karl schmidt-rottluff. created landscapes, figurative representations and portraits and self-portraits in strong colors. \n \n emil betzler first studied at the kunstgewerbeschule elberfeld and then at the staatliche kunstakademie düsseldorf, where he passed the examination for the artistic teaching post in 1914. from 1914 to 1915 he did military service, from which he retired due to a serious injury. in 1916 he took up a teaching post in frankfurt a. main. in 1917 betzler published the portfolio \"christ passion\". in 1919 he became a member of the \"frankfurter künstlerbund\" and took part in the first major group exhibition in the m. goldschmidt gallery. with hanns ludwig katz, gottfried diehl and the gallery owner herbert cramer, he founded the expressionist artist group \"ghat\" in 1920. from the very beginning he was valued in particular as a portraitist. during his entire creative period, however, he also created self-portraits and expressive, moving landscapes such as the present oil painting with the two rivers, which only meet outside the right edge of the picture, and the cubic white houses on the piece of land surrounded by the watercourses. landscapes like these were created in particular in connection with numerous trips to italy, france, austria and the netherlands. in 1925 betzler made the acquaintance of max beckmann; the following year he was appointed a teacher at the liebig-oberrealschule in frankfurt. in 1930 he was promoted to specialist advisor for art education at universities. accused of \u201cbolshevik disintegration\u201d in 1933, betzler lost his positions, after which he withdrew into private life. in the course of the \"degenerate art\" campaign, three of his works were confiscated in 1937, which are still missing today. after 1945, betzler again developed a lively exhibition activity. as a member of the bdk, betzler emerged in the 1950s with his writings and as a teacher in the field of art education. in 1967 he was awarded the federal cross of merit."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"155","title":{"de":"emil betzler* (kamen 1892 - 1974 frankfurt at main)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17354/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":1200,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:31.209Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,500 - 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especially german expressionism. born in new york as a child of german immigrants, he came to germany to study. from 1909 member of the berlin secession. 1911 in paris impulses from robert delaunay and french cubism. 1912 to the artists of the blue rider and beginning of friendship with alfred kubin. 1918 member of the november group around max pechstein and acquaintance with walter gropius, who brought him to the bauhaus in weimar and later to dessau and berlin. together with paul klee, wassily kandinsky and alexej jawlensky founded the artist group die blaue vier. in 1937 his works were classified by the nazis as degenerate art. 1937 emigration to the usa, lived in new york. contact with fernand léger and marsden hartley. created mainly graphic works but also oil paintings with architecture, ships and locomotives. \n \n for the german-american artist and important bauhaus teacher lyonel feininger, who was born in new york in 1871, cityscapes held a special fascination throughout his life. this was also reflected in his artistic oeuvre: subjects with houses and church spires not only take up a lot of space, but also represent a constant in his work, conceived as abstract, light-flooded color surfaces. he usually made \u201cnotes\u201d first, as he called his sketches, on site. he saw these as his \u201cartistic capital\u201d and then used them repeatedly in his later paintings, drawings and prints as inspiration for cubist-inspired works in his unmistakable linear-geometric style. from these he should then - similar to the romantic painters - only develop his abstract views in the studio and thus very far from the depicted landscapes. as early as 1907 he legitimized this way of working: \u201cwhat is seen must be internally reshaped and crystallized.\u201d in the present ink drawing, which is dated 1954 and can therefore be regarded as a late work by the then eighty-three-year-old artist, he sticks to the crystalline structure and ostentatious mood true to his mature style. he is still full of energy, as he wrote to tekla hess in a letter dated july 15, 1951: \u201ci am now becoming aware of the importance of approaching 80, although this seems like an overestimated decade. i feel fresh (...) and full of ideas and not as old as i imagine. in any case, i expect to continue working, and that for quite a while.\u201d feininger develops this cubist-abstract landscape again with those fine ink lines, which, like tailors\u2019 patterns, always seem slightly interrupted and remind us of his alley studies in neu brandenburg from 1925. in this way feininger achieves the greatest possible abstraction, dematerialization and transparency. feininger's friend, the art historian alois j. schardt, wrote in 1921 that constant reassurance about natural phenomena saved feininger from a formulaic paralysis that threatened completely abstract art."},"estimateMax":16000,"lotNumber":"156","title":{"de":"lyonel feininger* (new york 1871 - 1956 new 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1891 - 1945 missing) \n winter landscape with tower \n oil/wood, 47,1 x 63 cm \n monogrammed fs and dated 1933 \n verso inscribed franz sedlacek wien, 1933 \"winterlandschaft mit turm\", as well as label of the vereinigung bildender künstler vienna secession \n exhibited at the vienna secession in 1933 \n depicted in the 1933 secession catalog i, no. 57; in the painter and graphic artist dr. franz sedlacek, dissertation innsbruck 1987, p. 257, no. 78; in the exhibition catalog neue sachlichkeit, kunstforum vienna 1995, p. 65, fig. 69; in the catalog raisonné of franz sedlacek, vienna 2011, p. 96 and p. 189, with the number wv 88 \n provenance: private collection hungary, fine arts widder vienna, european private collection \n \n \n estimate \u20ac 400.000 - 800.000 \n \n austrian painter of the 20th century, especially of the interwar period. main representative of the new objectivity. born in breslau and grew up in linz in upper austria. studied architecture and chemistry in vienna from 1910. together with anton lutz, franz and klemens brosch and heinz bitzan, he founded in 1913 the linz artists' association maerz. worked from 1921 at the technical museum in vienna in the department of chemical industry. 1927 member of the vienna secession. from 1928 friendship with herbert reyl-hanisch, also stylistic proximity to his works.. 1939 war deployment in stalingrad, norway and poland, considered missing in action since 1945. inspired by the art of romanticism and flemish-dutch painting by joachim patinier, joss de momper, pieter bruegel the elder and michael wuttky. stylistically located between magic realism and new objectivity. created mainly romantic landscapes, magical worlds, floral still lifes and winter pictures with skiers or snowball fights in old master painting style. in the dream worlds cavort bizarre and grotesque creatures combined with set pieces from technology and everyday life. fantastic, partly gloomy mood reminds one of alfred kubin or the texts of gustav meyrink and edgar allen poe. \n \n franz sedlacek is indisputably one of the most extraordinary painters of the austrian interwar art scene. long forgotten, the studied chemist was celebrated as a new discovery among the fantastic realists in the late 1970s. sedlacek initially focused on graphics before turning to oil painting. here he made a noise in the world with new-objective pictures painted in the glaze technique of the old masters. a magical, surreal moment is always inherent in his precisely designed paintings. in addition to still lifes, landscapes with many figures play the most important role in his work. in the early 1930s, franz sedlacek created a series of four urban winter landscapes. they reveal sedlacek's relation to german romanticism and, in particular, his examination of the work of caspar david friedrich, whose light drama and silhouette effect noticeably influenced sedlacek's work. three of these cityscapes hang in important public collections. the fourth present picture, like its creator himself, has been considered lost since the war. the rediscovery of this major work of new objectivity (neue sachlichkeit), which would do credit to any museum, can without exaggeration be rated as a sensation. meticulously composed down to the last detail, the winter landscape from 1933 under a dark sky is an excellent example of sedlacek's technical and artistic mastery. the mysterious is metaphorically combined with twilight, dusk and night. the art of painting moves in the infinite mixture of light and dark; between the poles of unambiguity and ambiguity. intuitions, fears, assumptions and danger unsettle us. the second half of the 19th century was downright \u201caddicted to twilight\u201d, not only in the visual arts, but also in poetry and music. the \"shady\", sinister characters of romance and the gothic revival moved from godforsaken landscapes, deep forests, dilapidated castles and monasteries to the cities in the 20th century. hans holländer writes: \"gustav meyrink's golem haunts the old prague ghetto, kubin's utopian city fantasy consists of old, disreputable houses, and often the special, thoroughly dubious effect is the non-simultaneity of the simultaneous with the collision of the old with the new.\" franz sedlacek himself wrote a posthumously published fantastic story entitled die stadt, which states: \u201cour city was short 40,000 inhabitants, traversed by a winding river stream and lay at the foot of a mighty mountain range, that crashed towards her in terrible cliffs from the north. these walls were cut by numerous gorges, through wich the small and larger torrents came down as waterfalls came down, which then joined the river mostly through vaulted canals.\u201d at first glance, the scenery of the painting shows with the perspective depth effect typical of sedlacek happy people in a snowy urban landscape with sculpturally modeled buildings in front of a snowy hill and, farther in the background, a snow covered mountain range. the adults walk peacefully their path, the children clearly have fun. does the tower foreshadow something gloomy, or does it rather stands for protection and defiance, while the actual menace lurks in the distant white mountains, in this cold, infinite universal landscape? it is this abysmal mysteriousness that captivates the viewer and makes us contemplate the human condition."},"estimateMax":800000,"lotNumber":"157","title":{"de":"franz sedlacek (wroclaw 1891 - 1945 missing)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17356/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":300000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":560000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:31.220Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac400,000 - 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hauser. 1923/24 also member of the group of 6 and from 1947 member of the donauwaldgruppe, as also hermann erbe-vogel, august philipp henneberger, reinhold koeppel, walter mauder, wilhelm niedermayer and heinz theuerjahr. 1927 to 1938 also a member of the hagenbund. early influences of impressionism, early 1920s development toward expressionism and cubism. in the 1930s works in the style of new objectivity, then again created expressionist works. created landscapes, portraits and nudes and in the late work also abstract works. \n \n georg philipp wörlen was born in 1886 in dillingen an der donau, in bavarian swabia. he attended the school of arts and crafts in nuremberg and learned under a church painter. he then worked as a restorer in the altheimer studio in regensburg. in 1914 he moved to marnheim as a teacher, where he taught at a secondary school. during his front-line duty in world war i, among them romania and france, his son hanns egon wörlen was born. wörlen himself was injured twice during the war. shortly before the end of war he was taken as a british prisoner. after his return, wörlen moved with his family to passau and became an art teacher at the leopoldinum high school. together with franz bronstert, fritz fuhrken and reinhard hilker, he founded the artists' group \"der fels, \" which organized more than 30 exhibitions between 1920 and 1927. shortly thereafter, carry hauser also joined this group. during 1923 and 1924 wörlen was also a member of the artists' group \"die sechs\". in 1927 he joined the hagenbund and in 1946 he founded the \"donau-wald-gruppe\" with some fellow artists. the artist's estate can be found today in the museum moderner kunst wörlen in passau."},"estimateMax":300,"lotNumber":"158","title":{"de":"georg philipp wörlen* (dillingen at danube 1886 - 1954 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painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. attended the school of arts and crafts in nuremberg, worked as a restorer in the altheimer studio in regensburg. 1920 returned to passau, worked as an art teacher at the gymnasium. member of the artist group der fels, as well as fritz fuhrken, franz bronstert, reinhard hilker and carry hauser. 1923/24 also member of the group of 6 and from 1947 member of the donauwaldgruppe, as also hermann erbe-vogel, august philipp henneberger, reinhold koeppel, walter mauder, wilhelm niedermayer and heinz theuerjahr. 1927 to 1938 also a member of the hagenbund. early influences of impressionism, early 1920s development toward expressionism and cubism. in the 1930s works in the style of new objectivity, then again created expressionist works. created landscapes, portraits and nudes and in the late work also abstract works. \n \n georg philipp wörlen was born in 1886 in dillingen an der donau, in bavarian swabia. he attended the school of arts and crafts in nuremberg and learned under a church painter. he then worked as a restorer in the altheimer studio in regensburg. in 1914 he moved to marnheim as a teacher, where he taught at a secondary school. during his front-line duty in world war i, among them romania and france, his son hanns egon wörlen was born. wörlen himself was injured twice during the war. shortly before the end of war he was taken as a british prisoner. after his return, wörlen moved with his family to passau and became an art teacher at the leopoldinum high school. together with franz bronstert, fritz fuhrken and reinhard hilker, he founded the artists' group \"der fels, \" which organized more than 30 exhibitions between 1920 and 1927. shortly thereafter, carry hauser also joined this group. during 1923 and 1924 wörlen was also a member of the artists' group \"die sechs\". in 1927 he joined the hagenbund and in 1946 he founded the \"donau-wald-gruppe\" with some fellow artists. the artist's estate can be found today 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g.ph.w., numbered 31/32 \n provenance: estate of the artist, private collection switzerland, fine arts widder vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 200 - 300 \n \n german painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. attended the school of arts and crafts in nuremberg, worked as a restorer in the altheimer studio in regensburg. 1920 returned to passau, worked as an art teacher at the gymnasium. member of the artist group der fels, as well as fritz fuhrken, franz bronstert, reinhard hilker and carry hauser. 1923/24 also member of the group of 6 and from 1947 member of the donauwaldgruppe, as also hermann erbe-vogel, august philipp henneberger, reinhold koeppel, walter mauder, wilhelm niedermayer and heinz theuerjahr. 1927 to 1938 also a member of the hagenbund. early influences of impressionism, early 1920s development toward expressionism and cubism. in the 1930s works in the style of new objectivity, then again created expressionist works. created landscapes, portraits and nudes and in the late work also abstract works. \n \n georg philipp wörlen was born in 1886 in dillingen an der donau, in bavarian swabia. he attended the school of arts and crafts in nuremberg and learned under a church painter. he then worked as a restorer in the altheimer studio in regensburg. in 1914 he moved to marnheim as a teacher, where he taught at a secondary school. during his front-line duty in world war i, among them romania and france, his son hanns egon wörlen was born. wörlen himself was injured twice during the war. shortly before the end of war he was taken as a british prisoner. after his return, wörlen moved with his family to passau and became an art teacher at the leopoldinum high school. together with franz bronstert, fritz fuhrken and reinhard hilker, he founded the artists' group \"der fels, \" which organized more than 30 exhibitions between 1920 and 1927. shortly thereafter, carry hauser also joined this group. during 1923 and 1924 wörlen was also a member of the artists' group \"die sechs\". in 1927 he joined the hagenbund and in 1946 he founded the \"donau-wald-gruppe\" with some fellow artists. the artist's estate can be found today in the museum moderner kunst wörlen in passau."},"estimateMax":300,"lotNumber":"160","title":{"de":"georg philipp wörlen* (dillingen at danube 1886 - 1954 passau)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17359/view","tags":["daFineart_PrintsandMultiples","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":200,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":250,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:31.234Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac200 - \u20ac300","currency":"EUR","id":17359,"estimateMin":200},{"startPrice":200,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17360/001/001.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"georg philipp wörlen* (dillingen at danube 1886 - 1954 passau)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"georg philipp wörlen* \n (dillingen at danube 1886 - 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of new objectivity, then again created expressionist works. created landscapes, portraits and nudes and in the late work also abstract works. \n \n georg philipp wörlen was born in 1886 in dillingen an der donau, in bavarian swabia. he attended the school of arts and crafts in nuremberg and learned under a church painter. he then worked as a restorer in the altheimer studio in regensburg. in 1914 he moved to marnheim as a teacher, where he taught at a secondary school. during his front-line duty in world war i, among them romania and france, his son hanns egon wörlen was born. wörlen himself was injured twice during the war. shortly before the end of war he was taken as a british prisoner. after his return, wörlen moved with his family to passau and became an art teacher at the leopoldinum high school. together with franz bronstert, fritz fuhrken and reinhard hilker, he founded the artists' group \"der fels, \" which organized more than 30 exhibitions between 1920 and 1927. shortly thereafter, carry hauser also joined this group. during 1923 and 1924 wörlen was also a member of the artists' group \"die sechs\". in 1927 he joined the hagenbund and in 1946 he founded the \"donau-wald-gruppe\" with some fellow artists. the artist's estate can be found today in the museum moderner kunst wörlen in passau."},"estimateMax":300,"lotNumber":"161","title":{"de":"georg philipp wörlen* (dillingen at danube 1886 - 1954 passau)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17360/view","tags":["daFineart_PrintsandMultiples","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":200,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:30.292Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac200 - 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the artists' association die brücke, as were ernst ludwig kirchner, erich heckel, karl schmidt-rottluff, otto mueller, cuno amiet, emil nolde and kees van dongen. in 1907, in paris, he came into contact with henri matisse and fauvism. close contact with kees van dongen and andré derain. from 1908 in berlin, acquaintance with his later wife lotte kaprolat. she was georg kolbe's model and also his most frequent model from 1908 to 1920. exposure to the works of vincent van gogh and edvard munch. in 1908 member of the berlin secession and in 1910 member of the new secession, as well as moritz melzer, georg tappert, arthur segal. acquaintance with franz marc and august macke, thereby good contacts with the blue rider in munich. from 1909 regularly on the kuhrische nehrung on the baltic sea in the fishing village of nidden, member of the nidden artists' association, including ernst bischoff-culm and ernst mollenhauer. 1913/1914 trip to the south seas. 1918 co-founder of the novembergruppe together with rudolf belling and erich mendelsohn and of the arbeitsrat für kunst. 1937 his works classified as degenerate art by the nazis. 1944 a large part of his works burned due to the effects of war. 1945 professor at the university of the arts in berlin. regular stays at the lebasee and kosersee in pomerania. created mainly exotic landscapes, dance motifs and portraits of women or female heads in intense, strong and bright colors."},"estimateMax":16000,"lotNumber":"162","title":{"de":"alex smadja* (mostaganem 1897 - 1977 saint-léger-en-bray)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17361/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":5000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":6000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:30.299Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac8,000 - 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lauckner. took lessons in dresden from charles johann palmié, the founder of the artists' colony in kallmünz. interacted with charles palmié and max pechstein. exhibited with paul cassirer together with vuillard, sisley, courbet and pissarro. in the 1920s exhibited with hanns goltz, ferdinand möller, and kunsthaus schaller in stuttgart. as a costume and stage designer, worked with max reinhardt and gustav gründgens. 1937 some works destroyed during the nazi action degenerate art. 2005 exhibition at the barthelmess & wischnewski gallery. artistic model giovanni segantini, especially in the landscapes influence of pointilism visible. the pregnant woman was created immediately after acquaintance with max pechstein, motherhood and pregnancy with references to classical icon depictions and archaic dancers in the background."},"estimateMax":5000,"lotNumber":"163","title":{"de":"lydia elfriede lucie thum* (berlin 1886 - 1952 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germany, gallery elisengarten aachen (germany), fine arts widder \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 15.000 - 25.000 \n \n german painter of the 20th century. attended the aachen school of arts and crafts and studied at the academy in munich and stuttgart. from 1926 in berlin, worked as a graphic artist mainly as studio manager of the berliner tagesblatt. member of the verein der berlinder künste and the munich secession. 1928 returned to aachen, head of the class for commercial art at the werkkunstschule. together with the dialect poet and newspaper scholar will hermanns, the sculptor alfred pieper, the decorator hein lentzen and the engineer joseph lausberg, founded the aachen marionette plays. created landscapes, still lifes and cityscapes, but also biblical scenes such as the scene from the old testament. taken from the book of genesis, lot and his daughters flee from sodom and gomorrah. \n \n aachen-born student of the local school of applied arts and student of the art academies in munich and stuttgart willi kohl deals here with one of the most famous episodes from the book of genesis of the old testament. the fall of sodom and gomorrah. immediately before this catastrophe, lot was commanded by two messengers of god to leave the city quickly with his family, \"without looking behind him.\" but because lot hesitated for the time being, the messengers of god brought him to safety along with his wife and two daughters. they were told to retreat to the mountains, but lot did not want to do so, so he asked his companions if they could seek refuge in the city of zoar instead, which lot was now allowed to do. at sunrise, the lord rained down sulfur and fire from heaven on sodom and gomorrah. but because lot's wife turned around against the instruction of the angels, she froze to a pillar of salt, with which only lot and his daughters should remain alive in the course of this rescue action. kohl compresses the decisive moments of this parable about the depravity of mankind, the wrath of god and his protective hand over the god-fearing in a simultaneous depiction. in the somber foreground lot flees with his two daughters from the city, which is already sinking in fire and brimstone. despite stylization in the details and the drawing of the figures, the painter describes the togetherness and juxtaposition of the figures. lot's daughters have shouldered their most necessary belongings and flank their father. the father is leaning with his right hand on a walking stick, while he grasps his forehead with his left hand. with it he expresses probably his incomprehension for his wife, who separated from the group, in order to throw a view of the burning city. in the middle ground on the left lot's wife, who did not know how to restrain her curiosity and negated the divine instruction, has frozen to a pillar of salt. if one takes into account the time when this painting was created, the year 1919 as the first year of peace after the end of the first world war, which plunged the old europe into ruins and, because of the necessary reconstruction work, did not allow a glorified look back to the old times, then perhaps a second level of meaning resonates here. in this composition, kohl works with prismatic and rhythmic forms and relies on motivic repetition as well as on a cubist-based abstraction. kohl positions the main group in the foreground, which is moving in shadowy unison to safety from the inferno over the godless city, in front of a landscape brightly illuminated in the firelight, whose degree of abstraction seems to be heightened even further in the direction of the background. one could almost speak of a rupture that emerges here in the choice of means of abstraction in the foreground and background design. the spatial stage of the foreground is characterized by originality in form and content. kohl organizes it from stylized rock formations that owe their plastic effect to color-shaded edges and vertical surfaces. with variegated faceted cones of color fanning out broadly over the staccato roofscape, kohl hints at the burning down of the city in the background. what at first seems like a chaotic architectural etude nevertheless follows an orderly structure. kohl refers stylistically to the russian pioneer of abstract painting, to the russian painter wassily kandinsky, whose theory of abstraction defined the field of reference between reality and abstraction: \"abstract art creates a new world alongside the \"real\" world, which from the outside has nothing to do with \"reality\". inside it follows general laws of \"the cosmic world\". thus, next to \"the world of nature\" appears the new \"world of art\" - a very real, concrete world. that is why i prefer to call the so-called \"abstract art\" the concrete art\". in addition to kandinsky, there are echoes in kohl's paintings of the colorful abstract compositions of adolf hölzel, who was also one of the early pioneers of classical modernist painting. hölzel and his constant desire to experimentally expand artistic means and sensitively reflect on the laws of pictorial creation obviously also encouraged kohl to quickly switch between the different modes of abstraction and to apply them even within a single painting. kohl, who moved to berlin in 1926, subsequently benefited from this ability when, as studio manager of the berliner tagblatt, he turned increasingly to artistic commercial art. from 1948, as director of the werkkunstschule in his hometown of aachen, he was to make it his subject of instruction as well."},"estimateMax":25000,"lotNumber":"164","title":{"de":"willi kohl* (aachen 1888 - 1971 aachen)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17363/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":13000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:30.316Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac15,000 - 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with carl otto cscheska, together with alexander friedrich and anne-marie vogler, among others. early influences of art nouveau and expressionism. deployed in world war i, suffered severe blue cross poisoning. from 1921 member of the hamburg secession, the hamburg artists' association and co-founder of the art club die insel. from the end of the 1920s, travels to the mediterranean region, africa and the near east. lived from 1929 to 1931 in sidi bou saïd, an artists' village in tunisia. in 1937, several paintings destroyed during the nazi degenerate art campaign. stylistic development between new objectivity and magic realism with impulses from cubism and futurism. created landscapes and especially allegorical, religious or fantastic figure paintings such as mary with the child jesus. color intensity and variety of forms comparable to the main work of the bathing boys. \n \n the german painter and graphic artist otto rodewald came from a merchant family in schöningen. carl otto czeschka was one of his teachers during his studies at the school of applied arts in hamburg from 1909 to 1914, and his designs, based on viennese art nouveau, inspired his early sketches. rodewald was a versatile painter who created important works in different stylistic phases. his works were exhibited in the hamburger kunsthalle and in the schleswig-holstein state museums amobg others. in 1910 rodewald won second prize in the competition for the design of monograms and signets. 1921 he joined the circle of the hamburg secession, of which he became an official member seven years later. he undertook study trips to switzerland, france, italy and the middle east and lived in tunisia from 1929 to 1931. he is considered one of the most important representatives of hamburg expressionism, more precisely \"revolutionary expressionism\", in which a wide variety of stylistic influences were mixed. in this sense, rodewald combined elements of symbolism, japonism, art nouveau, expressionism, futurism and new objectivity (neue sachlichkeit) into a homogeneous personal style. several of his works were confiscated from the hamburger kunsthalle in 1937 as \u201cdegenerate art\u201d. otto rodewald's picture of maria and the child jesus is reminiscent of the artist's famous \"bathing boys\" that the artist created several times, both in terms of the expressive colors and the ornamental detail of the expressive, crystalline composition. during the first world war, otto rodewald belonged to an assault battalion. he was wounded several times in trench warfare and suffered the rest of his life from the effects of blue cross poisoning. in quiet hours, horror overcame him and dreamlike images of plants and madonnas came over him. at that time, rodewald was trying to overcome what he had experienced by erecting walls around himself \"only out of color and form\". the works that emerged from this desire are not only important for the painter himself, but with their expressive, crystalline composition also for that whole era. this fantastically romantic style however, rodewald had essentially already acquired at the hamburg school of applied arts. the forms from which rodewald composes his pictures are, in the absence of acute angles, at the same time calm and yet full of movement, an effect that is accentuated intensely by the expressive color. the depiction of mary with the baby jesus is like the \"bathing boys\", characterized by a mysterious dreamlike glow and modeled from red, blue and green tones, with the red clearly dominating. the formula \"maria mater dei\" (mary, mother of god) from the ave maria is written in gothic minuscule in a suggested nimbus that covers the head of the mother of god like a veil. immediately below, a cross and the sequence of letters inri, the usual abbreviation of the inscription on the cross \u201ciesus nazarenus rex iudaeorum\u201d (jesus of nazareth, king of the jews) in christian iconography, refer to the passion. maria lovingly bends over the child and caresses his head, which is surrounded by a simple nimbus. a radiance emanates from christ, the word of god made flesh; he has raised his right hand in a gesture of speech or blessing and offers us a glimpse of the brightly lit heavenly jerusalem, while in his left hand he presents a floating bright yellow star. this star corresponds in shape and size to a green star that hovers in front of the blessed mother's face. christ meets us here on the one hand as the light of the world, on the other hand as the copula of the universe, as mediator between god and the world. in this magical, fantastic depiction, earthly motherly love is combined with the transcendence of the timeless act of salvation."},"estimateMax":80000,"lotNumber":"165","title":{"de":"otto rodewald* (schöningen 1891 - 1960 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dekoration, darmstadt 1925, vol. 55, s. 279 \n only known self portrait of the artist, who is also known as othon coubine \n provenance: collection adolphe basler, franck laigneau antiquities paris, european private collection \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 15.000 - 25.000 \n \n czech-french painter of the 20th century. known in france as othon coubine. member of the prague artists' group the eight. in 1913 he participated in the first german autumn salon in berlin, exhibited by herwarth walden together with emil filla, otto gutfreund and vincenc beneš. from 1912 he lived in france. friendship with pablo picasso. early influences of impressionism and post-impressionism such as vincent van gogh and paul gauguin. created in france mainly landscapes, still lifes and portraits in cool, muted colors in the style of new objectivity."},"estimateMax":25000,"lotNumber":"166","title":{"de":"otakar kubin*/ othon coubine* (boskovice 1883 - 1969 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kunstausstellung 1938 at haus der kunst, munich; label rue de l'art gallery; label owner gen. dir. dr. kruspig hamburg \n provenance: acquired from the artist, walter kruspig collection, helene kruspig 1939, werner peiner estate, thomas schneider gallery in munich, european private collection \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 20.000 - 30.000 \n \n german painter of the 20th century. studied at the düsseldorf art academy from 1919, in the 1920s with fritz burmann and richard gessner founded the artists' group dreimannbund. friendship with architect emil fahrenkamp, commissions to design church, insurance and industrial buildings. 1931 in kronenburg in the eifel, converted houses there into studios and designed street lamps, among other things. 1933 after heinrich campendonk professor of monumental painting at the academy in düsseldorf. students in kronenburg included rolf dettmann, willi sitte and willi wewer. created mainly tapestries and oil paintings including allegories such as the youth and portraits with influences from art nouveau and new objectivity."},"estimateMax":30000,"lotNumber":"167","title":{"de":"werner peiner* (düsseldorf 1897 - 1984 leichlingen)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17366/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":15000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":18000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:30.376Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac20,000 - \u20ac30,000","currency":"EUR","id":17366,"estimateMin":20000},{"startPrice":130000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17367/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17367/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17367/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"herbert ploberger* (wels 1902 - 1977 munich)"},"soldDate":"2022-05-19","available":false,"description":{"de":"herbert ploberger* \n (wels 1902 - 1977 munich) \n on the table, under the table \n oil/canvas, 89 x 116 cm \n signed ploberger and dated 1925 \n exhibited and illustrated in the catalogs of the exhibitions herbert ploberger, life and work, lebensspuren wels and nordico linz 2002, p. 60; in herbert ploberger, paintings and graphics, 100th birthday, landesgalerie linz 2005, p. 86; in herbert ploberger, im spannungsfeld zwischen bildender und angewandter kunst, landesgalerie linz 2019, p. 112 \n depicted in kunstjahrbuch linz 1979, p. 52, fig. 4 \n provenance: private property austria, dorotheum vienna 2001, gallery berinson berlin, private collection germany, auction im kinsky 2009 and 2016, austrian private collection \n \n \n estimate \u20ac 150.000 - 250.000 \n \n austrian painter and costume and stage designer of the 20th century. main representative of the new objectivity. originally from wels in upper austria, studied at the school of applied arts in vienna under franz cizek, alfred böhm and victor schufinsky. in 1925 for a short time in paris, from 1927 in berlin. worked for the magazines jugend and querschnitt and as a stage designer with ludwig kainer and ernst stern, e.g. in 1930 for the premiere of weißes rössl under max reinhardt and for clemens holzmeister at the felsenreitschule in salzburg. in 1945, after vienna and linz, works for the theater in der josefstadt and the salzburg festival, and from 1950 again works for film in hamburg and munich. in addition to works for stage and film, mainly oil paintings with self-portraits and still lifes completely committed to the new objectivity. \n \n however, the life's work of this versatile artist encompasses much more than his unique neo-objective paintings. ploberger was not only a visual artist, but also an applied artist, working as a costume and set designer for theater, film and television in linz, vienna, berlin, hamburg and munich. with his berlin anti-war paintings, he also made weighty artistic contributions to contemporary history. among his unique still lifes, hcreated between 1925 and 1929 in paris, vienna and berlin, the painting \"on the table under the table\" from 1925 presented here is undoubtedly one of the highlights of his painting art. however, the life's work of this versatile artist encompasses much more than his unique neo-objective paintings. ploberger was not only a visual artist, but also an applied artist, working as a costume and set designer for theater, film and television in linz, vienna, berlin, hamburg and munich. with his berlin anti-war paintings, he also made weighty artistic contributions to contemporary history. among his unique still lifes, created between 1925 and 1929 in paris, vienna and berlin, the painting \"on the table under the table\" from 1925 presented here is undoubtedly one of the highlights of his painting art. at the same time, it also marks a decisive turning point in his education. ploberger received his artistic training at the school of applied arts in vienna, where he studied from 1920 to 1925 under the professors adolf böhm, franz cižek, erich mallina and viktor schufinsky, changing classes several times - from the nude class to the \"class for signs and forms based on the human figure\" and finally to the course in \"ornamental form theory\". during this period of study, ploberger explored the creative possibilities of constructivism as well as kinetism. in march 1925, ploberger then left for paris, \"where he painted pictures and, in order to finance his life, painted pavilions for the world's fair of that time\" - according to his marginal note in his later written curriculum vitae. at this \"exposition internationale des arts decorativs et industriels modernes, \" students of the vienna school of applied arts from the classes of franz cižek, alfred böhm, and erich mallina showed their work. during his four-month stay in paris, ploberger probably also painted this still life, which is the only surviving work from 1925 and is thus considered the earliest painting in his oeuvre. ingrid radauer-helm has therefore also paid special attention to this still life in her monograph published in 2019 on the occasion of the exhibition in the landesgalerie linz: \"gathered on a table are empty bottles, a coffee pot, a potted plant, tomatoes and citrus fruits, eggs, small boxes and packaging, as well as a hat and a pipe. below, a crate of limes seems to float above the floor. crowded on a stool are a full coffee cup, two lemons, and a vase full of tulips. some of the objects, such as the hat, are partially suspended in mid-air. there is no clear perspective in this depiction; the things seem animated, their arrangement relative to one another seeming to give them a life of their own. several billowing, undulating scarves add to the restless effect. this work has an almost surreal aura and thus contrasts with the later still lifes, from which a meditative calm emanates throughout.\" that this work was created during ploberger's stay in paris is also confirmed by the french inscriptions on some objects, such as the wine bottles with the label inscription \"(...)aumur\". it probably refers to the french wine region of saumur on the lower reaches of the loire, which is also called the \"rheims of the loire\" in reference to the center of champagne production and in which more than 36 communities still cultivate wine today. the pipe on the table, on the other hand, functions as a personal prop of ploberger, a pipe and cigarette smoker, which he also prominently places, for example, in the self-portrait of the wels city museum, probably painted in 1926/27, in the \"interior with still life\" or even still in the \"still life with sweets, pearl necklace and berlin daily paper\". ploberger's painting also reflects in the still life the artistic currents of the time, which at the beginning of the twenties were characterized by a turning away from expressive emotional expression with a simultaneous return to representationalism and clear external forms. the national pioneers of this development were giorgio de chirico and carlo carrà in italy with their pittura scuola metafisica, derain, picasso, léger, picabia, and rousseau in france, and georg schrimpf, carlo mense, and alexander kanoldt in germany, who responded to the catastrophic consequences of world war i with pictorial indictments in an old-master technique. they were joined by otto dix and george grosz, who processed their apocalyptic war experiences in socially critical paintings. both of the last-mentioned currents - the magical realism represented especially by kanoldt and the verism of otto dix, which reached the limits of the ugly-grotesque - should subsequently be subsumed under the term \"new objectivity. we first encounter this term in 1925 and thus at the time of the creation of this still life by ploberger. at that time, not only gustav friedrich hartlaub in mannheim titled his exhibition \"die neue sachlichkeit. german painting since expressionism, \" but also appeared in leipzig franz roh's book \"nach-expressionismus - magischer realismus. problems of the latest european painting\"."},"estimateMax":250000,"lotNumber":"168","title":{"de":"herbert ploberger* (wels 1902 - 1977 munich)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17367/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":130000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":160000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:30.382Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac150,000 - \u20ac250,000","currency":"EUR","id":17367,"estimateMin":150000},{"startPrice":3000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17368/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17368/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17368/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"fritz grewenig* (hausweiler 1891 - 1974 trier)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"fritz grewenig* \n (hausweiler 1891 - 1974 trier) \n still life with gum tree, 1924 \n oil/canvas, 90,4 x 70,3 cm \n signed f. grewenig and dated 24 \n provenance: karl and faber munich 2020, european private collection \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 4.000 - 8.000 \n \n german painter of the 20th century. representative of magical realism. belongs to the so-called lost or forgotten generation. 1909 to 1911 at the technical school for decorative painting in saarbrücken and 1911 to 1913 training with the saarbrücken painter richard wenzel. from 1913 studies at the royal academy in dresden with richard müller, robert sterl, otto gussmann, gotthardt kuehl and eugen bracht. member of the saarland artists' association. 1924 to 1936 director of the saarland school of arts and crafts. 1937 during the nazi action degenerate art several paintings by him destroyed. from 1942 exhibition ban. 1936 to 1950 lecturer at the werkkunstschule trier, from 1950 at the landeskunstschule mainz. early works influenced by expressionism, partly elements of new objectivity. collected wassily kandinsky and george braque. created mainly genre paintings and floral still lifes with, for example, rubber trees, cacti and lemons."},"estimateMax":8000,"lotNumber":"169","title":{"de":"fritz grewenig* (hausweiler 1891 - 1974 trier)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17368/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":3000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:30.384Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac4,000 - 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of the city of cologne together with hubert berke, severin düx, heinrich hoerle, anton hoch, josef mangold, toni may, irma müller-hermann, hanns rheindorf, c. schreiber, robert seufert, p. h. simon and heinrich von den hoff. created landscapes and portraits but especially still lifes with flowers. \n \n the flower, still life, landscape and portrait painter as well as graphic artist albin edelhoff, who trained in berlin and paris, found his way to the new objectivity after an expressionist phase, in which he specialized mainly in floral still lifes. this example, which is particularly typical of his approach to painting, presents a branch of the flowering common laburnum (laburnum anagyroides) in a reddish-brown vase. it vividly illustrates not only the principles of new objectivity, but also of neo-saxon still life painting. moving slightly to the right from the vertical apex line, edelhof arranges the bright yellow flowering branch along with foliage in a bulbous, red-brown vase in front of a brown-violet surface. like many representatives of neo-objective still life painting, edelhoff does not compose against the edges of the picture and also erases any trace of the painterly working process. moreover, the exclusion of any movement here has the effect that the individual elements of the picture are perceived in isolation and thus appear \"enchanted\", even \"ghostly\". ernst jünger wrote in his \"sicilian letter to the man in the moon\": \"no, the real is just as enchanting as the enchanting is real\". by detaching the individual pictorial elements from their realistic context, a condensation of meaning takes place, which apparently shows itself hidden beyond, behind, or below the deceptively realistic level of the motifs. even in the opening of the pictorial space at the threshold between the interior and the outside world, edelhoff becomes little concrete: it could be an opening to a terrace, for in the background on the right, the painter reveals a view of a river or lake landscape lined by mountain ridges and bordered in the middle ground by a wooded riparian strip. the plain gray ground surface of this window opening accentuates the exposed vase, which is somewhat disproportionate in its perspective drawing and modeling. it is thus somewhat in dissonance with the clearly contoured and detailed blossoms of the laburnum. in edelhoff's case, this can obviously also be traced back to expressionist aftermaths, since new objectivity replaced the expressive deformation and superficial observation of objects with a harmonious purification of forms and a miniature-like or almost microscopic mode of representation. this clumsy-looking vase could therefore still be a relic of one of these expressionist stylistic devices. similar to the illustrations of herbaria made according to scientific criteria, the painter also analyzes the depicted plant, whose plant parts are all poisonous and which is also known in german-speaking countries as baumbohnen, bohnenbaum, falscher oder deutscher falscher ebenbaum, hosen and schoontjes (east frisia) or kleebaum and markweiden. here, edelhoff achieves a metallic clarity while hardening the colors and purity of the local colorite when painting flowers, foliage and vase. his coloring is characterized by a disciplining force that also speaks from the cold rigidity of this still life and at the same time touches on a developmental phenomenon of neue sachlichkeit. the movement that was usually latent in expressionism has here been transformed into an austere stillness or a tense persistence. moreover, the picture glows and dawns through constant, very gradual swelling and falling of the shading, resulting in a sonorous modeling. through the clarifying as well as deepening mode of representation, even the floral is degraded to a sober, austere and puristic object of the world of things. nothing is treated summarily by edelhoff. everything primal - such as the landscape superimposed in the background, which can only be vaguely localized topographically - is subjected to a process of cultivation, and thus the almost old master-like river or lake landscape with its glassy, rigid water surface becomes a purist world landscape. edelhoff, who always remained deliberately apolitical and served as a soldier on the western and eastern fronts during world war i, only found his way to new objectivity via an expressionist phase. in 1937 he moved into the yellow house in cologne-raderthal, which served as a studio for the city of cologne and where other regionally important artists such as hubert berke, severin düx and josef mangold also lived and worked. when the national socialist regime came to power, he tried to make ends meet with wood and linocut art, which was particularly popular at the time, and in which he now portrayed german cities and landscapes. after the end of the war and his marriage to the much younger music student hildegard blatt, who came from rhaunen in the hunsrück region, he went on painting trips to italy, north africa, greece and france, where he recorded his travel impressions on location in watercolors."},"estimateMax":8000,"lotNumber":"170","title":{"de":"albin edelhoff* (mengeringhausen 1887 - 1974 rhaunen)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17369/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":3000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:30.386Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac4,000 - \u20ac8,000","currency":"EUR","id":17369,"estimateMin":4000},{"startPrice":4000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17370/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17370/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17370/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"albert reuss* (vienna 1889 - 1975 mousehole, 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early influences of gustav klimt and egon schiele, then influences of expressive carinthian painting. after emigration, development of style in the direction of new objectivity and surrealism. landscapes with figures and individual objects in increasingly cool and restrained colors and monochrome surfaces. colorfulness, mysteriousness and the static, frontal posture of the female torso comparable to works by paul delvaux. composition and mood, calm, melancholy and contemplation comparable similar in the works of josef floch. \n \n albert reuss, son of a jewish butcher (named reiss) in budapest, went to vienna against his father's wishes at the age of 18 to become an artist. he studied the works of the great masters in the viennese museums, but remained self-taught. his style in those years was expressive, with an impasto application of paint and a lively color palette. in 1930 a patron made it possible for him to spend a year on the french riviera. the landscapes, still lifes and figure paintings created there were exhibited in 1931 in the würthle gallery in vienna, where reuss had already shown a collective exhibition in 1926, at that time under the patronage of the society for the promotion of modern art. in 1932 the artist became a member of the hagenbund, but emigrated to england in 1938 because of increasing pressure from the nazi regime. there he exhibited in provincial galleries with little success and, due to the indifference of the gallery owners and the public, retreated to the countryside in cornwall, where he continued to work intensively on his paintings. his pictures became increasingly heavy in content and revealed his mental state at this time. he himself called the fruits of his labor \"images of loneliness\". in 1975 these works were shown at the bawag foundation in vienna."},"estimateMax":8000,"lotNumber":"171","title":{"de":"albert reuss* (vienna 1889 - 1975 mousehole, 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artist 1934, private collection usa, parke-bernet galleries new york 1964, private collection london, koller auction switzerland 2010, european private collection \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 100.000 - 150.000 \n \n american painter of the 20th century. important representative of classical modernism in the usa and american realism. from 1896 at the cleveland school of arts, from 1899 art studies at the chase school and the national academy of design in the master class of william merritt chase in new york. studied the painting technique of giovanni segantini. 1909 contact with photographer and gallerist alfred stieglitz, organized exhibition at his gallery 291. 1912 trip to europe, in paris in the circle of patron gertrude stein and sculptor arnold rönnebeck. studied there the works of paul cezanne, pablo picasso and henri matisse. in 1913 in berlin contact with the german avant-garde, the blue rider, intensive exchange with wassily kandinsky and franz marc and involvement with cubism and orphism. from 1921 secretary of the art society s. dreier, founded by marcel duchamp, man ray and the collector katherine s. dreier, and the art society société anonyme. \n \n this painting is an excellent example of the creative power of the american avant-garde, which is oriented away from styles of european modernism and transforming them into their own vocabulary."},"estimateMax":150000,"lotNumber":"172","title":{"de":"marsden hartley (lewiston, maine 1877 - 1943 ellsworth, maine)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17371/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":80000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:32.488Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac100,000 - 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karlinsky, georg anton adams-teltscher, gertraud brausewetter, margarete hamerschlag, erika giovanna klien, elisabeth karlinsky, paul kirnig, friedericke nechansky, gertrude neuwirth, ernst anton plischke, johanna reismayer, ludwig reutterer, leopold wolfgang rochowanski, emil stejnar, hertha sladky, harry täuber, gertrude tomaschek, otto erich wagner, stella weissenberg. from the 1920s, he turned away from kinetism and toward representational painting and the new objectivity. \n \n since kinetism represents the first art movement of modernism whose most important representatives were female, the male ones form a minority. and since kinetism is less a \"movement\" than a teaching method, many of the artistic examples from franz cižek's theory of forms and his legendary children's and youth art classes are student drawings that have an incredible formal precision in common, but whose authors are mostly completely unknown and have often remained anonymous. paul kirnig's crystalline forms are the means of expression of that metaphor of light and crystal which kinetism as a special form of cubism. a first impression of the cubist formal language could be gained understood in 1914 in the first comprehensive picasso exhibition in the miethke gallery in vienna. the contemporary writer and art mediator leopold wolfgang rochowanski recognised early on that cižek's cubism was \"different\" from picasso's and arrives at the quintessence: \"cubism, says professor cižek, is the crystalline expression of libidinously urgent design energies\". kirnig not only analyses crystalline forms here, but brings them to break under an imaginary pressure, thus creating that chaos which, according to rochowansky, was also calculated into cižek's working methods: \"the lesson (oh old word!) begins with the invitation to give oneself without restraint, with the unbridled wildness of existing energies. the result: chaos. but the very next lesson calls: reflection. and the next increase is called: 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3.000 \n \n austrian artist of the 20th century. representative of the viennese avant-garde, non-objective painting and kinetism. studied from 1925 to 1930 at the school of applied arts with franz cizek, berthold löffler, erich mallina and victor schufinsky. worked in the studio of graphic designer josef binder from 1931. 1947 to 1949 studied architecture with clemens holzmeister and erich boltenstern. designed covers for magazines and posters. involvement with expressionism, cubism and futurism. counts among the viennese kinetists as do erika giovanna klien, my ullmann, paul kirnig, elisabeth karlinsky, georg anton adams-teltscher, gertraud brausewetter, margarete hamerschlag, erika giovanna klien, elisabeth karlinsky, paul kirnig, friedericke nechansky, gertrude neuwirth, ernst anton plischke, johanna reismayer, ludwig reutterer, leopold wolfgang rochowanski, emil stejnar, hertha sladky, harry täuber, gertrude tomaschek, otto erich wagner, stella weissenberg. \n \n from 1925 to 1930 peter tölzer studied at the vienna school of applied arts under schufinsky, mallina, cižek and löffler. from 1931 he worked in the studio of josef binder. tölzer was drafted during the second world war and became a prisoner of war. after the war, tölzer studied architecture with clemens holzmeister and erich boltenstern from 1947 to 1949. during this time, tölzer mainly earned his living by designing numerous covers of the magazine \"die frau\". from 1949 tölzer designed election posters for the spö. in cooperation with his wife maria tölzer, he designed the apartment building 185 eisenstadtplatz in vienna's 10th district and the ernst-papanek-hof in vienna's 15th district. in the juxtaposition of cubist, futurist and kinetic works by forces as different as otto erich wagner, otto rudolf schatz and the much younger peter tölzer, the most diverse possibilities of abstraction in the broad cubist repertoire of forms can be read. in addition to figurative drawings of classical tasks of traditional art academies - nude painting and still life - this confrontation of post-cubist modernism also documents the development from the expressive-crystalline to the constructive. peter tölzer's nature studies of meadow flowers also familiarise us with the tradition of classical austrian modernism, which is characterised by a duality between realistic sketching and abstracted execution. tölzer's sketch sheets are graphic inventories, momentary analyses, on the basis of which the focus and structure of the pictorial construction is developed and only in a further step is abstracted painterly, as robin christian andersen, for example, taught his students at the vienna art academy from 1945 onwards. the artist deconstructs the plant structure of the flowers and extracts from it the formal essence that contains cubist elements as well as sculptural-architectural ones."},"estimateMax":3000,"lotNumber":"174","title":{"de":"peter tölzer* (vienna 1910 - 1997 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studied from 1925 to 1930 at the school of applied arts with franz cizek, berthold löffler, erich mallina and victor schufinsky. worked in the studio of graphic designer josef binder from 1931. 1947 to 1949 studied architecture with clemens holzmeister and erich boltenstern. designed covers for magazines and posters. involvement with expressionism, cubism and futurism. counts among the viennese kinetists as do erika giovanna klien, my ullmann, paul kirnig, elisabeth karlinsky, georg anton adams-teltscher, gertraud brausewetter, margarete hamerschlag, erika giovanna klien, elisabeth karlinsky, paul kirnig, friedericke nechansky, gertrude neuwirth, ernst anton plischke, johanna reismayer, ludwig reutterer, leopold wolfgang rochowanski, emil stejnar, hertha sladky, harry täuber, gertrude tomaschek, otto erich wagner, stella weissenberg. \n \n from 1925 to 1930 peter tölzer studied at the vienna school of applied arts under schufinsky, mallina, cižek and löffler. from 1931 he worked in the studio of josef binder. tölzer was drafted during the second world war and became a prisoner of war. after the war, tölzer studied architecture with clemens holzmeister and erich boltenstern from 1947 to 1949. during this time, tölzer mainly earned his living by designing numerous covers of the magazine \"die frau\". from 1949 tölzer designed election posters for the spö. in cooperation with his wife maria tölzer, he designed the apartment building 185 eisenstadtplatz in vienna's 10th district and the ernst-papanek-hof in vienna's 15th district. in the juxtaposition of cubist, futurist and kinetic works by forces as different as otto erich wagner, otto rudolf schatz and the much younger peter tölzer, the most diverse possibilities of abstraction in the broad cubist repertoire of forms can be read. in addition to figurative drawings of classical tasks of traditional art academies - nude painting and still life - this confrontation of post-cubist modernism also documents the development from the expressive-crystalline to the constructive. peter tölzer's nature studies of meadow flowers also familiarise us with the tradition of classical austrian modernism, which is characterised by a duality between realistic sketching and abstracted execution. tölzer's sketch sheets are graphic inventories, momentary analyses, on the basis of which the focus and structure of the pictorial construction is developed and only in a further step is abstracted painterly, as robin christian andersen, for example, taught his students at the vienna art academy from 1945 onwards. the artist deconstructs the plant structure of the flowers and extracts from it the formal essence that contains cubist elements as well as sculptural-architectural ones."},"estimateMax":1000,"lotNumber":"175","title":{"de":"paul kirnig* (bielitz 1891 - 1955 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1930 at the school of applied arts with franz cizek, berthold löffler, erich mallina and victor schufinsky. worked in the studio of graphic designer josef binder from 1931. 1947 to 1949 studied architecture with clemens holzmeister and erich boltenstern. designed covers for magazines and posters. involvement with expressionism, cubism and futurism. counts among the viennese kinetists as do erika giovanna klien, my ullmann, paul kirnig, elisabeth karlinsky, georg anton adams-teltscher, gertraud brausewetter, margarete hamerschlag, erika giovanna klien, elisabeth karlinsky, paul kirnig, friedericke nechansky, gertrude neuwirth, ernst anton plischke, johanna reismayer, ludwig reutterer, leopold wolfgang rochowanski, emil stejnar, hertha sladky, harry täuber, gertrude tomaschek, otto erich wagner, stella weissenberg. \n \n from 1925 to 1930 peter tölzer studied at the vienna school of applied arts under schufinsky, mallina, cižek and löffler. from 1931 he worked in the studio of josef binder. tölzer was drafted during the second world war and became a prisoner of war. after the war, tölzer studied architecture with clemens holzmeister and erich boltenstern from 1947 to 1949. during this time, tölzer mainly earned his living by designing numerous covers of the magazine \"die frau\". from 1949 tölzer designed election posters for the spö. in cooperation with his wife maria tölzer, he designed the apartment building 185 eisenstadtplatz in vienna's 10th district and the ernst-papanek-hof in vienna's 15th district. in the juxtaposition of cubist, futurist and kinetic works by forces as different as otto erich wagner, otto rudolf schatz and the much younger peter tölzer, the most diverse possibilities of abstraction in the broad cubist repertoire of forms can be read. in addition to figurative drawings of classical tasks of traditional art academies - nude painting and still life - this confrontation of post-cubist modernism also documents the development from the expressive-crystalline to the constructive. peter tölzer's nature studies of meadow flowers also familiarise us with the tradition of classical austrian modernism, which is characterised by a duality between realistic sketching and abstracted execution. tölzer's sketch sheets are graphic inventories, momentary analyses, on the basis of which the focus and structure of the pictorial construction is developed and only in a further step is abstracted painterly, as robin christian andersen, for example, taught his students at the vienna art academy from 1945 onwards. the artist deconstructs the plant structure of the flowers and extracts from it the formal essence that contains cubist elements as well as sculptural-architectural ones."},"estimateMax":1200,"lotNumber":"176","title":{"de":"peter tölzer* (vienna 1910 - 1997 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non-objective painting and kinetism, close to international constructivism. from 1921 at the vienna school of applied arts with carl witzmann, franz čižek, reinhold klaus and eugen gustav steinhof. interested in theater and revue sets, created textile designs for the backhausen company and photomontages for the thonet company. stage and costume designs for a theater in munich and the lucerne festival in switzerland. involvement with expressionism, cubism and futurism, with aspects of movement, dance, dynamics and change. counts among the viennese kinetists as well as erika giovanna klien, peter tölzer, paul kirnig, elisabeth karlinsky, georg anton adams-teltscher, gertraud brausewetter, margarete hamerschlag, erika giovanna klien, elisabeth karlinsky, paul kirnig, friedericke nechansky, gertrude neuwirth, ernst anton plischke, johanna reismayer, ludwig reutterer, leopold wolfgang rochowanski, emil stejnar, hertha sladky, harry täuber, gertrude tomaschek, otto erich wagner, stella 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kinetismus, belvedere vienna 2011, p. 107 \n provenance: private collection vienna \n \n \n estimate \u20ac 3.000 - 6.000 \n \n austrian artist of the 20th century. representative of the viennese avant-garde, non-objective painting and kinetism. studied at the school of applied arts from 1922 under franz cizek and rudolf larisch. worked as a painter and graphic artist, also assistant teacher at cizek's class for general theory of forms. member of the vienna secession. influenced by cubism and futurism, including artists such as giacomo balla, el lissitzky, johannes itten, and robert delaunay. counts among the viennese kinetists as do erika giovanna klien, peter tölzer, paul kirnig, elisabeth karlinsky, georg anton adams-teltscher, gertraud brausewetter, margarete hamerschlag, erika giovanna klien, elisabeth karlinsky, paul kirnig, friedericke nechansky, gertrude neuwirth, ernst anton plischke, johanna reismayer, ludwig reutterer, leopold wolfgang rochowanski, emil stejnar, hertha sladky, harry täuber, gertrude tomaschek, my ullmann, stella weissenberg. \n \n otto erich wagner, who came from klepacov-blansko in moravia, graduated from the teacher training college in vienna between 1919 and 1923 and also took classes at the vienna school of applied arts from 1922 to 1924 with franz cižek and rudolf larisch. together with elisabeth karlinsky, erika giovanna klien, my ullmann, karl steiner and alois wachsmann - to name just a few of the main representatives - he was one of the abstract artists in austria in the interwar period. those who dealt with abstraction during this period were mostly punished with disregard, as the doctrine of representationalism dominated the domestic art scene. it was thanks to the teaching of franz cižek and his course in ornamental form theory that the tendencies towards abstraction, which had already begun in france and italy before the first world war, were now also seriously considered in austria as a stylistic alternative to the prevailing representational mode of representation. otto erich wagner, who was a friend of egon schiele and only became a member of the vienna secession in 1949, rose to become one of the most important representatives of viennese kinetism. this dominant viennese art movement of the 1920s was based on italian futurism and attempted to translate movement rhythms and sounds into the two-dimensionality of the picture plane. the term \"kinetism\" is derived from the greek kinesis, meaning movement, and was first used in 1922. however, because very few of cižek's students went on to work in the vienna workshops or other companies, this art movement disappeared from the scene again a few years later, also for reasons of contemporary politics. thus, in wagner's kinetic oeuvre, inspiration from the art of giacomo balla, johannes itten, franz marc, picasso and kandinsky, robert delaunay or el lissitzky repeatedly shimmers through. the virtuosically abstracted sheet makes it particularly clear how closely some kinetists oriented themselves to those geometric-abstract forms that in cubism break down phenomena of the visible world into arbitrary components and in futurism translate the experiences of movement and rhythm into a pictorial language."},"estimateMax":6000,"lotNumber":"178","title":{"de":"otto erich wagner* (klepacov 1895 - 1979 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17377/view","tags":["daFineart_DrawingsandPastels","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":3000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":3600,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:32.507Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac3,000 - \u20ac6,000","currency":"EUR","id":17377,"estimateMin":3000},{"startPrice":600,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17378/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17378/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"johanna panigl* (cieszyn 1905 - 1995 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1927, which at that time was still closely associated with the museum of applied arts. this already had a tradition in the 1920s as one of the cradles of viennese art nouveau. among the curators and teachers were otto wagner, kolo moser and josef hoffmann. johanna panigl-schön attended the architecture class of the latter, as well as general nude drawing with erich mallina and the ornament course of franz cižek. it was probably at this time that she met her future husband, the architect karl panigl. the three ornamental works \"leaves, blossoms and fruits\", \"tree trunks\" and \"small judges\" that emerge from this training context are designs for wallpaper and fabrics on tracing paper. johanna panigl-schön works out the pictorial patterns with meticulous perfection and great attention to detail. a tangle of intersecting paths, riders and horse-drawn carriages evokes movement, while at the same time the regularity and orderliness catch the eye. the artist thus maintains a sensitive balance between pattern and image. the special aesthetics of the plant pictures also arise from the combination of plant motifs with flat patterns in the infield, thus avoiding three-dimensionality despite figurative echoes. these particularly imaginative and playful works also reveal the influence of josef frank, who as a designer strives for modern individuality and a combination of practical functionality with elegance and homeliness. the works from franz cižek's widely acclaimed youth art courses, such as the course on ornamental form, were also shown in england, the usa, south africa and india from the 1920s onwards. johanna panigl-schön's work stands in this large international context. in the 1940s she worked as an illustrator for children's books. today, only a few works by johanna panigl-schön are known."},"estimateMax":1200,"lotNumber":"179","title":{"de":"johanna panigl* (cieszyn 1905 - 1995 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century. studied at the vienna school of applied arts from 1920 to 1927, attended architecture class with josef hoffmann, nude drawing with erich mallina and ornament class with fraz cizek. married architect karl panigl, who studied with josef hoffmann and josef frank. created designs of fabrics, wallpapers and illustrations for children's books. early influences of art nouveau, influence of josef frank visible in the imaginative and playful works. ornaments, plants, trees, flowers, leaves are drawn as patterns across the paper. \n \n johanna panigl-schön studied at the vienna school of applied arts from 1920 to 1927, which at that time was still closely associated with the museum of applied arts. this already had a tradition in the 1920s as one of the cradles of viennese art nouveau. among the curators and teachers were otto wagner, kolo moser and josef hoffmann. johanna panigl-schön attended the architecture class of the latter, as well as general nude drawing with erich mallina and the ornament course of franz cižek. it was probably at this time that she met her future husband, the architect karl panigl. the three ornamental works \"leaves, blossoms and fruits\", \"tree trunks\" and \"small judges\" that emerge from this training context are designs for wallpaper and fabrics on tracing paper. johanna panigl-schön works out the pictorial patterns with meticulous perfection and great attention to detail. a tangle of intersecting paths, riders and horse-drawn carriages evokes movement, while at the same time the regularity and orderliness catch the eye. the artist thus maintains a sensitive balance between pattern and image. the special aesthetics of the plant pictures also arise from the combination of plant motifs with flat patterns in the infield, thus avoiding three-dimensionality despite figurative echoes. these particularly imaginative and playful works also reveal the influence of josef frank, who as a designer strives for modern individuality and a combination of practical functionality with elegance and homeliness. the works from franz cižek's widely acclaimed youth art courses, such as the course on ornamental form, were also shown in england, the usa, south africa and india from the 1920s onwards. johanna panigl-schön's work stands in this large international context. in the 1940s she worked as an illustrator for children's books. today, only a few works by johanna panigl-schön are known."},"estimateMax":1200,"lotNumber":"180","title":{"de":"johanna panigl* (cieszyn 1905 - 1995 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17379/view","tags":["daFineart_MixedMedia","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":600,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":900,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:32.518Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac800 - 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wallpapers and illustrations for children's books. early influences of art nouveau, influence of josef frank visible in the imaginative and playful works. ornaments, plants, trees, flowers, leaves are drawn as patterns across the paper. \n \n johanna panigl-schön studied at the vienna school of applied arts from 1920 to 1927, which at that time was still closely associated with the museum of applied arts. this already had a tradition in the 1920s as one of the cradles of viennese art nouveau. among the curators and teachers were otto wagner, kolo moser and josef hoffmann. johanna panigl-schön attended the architecture class of the latter, as well as general nude drawing with erich mallina and the ornament course of franz cižek. it was probably at this time that she met her future husband, the architect karl panigl. the three ornamental works \"leaves, blossoms and fruits\", \"tree trunks\" and \"small judges\" that emerge from this training context are designs for wallpaper and fabrics on tracing paper. johanna panigl-schön works out the pictorial patterns with meticulous perfection and great attention to detail. a tangle of intersecting paths, riders and horse-drawn carriages evokes movement, while at the same time the regularity and orderliness catch the eye. the artist thus maintains a sensitive balance between pattern and image. the special aesthetics of the plant pictures also arise from the combination of plant motifs with flat patterns in the infield, thus avoiding three-dimensionality despite figurative echoes. these particularly imaginative and playful works also reveal the influence of josef frank, who as a designer strives for modern individuality and a combination of practical functionality with elegance and homeliness. the works from franz cižek's widely acclaimed youth art courses, such as the course on ornamental form, were also shown in england, the usa, south africa and india from the 1920s onwards. johanna panigl-schön's work stands in this large 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ronget-bohm* (konitz 1899 - 1980 paris)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"elisabeth ronget-bohm* \n (konitz 1899 - 1980 paris) \n still life, 1929 \n oil/fiber board, 58,5 x 69 cm \n signed e. ronget and dated 29 \n provenance: rossini paris 2021, european private collection \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 1.000 - 2.000 \n \n german-french painter of the 20th century. representative of the so-called lost or lost generation. she came from a jewish family in what was then west prussia; her parents were murdered in the theresienstadt concentration camp. from 1913 at the school of arts and crafts in hanover with ludwig vierthaler, then studied at the academy of fine arts in vienna. studied at the bauhaus in weimar and from 1926 in berlin. contact with the novembergruppe artists' group and involvement with works by the blaue reiter group. from 1931 in paris, studied at the académie de la grande chaumière. designed advertising posters and fabrics for french fashion houses. acquainted with andré lhote through her husband paul ronget, exhibited at the paris salon d'automne. in early work influences of cubism comparable to george braque, pablo picasso and andré lhote, intense involvement with paul cezanne."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"182","title":{"de":"elisabeth ronget-bohm* (konitz 1899 - 1980 paris)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17381/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":1000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:35.689Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,000 - \u20ac2,000","currency":"EUR","id":17381,"estimateMin":1000},{"startPrice":2000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17382/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17382/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17382/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"axl leskoschek* (graz 1889 - 1976 vienna)"},"soldDate":"2022-05-19","available":false,"description":{"de":"axl leskoschek* \n (graz 1889 - 1976 vienna) \n still life with flowers, 1951 \n oil/canvas, 100,5 x 70 cm \n signed a les, monogrammed al and dated 51 \n provenance: gallery ciwna, fine arts widder vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 2.000 - 3.000 \n \n austrian painter of the 20th century, especially of the interwar period. main representative of the modern and avant-garde in styria. studied at the landeskunstschule in graz under alfred schrötter and from 1921 to 1923 at the graphische lehr- und versuchsanstalt in vienna under alfred cossmann. cultural editor at the social democratic newspaper arbeiterwille, from 1920 also book illustrator. 1919 co-founder of the werkbund freiland, 1923 grazer secession. fled to switzerland via italy in 1938 with the architect and resistance fighter herbert eichholzer. 1941 to 1948 exile in brazil, professor at the academy in rio de janeiro. 1948 return to austria. active in vienna as a painter, graphic artist and theater critic. early influences from art nouveau and expressionism, later interest in medieval woodcuts. created colorful oil paintings and watercolors, southern landscapes and nudes, also exotic floral still lifes with calla and parrot flower reminiscent of his time in south america. \n \n the painter, graphic artist and illustrator axl leskoschek was born in graz as the son of a field marshal lieutenant and completed his legal training with a doctorate in 1917 - in the middle of the first world war. immediately afterwards he was ordered to the front as a lieutenant pilot, from which he returned severely wounded. under the impression of this drastic war experience, he renounced a career in law and began to study at the landeskunstschule graz with alfred schrötter and at the grafische lehr- und versuchsanstalt in vienna. with his woodcuts to the \"legends of st. francis\" he founded a series of illustrations to world literature in 1920, became a co-founder of the werkbund \"freiland\" (1919) and the graz secession (1923). at the same time, he developed his keen awareness of the political upheavals of this time of change, during which he also worked for the social democratic daily newspaper \"arbeiterwille\" as cultural editor until 1934. as early as 1920, he produced his first book illustrated with woodcuts, which was to be followed by more than 50 other books until his death. it was mainly expressionist pictures with which leskoschek appeared in public at the beginning of his career. however, he was not only active as a painter, wood engraver and carver, but also - between 1928 and 1931 - as a stage designer at the municipal theatre in augsburg and as a political activist. as a member of the schutzbund he took part in the bloody workers' uprising in february 1934, for which reason he joined the illegal kpö after a short imprisonment and was again imprisoned in the detention camp wöllersdorf in 1936/37. during his imprisonment he created an extensive series of allegorical sheets in an expressive-surreal style. in 1938 he managed to escape from the nazi regime just in time. together with the architect herbert eichholzer, he fled via trieste to switzerland, from where he escaped into exile in brazil in 1940 together with his wife, whom he had met there. there he produced a series of oil paintings, watercolours, linocuts and woodcuts, pochoirs, lithographs and etchings. he also taught woodcut and composition at the academy of fine arts in rio de janeiro and thus became the teacher of a whole generation of brazilian artists. it was not until 1948 that he returned to austria, where he became a communist activist for realism in art during the cold war and his work was officially hardly noticed. it was only through international exhibitions in the 1960s that he was able to gain some notoriety, while in austria exhibitions such as the one in 1954 on the theme of \"art and resistance\" were boycotted. shortly before - in 1952 - he also created this innocuous floral still life with the exotic red flamingo flowers, which at the same time reminded leskoschek of his beloved adopted country brazil: the anthurium comes from the tropical rainforests of colombia, guatemala and the amazon region in brazil. leskoschek also adds a flower of the bird of paradise, which is native to south africa. leskoschek excellently accentuates this exotic floral splendour against the silky, shimmering, silvery white background in a late expressionist manner. the brilliant effect is further enhanced by the large form. leskoschek himself only became the focus of initial honours and exhibitions in graz and vienna in 1971 and 1974 respectively after he left the communist party in reaction to the bloody suppression of the prague spring in august 1968, only to fall into oblivion again soon afterwards. shortly before his death in 1976, he confessed that it had been the biggest mistake of his life to leave brazil in 1948, when he already had so many friends and students there. he returned, he bitterly summed up, to his homeland as a country where he remained unknown, almost anonymous."},"estimateMax":3000,"lotNumber":"183","title":{"de":"axl leskoschek* (graz 1889 - 1976 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17382/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":2000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":2400,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:35.692Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,000 - 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estimate °\u20ac 15.000 - 30.000 \n \n austrian painter and stage designer of the 20th century especially the interwar period. representatives of tyrolean modernism such as artur nikodem, ernst nepo, wilhelm n. prachensky, hans tyrol-weber, etc. stylistic development between expressionism and new objectivity. nephew of the sculptors emil and gustav gurschner. attended the school of applied arts in innsbruck and studied at the academy of fine arts in munich from 1918 to 1920. in 1920 he lived in mühlau in innsbruck, exhibited with the mühlau circle around alfons schnegg, rudolf lehnert and ernst nepo. early 1920s landscapes and cityscapes from travels through tyrol, salzburg and italy. 1924 married the english noblewoman dolores cherwadsky-damarkow, established contacts with london artist and collector circles. 1929 first exhibition at the london fine art society. contacts with aristocratic, diplomatic and business circles, exhibitions in london and new york. married his second wife brenda davidoff. in addition to landscapes and portraits, also created commissioned works such as this large-scale depiction of animals with flamingos and dragonflies, comparable to the animal friezes by ludwig heinrich jungnickel. \n \n gurschner's talent for painting became apparent at an early age. in 1918 he was accepted as the youngest student at the academy in munich. from 1920 he lived in the mühlau district of innsbruck and exhibited together with the other artists of the \"mühlau circle\", nepo, schnegg and lehnert. from 1925 onwards he travelled extensively in italy, spain and france, exhibited at the venice biennale and had an acclaimed solo show at the london fine art society in 1929. in 1931, the tate gallery purchased his \"annunciation\". gurschner lived from numerous portrait commissions and thus moved in aristocratic, diplomatic and business circles. in 1938 he went into exile in london, where he met his second wife brenda. after the war, gurschner turned to stage 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in vienna at the technical university and with otto wagner at the academy. after graduating, laske began practical work in the cottage association with building director hermann müller, and a year later continued his architectural studies at the academy of fine arts with otto wagner. laske joined his father's construction company in 1901 and worked there in the field of residential building architecture, built villas and country houses in vienna and the surrounding area as well as factories and was considered a sought-after interior decorator. however, in 1904 laske decided to pursue an artistic career as an autodidact. in 1907 he joined the hagenbund and in 1924 the vienna secession, where he was regularly represented in exhibitions. even before the outbreak of the first world war, laske embarked on extensive painting and study trips that took him through europe, the middle east and north africa. during the war, laske first served as an officer in galicia and subsequently on the particularly bloody isonzo front. later he became a k. u. k. (\u201cimperial and royal\u201d, referring to the habsburgs dual monarchy austria-hungary) war painter. this watercolor belongs to the series of rural genre paintings by laske. such views of laske come from the precarious years during the second world war, also for this artist, in which oskar laske embarked on a kind of \u201cinner emigration\u201d. however, as far as circumstances allowed him, he maintained the spiritual and intellectual private circle in his house that had built up over the decades. from this time on, his extensive travel activity also decreased, and he concentrated on views of vienna and the surrounding area, in which he remained true to his compositional idiosyncrasies."},"estimateMax":6000,"lotNumber":"185","title":{"de":"oskar laske (czernowitz 1874 - 1951 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17384/view","tags":["daFineart_Watercolors","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":3500,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:35.709Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac4,000 - \u20ac6,000","currency":"EUR","id":17384,"estimateMin":4000},{"startPrice":2000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17385/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17385/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"oskar laske (czernowitz 1874 - 1951 vienna)"},"soldDate":"2022-05-19","available":false,"description":{"de":"oskar laske \n (czernowitz 1874 - 1951 vienna) \n altaussee \n gouache/paper, 38,4 x 30 cm \n signed o. laske and titled altaussee \n provenance: private collection usa, fine arts widder vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 2.000 - 4.000 \n \n austrian painter, graphic artist, book illustrator and architect of the 20th century, especially of the interwar period. studied architecture at the academy under otto wagner. apart from a course in landscape painting with anton hlavacek, self-taught painter. from 1905 member of the jungbund, from 1907 member of the hagenbund, from 1924 in the vienna secession and from 1928 in the künstlerhaus. travels through europe to north america. early landscapes and cityscapes with infusions of atmospheric impressionism. created biblical, historical and genre scenes, with a preference for narrative and multi-figure representations. imaginative, detailed and humorous with an expressive yet sensitive use of color. \n \n oskar laske, 1874 as the eldest son of the architect oskar laske senior and his wife xavera, daughter of the czernowitz master builder anton fiala, first studied architecture in vienna at the technical university and with otto wagner at the academy. after graduating, laske began practical work in the cottage association with building director hermann müller, and a year later continued his architectural studies at the academy of fine arts with otto wagner. laske joined his father's construction company in 1901 and worked there in the field of residential building architecture, built villas and country houses in vienna and the surrounding area as well as factories and was considered a sought-after interior decorator. however, in 1904 laske decided to pursue an artistic career as an autodidact. in 1907 he joined the hagenbund and in 1924 the vienna secession, where he was regularly represented in exhibitions. even before the outbreak of the first world war, laske embarked on extensive painting and study trips that took him through europe, the middle east and north africa. during the war, laske first served as an officer in galicia and subsequently on the particularly bloody isonzo front. later he became a k. u. k. (\u201cimperial and royal\u201d, referring to the habsburgs dual monarchy austria-hungary) war painter. this watercolor belongs to the series of rural genre paintings by laske. such views of laske come from the precarious years during the second world war, also for this artist, in which oskar laske embarked on a kind of \u201cinner emigration\u201d. however, as far as circumstances allowed him, he maintained the spiritual and intellectual private circle in his house that had built up over the decades. from this time on, his extensive travel activity also decreased, and he concentrated on views of vienna and the surrounding area, in which he remained true to his compositional idiosyncrasies."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"186","title":{"de":"oskar laske (czernowitz 1874 - 1951 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17385/view","tags":["daFineart_Watercolors","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":2000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":2000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:35.711Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,000 - \u20ac4,000","currency":"EUR","id":17385,"estimateMin":2000},{"startPrice":50000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17386/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17386/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17386/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"oskar laske (czernowitz 1874 - 1951 vienna)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"oskar laske \n (czernowitz 1874 - 1951 vienna) \n spring, around 1920 \n oil tempera/paper, 95 x 117 cm \n signed o. laske and titled der frühling opus xxi \n verso label ver sacrum (frühling) tempera \n exhibited at künstlerhaus wien 1952, n. 1328 \n provenance: private collection vienna, fine arts widder, auction im kinsky 2009, private collection \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 50.000 - 100.000 \n \n austrian painter, graphic artist, book illustrator and architect of the 20th century, especially of the interwar period. studied architecture at the academy under otto wagner. apart from a course in landscape painting with anton hlavacek, self-taught painter. from 1905 member of the jungbund, from 1907 member of the hagenbund, from 1924 in the vienna secession and from 1928 in the künstlerhaus. travels through europe to north america. early landscapes and cityscapes with infusions of atmospheric impressionism. created biblical, historical and genre scenes, with a preference for narrative and multi-figure representations. imaginative, detailed and humorous with an expressive yet sensitive use of color. \n \n oskar laske, 1874 as the eldest son of the architect oskar laske senior and his wife xavera, daughter of the czernowitz master builder anton fiala, first studied architecture in vienna at the technical university and with otto wagner at the academy. after graduating, laske began practical work in the cottage association with building director hermann müller, and a year later continued his architectural studies at the academy of fine arts with otto wagner. laske joined his father's construction company in 1901 and worked there in the field of residential building architecture, built villas and country houses in vienna and the surrounding area as well as factories and was considered a sought-after interior decorator. however, in 1904 laske decided to pursue an artistic career as an autodidact. in 1907 he joined the hagenbund and in 1924 the vienna secession, where he was regularly represented in exhibitions. even before the outbreak of the first world war, laske embarked on extensive painting and study trips that took him through europe, the middle east and north africa. during the war, laske first served as an officer in galicia and subsequently on the particularly bloody isonzo front. later he became a k. u. k. (\u201cimperial and royal\u201d, referring to the habsburgs dual monarchy austria-hungary) war painter. this watercolor belongs to the series of rural genre paintings by laske. such views of laske come from the precarious years during the second world war, also for this artist, in which oskar laske embarked on a kind of \u201cinner emigration\u201d. however, as far as circumstances allowed him, he maintained the spiritual and intellectual private circle in his house that had built up over the decades. from this time on, his extensive travel activity also decreased, and he concentrated on views of vienna and the surrounding area, in which he remained true to his compositional idiosyncrasies."},"estimateMax":100000,"lotNumber":"187","title":{"de":"oskar laske (czernowitz 1874 - 1951 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17386/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":50000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:35.717Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac50,000 - \u20ac100,000","currency":"EUR","id":17386,"estimateMin":50000},{"startPrice":3000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17387/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17387/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"oskar laske (czernowitz 1874 - 1951 vienna)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"oskar laske \n (czernowitz 1874 - 1951 vienna) \n nicolo and krampus, 1940 \n watercolor and pencil/paper, 18 x 18,5 cm \n dated 1940 and inscribed für die kleine lili zum nicolo 1940 aki \n depicted in hagenbund, vienna 2019, p. 49, n. 126 \n provenance: lili gregor, fine arts widder \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 3.000 - 6.000 \n \n austrian painter, graphic artist, book illustrator and architect of the 20th century, especially of the interwar period. studied architecture at the academy under otto wagner. apart from a course in landscape painting with anton hlavacek, self-taught painter. from 1905 member of the jungbund, from 1907 member of the hagenbund, from 1924 in the vienna secession and from 1928 in the künstlerhaus. travels through europe to north america. early landscapes and cityscapes with infusions of atmospheric impressionism. created biblical, historical and genre scenes, with a preference for narrative and multi-figure representations. imaginative, detailed and humorous with an expressive yet sensitive use of color. \n \n oskar laske, 1874 as the eldest son of the architect oskar laske senior and his wife xavera, daughter of the czernowitz master builder anton fiala, first studied architecture in vienna at the technical university and with otto wagner at the academy. after graduating, laske began practical work in the cottage association with building director hermann müller, and a year later continued his architectural studies at the academy of fine arts with otto wagner. laske joined his father's construction company in 1901 and worked there in the field of residential building architecture, built villas and country houses in vienna and the surrounding area as well as factories and was considered a sought-after interior decorator. however, in 1904 laske decided to pursue an artistic career as an autodidact. in 1907 he joined the hagenbund and in 1924 the vienna secession, where he was regularly represented in exhibitions. even before the outbreak of the first world war, laske embarked on extensive painting and study trips that took him through europe, the middle east and north africa. during the war, laske first served as an officer in galicia and subsequently on the particularly bloody isonzo front. later he became a k. u. k. (\u201cimperial and royal\u201d, referring to the habsburgs dual monarchy austria-hungary) war painter. in oskar laske's rich oeuvre there are also countless dedication sheets in which he practices the art of \"cheerful finger exercise\". most of these small-format occasional graphics are watercolours, ink or pencil drawings, in which laske presents figures from his cheerful and whimsical menagerie, who act as bearers of holiday or birthday greetings or invitations, or are intended to edify and amuse the addressee. hans tietze, who was a friend of laske's, recognized very early on that laske's funny ideas make us laugh and that \"the painter could be considered a mere jester. (...) his humor is the fruit of a serious view of life, his inexhaustible joy in storytelling the result of haunting mass psychology.\u201d oskar laske dedicated some of these cheerful greeting cards to his great-niece lili gregor, known as \u201cfroscherl\u201d (little frog), who was a kind of foster daughter for laske. this also includes the late watercolor \"nikolo & krampus\" from 1940, on which oskar laske immortalized himself with his own nickname - \"aki\". the models for this personal krampus greeting are the very popular krampus cards, which have been sent out for various reasons since the 1880s. laske combines the devil's messenger with st. nicholas as the traditional bringer of gifts, but obviously cannot quite resist the suggestive touch characteristic of this type of greeting card: a naked girl kneels on the ground, ready for punishment by krampus, the \u201ctamed devil with grotesque masculinity\u201d (theresia heimerl). laske dedicated a whole series of frog watercolors and collages to his \u201cfroscherl\u201d."},"estimateMax":6000,"lotNumber":"188","title":{"de":"oskar laske (czernowitz 1874 - 1951 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17387/view","tags":["daFineart_Watercolors","daFineart_DrawingsandPastels","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":3000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:35.718Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac3,000 - \u20ac6,000","currency":"EUR","id":17387,"estimateMin":3000},{"startPrice":300,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17388/001/001.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"oskar laske (czernowitz 1874 - 1951 vienna)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"oskar laske \n (czernowitz 1874 - 1951 vienna) \n flower for ms. martha, 1940 \n watercolor/paper, 12,4 x 7,2 cm \n dated 26.x.1940 \n provenance: lili gregor, fine arts widder \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 300 - 500 \n \n austrian painter, graphic artist, book illustrator and architect of the 20th century, especially of the interwar period. studied architecture at the academy under otto wagner. apart from a course in landscape painting with anton hlavacek, self-taught painter. from 1905 member of the jungbund, from 1907 member of the hagenbund, from 1924 in the vienna secession and from 1928 in the künstlerhaus. travels through europe to north america. early landscapes and cityscapes with infusions of atmospheric impressionism. created biblical, historical and genre scenes, with a preference for narrative and multi-figure representations. imaginative, detailed and humorous with an expressive yet sensitive use of color. \n \n oskar laske, 1874 as the eldest son of the architect oskar laske senior and his wife xavera, daughter of the czernowitz master builder anton fiala, first studied architecture in vienna at the technical university and with otto wagner at the academy. after graduating, laske began practical work in the cottage association with building director hermann müller, and a year later continued his architectural studies at the academy of fine arts with otto wagner. laske joined his father's construction company in 1901 and worked there in the field of residential building architecture, built villas and country houses in vienna and the surrounding area as well as factories and was considered a sought-after interior decorator. however, in 1904 laske decided to pursue an artistic career as an autodidact. in 1907 he joined the hagenbund and in 1924 the vienna secession, where he was regularly represented in exhibitions. even before the outbreak of the first world war, laske embarked on extensive painting and study trips that took him through europe, the middle east and north africa. during the war, laske first served as an officer in galicia and subsequently on the particularly bloody isonzo front. later he became a k. u. k. 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as a freelance painter and sculptor. here he was mainly active as a painter of landscapes and portraits, as well as designer of monumental murals in public space. after years as a soldier in world war ii and his american captivity, he returned to innsbruck. in the french cultural institute in the tyrolean capital, he encountered works of french modernism for the first time, which represented a key experience in his work. from 1949 he was particularly active in the \"art in construction campaign\" initiated by the tyrolean state government and designed numerous murals, sgraffiti and mosaics. in 2006 the innsbruck city museum dedicated a large personal exhibition to walter honeder."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"200","title":{"de":"walter honeder* (hadersdorf-weidlingau 1906 - 2006 innsbruck 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(oberndorf 1891 - 1958 kitzbühel) \n summer pasture \n mixed media/paper, 27,7 x 39 cm \n verso two estate stamps prof. a. walde, kitzbühel \n provenance: estate of the artist guttaberger, b. walde, private collection austria \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 5.000 - 10.000 \n \n austrian painter and architect of the 20th century. important representative of tyrolean modernism. early influences of ferdinand hodler, gustav klimt, egon schiele and albin egger-lienz. came from tyrol, studied at the technical university in vienna. served in world war i from 1914 to 1918, returned to kitzbühel in 1918. friendship with labor poet alfons petzold. founded the art publishing house alfons walde in 1923, selling postcards and art prints of his most popular paintings there. built his berghaus on the hahnenkamm in 1929 as a social meeting place, oversaw remodeling of mittersill castle. shaped tourism in tyrol, designed logo of garms for kitzbühel in 1933, winter sports advertising posters and the red ski clothing of ski instructors. he dealt with the tradition of his homeland. created mountain landscapes, snow-covered winter landscapes with rural architecture, mountain farms and depictions of everyday tyrolean and peasant life in simplified drawing and strong, impasto coloring. \n \n the decision whether he should go to vienna after returning from the front or to kitzbühel forever moved alfons walde, the great pioneer of modernism in tyrol, only for a short time. in the summer semester of 1917/18 he enrolled at the technical university in vienna. later, around 1925, he noted: \"at that time i had studied technology a lot [...] architecture [...] it is better than studying painting [...] a precise science [...] descriptive geometry ... perspective [...].\" but walde found himself no longer cope in the world of the big city. he had never been a fan of the big city; it always pushed him out into his usual living space. in the pre-war period he only spent the time necessary for his studies in vienna. even the post-war period in vienna, which was rich in motifs for a sensitive artist, had not been able to captivate him. it was only in his familiar tyrolean surroundings that his pent-up artistic sensitivity broke through."},"estimateMax":10000,"lotNumber":"201","title":{"de":"alfons walde* (oberndorf 1891 - 1958 kitzbühel)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17400/view","tags":["daFineart_MixedMedia","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":4000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":14000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:36.137Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac5,000 - \u20ac10,000","currency":"EUR","id":17400,"estimateMin":5000},{"startPrice":1000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17401/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17401/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"wilhelm jaruska* (vienna 1916 - 2008 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portraits and figure paintings also landscapes from the forest and mühlviertel but also from vacations in carinthia and tyrol. \n \n after promising beginnings in the 1930s, the viennese painter, graphic artist, book illustrator, poster artist, designer and educator wilhelm jaruska was only able to succeed as a painter again in the 1950s due to the confusion of the times. it was above all the precarious conditions between and after the two world wars, the gruelling war service and bread work in the first post-war years that made it almost impossible for jaruska to develop freely as a painter. jaruska's educational path led via the school of applied arts in vienna and studies with albert paris gütersloh at the academy of fine arts to the höhere graphische bundeslehr- und versuchsanstalt in vienna, where he worked as a professor. as a graphic artist, designer and painter, he was responsible not only for a series of posters, murals and children's book illustrations, but also for mosaics and concrete glass windows. his multi-faceted oeuvre spans a period from the 1930s to the recent past. above all, his great mastery consisted in the fact that \u2013 regardless of which technique, stylistic basic trend or compositional structure he turned to in the individual creative periods \u2013 he always used the picturesque, which he knew how to distill from every seemingly trivial, everyday situation, into an effective one -knew how to transpose in a striking way or into the harmoniously poetic. as a commercial artist, he was so familiar with all stylistic languages that he was able to deal with them very freely. the designation \"malerdörfl\" on the reverse refers to the indeed very picturesque malerndörfl near kitzbühel, where several old tyrolean farmhouses like this one still stand. the bell tower on the roof, which is typical of the tyrolean lowlands, is a traditional rural means of communication. the bell used to call for meals, indicate festivities and serve as an alarm 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watercolors. created figure paintings, mosaics, frescoes and landscapes with motifs from the salzkammergut around the attersee. \n \n hauk studied from 1918 to 1923 at the academy of fine arts in vienna under jungwirth, sterrer and delug and exhibited in 1920 for the first time as part of a joint exhibition of the association of artists and art lovers of the \"ring\" in linz. from 1923 on hauk commuted between linz and vienna and worked as a freelance artist. he repeatedly exhibited at the vienna secession, the hagenbund and the maerz artists' association, of which he was a member. from 1927 to 1938 hauk was a member of the hagenbund and was later able to work and exhibit in spite of the nazi regime. between 1943 and 1945 he was drafted into military service. in 1947 he took over the directorship of the art school in linz and led a master class for painting until 1951. he exhibited regularly in vienna and linz in the 1950s and 1960s. in 1959, the upper austrian state museum organized the collective exhibition \"hauk-dimmel-hofmann\" with over 40 of hauk's works. after the war he was mainly active as a designer of frescoes, mosaics and murals that can be found on over 50 public buildings, mainly in linz and vienna."},"estimateMax":6000,"lotNumber":"203","title":{"de":"karl hauk* (klosterneuburg 1898 - 1974 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17402/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":3000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:36.173Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac3,000 - \u20ac6,000","currency":"EUR","id":17402,"estimateMin":3000},{"startPrice":1500,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17403/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17403/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"wilhelm jaruska* (vienna 1916 - 2008 vienna)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"wilhelm jaruska* \n (vienna 1916 - 2008 vienna) \n farmhouse in carinthia \n mixed media/paper, 33,8 x 49,5 cm \n inscribed in kärnten \n depicted in wilhelm jaruska, vienna 2020, p. 32, n. 84 \n provenance: estate of the artist, private collection vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 1.500 - 2.000 \n \n austrian painter, art educator and graphic artist of the 20th century. representative of modernism after 1950 and representational painting. studied at the kunstgewerbeschule with wilhelm müller-hofmann together with arthur zelger, rudolf korunka and paul kurt schwarz. after world war ii, very successful as a poster artist and commercial artist. from 1954 to 1976 he taught poster art and illustration at the graphische lehr- und versuchsanstalt, his students included manfred deix and gottfried helnwein. involvement with austrian expressionism by egon schiele, oskar kokoschka and herbert boeckl. created in addition to portraits and figure paintings also landscapes from the forest and mühlviertel but also of vacations and summer resorts in carinthia. \n \n after promising beginnings in the 1930s, the viennese painter, graphic artist, book illustrator, poster artist, designer and educator wilhelm jaruska was only able to succeed as a painter again in the 1950s due to the confusion of the times. it was above all the precarious conditions between and after the two world wars, the gruelling war service and bread work in the first post-war years that made it almost impossible for jaruska to develop freely as a painter. jaruska's educational path led via the school of applied arts in vienna and studies with albert paris gütersloh at the academy of fine arts to the höhere graphische bundeslehr- und versuchsanstalt in vienna, where he worked as a professor. as a graphic artist, designer and painter, he was responsible not only for a series of posters, murals and children's book illustrations, but also for mosaics and concrete glass windows. his multi-faceted oeuvre spans a period from the 1930s to the recent past. above all, his great mastery consisted in the fact that \u2013 regardless of which technique, stylistic basic trend or compositional structure he turned to in the individual creative periods \u2013 he always used the picturesque, which he knew how to distill from every seemingly trivial, everyday situation, into an effective one -knew how to transpose in a striking way or into the harmoniously poetic. as a commercial artist, he was so familiar with all stylistic languages that he was able to deal with them very freely. wilhelm jaruska very much coloured his works on paper, which he began en plein air with pencil or biros, only afterwards, often years later, at home. why the artist did not finish colouring this carinthian farmhouse is not known. however, this unusual state of suspension between small-scale pencil drawing and brightly coloured gouache lends the picture a very special charm. the coloured farm emerges from the surrounding black and white like a dear memory. with almost tender devotion, jaruska has coloured the smallest details - door, window frame and flowers - and thus clearly accentuated them, while leaving the house next door and the alley in fine grey tone."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"204","title":{"de":"wilhelm jaruska* (vienna 1916 - 2008 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17403/view","tags":["daFineart_MixedMedia","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":1500,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:36.191Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,500 - \u20ac2,000","currency":"EUR","id":17403,"estimateMin":1500},{"startPrice":1500,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17404/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17404/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"karl hauk* (klosterneuburg 1898 - 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windows and mosaics, numerous religious paintings and watercolors. created figure paintings, mosaics, frescoes and landscapes with motifs from the salzkammergut around the attersee. \n \n hauk studied from 1918 to 1923 at the academy of fine arts in vienna under jungwirth, sterrer and delug and exhibited in 1920 for the first time as part of a joint exhibition of the association of artists and art lovers of the \"ring\" in linz. from 1923 on hauk commuted between linz and vienna and worked as a freelance artist. he repeatedly exhibited at the vienna secession, the hagenbund and the maerz artists' association, of which he was a member. from 1927 to 1938 hauk was a member of the hagenbund and was later able to work and exhibit in spite of the nazi regime. between 1943 and 1945 he was drafted into military service. in 1947 he took over the directorship of the art school in linz and led a master class for painting until 1951. he exhibited regularly in vienna and linz in the 1950s and 1960s. in 1959, the upper austrian state museum organized the collective exhibition \"hauk-dimmel-hofmann\" with over 40 of hauk's works. after the war he was mainly active as a designer of frescoes, mosaics and murals that can be found on over 50 public buildings, mainly in linz and vienna."},"estimateMax":2500,"lotNumber":"205","title":{"de":"karl hauk* (klosterneuburg 1898 - 1974 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17404/view","tags":["daFineart_Watercolors","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":1500,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:36.204Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,500 - 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moritz weinhold in munich, from 1907 studied at the academy of fine arts in munich. 1926 founding member of the secession in innsbruck. created tyrolean landscapes, rural motifs but also religious scenes. \n \n ebner attended the state trade school in innsbruck from 1905 to 1907 before moving to munich and studying first at moritz weinhold's private painting school and from 1907 at the munich academy. in 1912 he went to study at lake garda. he first lived in grieß am brenner and later in dießen am ammersee. in 1926 ebner was a founding member of the innsbruck secession. in his oil painting \"homecoming from the pasture\" hans ebner contrasts a traditional subject with modern imagery. shown is the view of a small mountain village, the church placed exactly in the middle of the picture protrudes prominently and sets a color accent with its bright red roof. from an elevated point of view we look at the valley embedded between mountains. three cows and a horse are on their way home. in combination with the idyllic, rural image content, the modernity of the creative means becomes clear. in the context of tyrolean painting of the 1920s, the picture is conspicuously progressive: hans ebner splits the picture up into crystalline color fields and divides the picture surface into diamond-shaped and triangular areas with an almost symmetrical network of diagonal lines. the translucent structure is reinforced by the reduction in color to light turquoise and violet tones that appear glassy. because the hills are not built up as an overlapping sequence, but rather as an overlapping intertwining, ebner reduces the spatial effect. the composition of the picture, consisting of lines of light and rays pushed into one another, is reminiscent of the futuristic works of the italian giacomo balla. hans ebner lives temporarily in tyrol, from 1912 on the brenner pass, in the immediate vicinity of italy, and is likely to be familiar with the work of the italian futurists. in contrast to these, however, hans ebner is not interested in depicting dynamic time sequences; the narrative element of the picture is the animals, which stand out from their modern pictorial environment due to their largely naturalistic depiction and contrasting colour. the works of the artists' association \u201cder blaue reiter\u201d are probably even more important than the influence of the italian futurists. in 1913 the \u201cfirst german autumn salon\u201d exhibited in berlin, in whose extensive catalog more than 90 artists, including giacomo balla and many painters from the \u201cblauer reiter\u201d are represented. the parallels to the works of robert delaunay in the early 1910s and those of franz marc are particularly striking. in addition to similar creative means, marc repeatedly chooses the theme of the animal embedded in the landscape, which he makes the meaning of his intention in a complex color symbolism and in the painting brings together the inner and outer reality of experience. in 1912 he wrote about contemporary developments in art: \u201ctoday art is taking paths that our fathers never dreamed of; one stands in front of the new works as if in a dream [...]; one feels an artistic tension over the whole of europe\u201d. hans ebner is part of this tension and with his \"homecoming from the pasture\" develops modern painting in tyrol after the first world war."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"206","title":{"de":"hans ebner* (niederdorf 1886 - 1960 dießen at ammersee)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17405/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":2000,"fullPriceVat":true,"soldPrice":4500,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:36.205Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,000 - 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\n estimate °\u20ac 50.000 - 150.000 \n \n austrian painter and architect of the 20th century. important representative of tyrolean modernism. early influences of ferdinand hodler, gustav klimt, egon schiele and albin egger-lienz. came from tyrol, studied at the technical university in vienna. served in world war i from 1914 to 1918, returned to kitzbühel in 1918. friendship with labor poet alfons petzold. founded the art publishing house alfons walde in 1923, selling postcards and art prints of his most popular paintings there. built his berghaus on the hahnenkamm in 1929 as a social meeting place, oversaw remodeling of mittersill castle. shaped tourism in tyrol, designed logo of garms for kitzbühel in 1933, winter sports advertising posters and the red ski clothing of ski instructors. he dealt with the tradition of his homeland. created mountain landscapes, snow-covered winter landscapes with rural architecture, mountain farms and depictions of everyday tyrolean and peasant life in simplified drawing and strong, impasto coloring. \n \n the decision whether he should go to vienna after returning from the front or to kitzbühel forever moved alfons walde, the great pioneer of modernism in tyrol, only for a short time. in the summer semester of 1917/18 he enrolled at the technical university in vienna. later, around 1925, he noted: \"at that time i had studied technology a lot [...] architecture [...] it is better than studying painting [...] a precise science [...] descriptive geometry ... perspective [...].\" but walde found himself no longer cope in the world of the big city. he had never been a fan of the big city; it always pushed him out into his usual living space. in the pre-war period he only spent the time necessary for his studies in vienna. even the post-war period in vienna, which was rich in motifs for a sensitive artist, had not been able to captivate him. it was only in his familiar tyrolean surroundings that his pent-up artistic sensitivity broke through.at first it was the motifs that had been worked out before 1914, but they now called for a more generous formulation: the \"funfair\", in the original version from 1913, was redesigned in a broader, denser representation from 1919 in the overall picture and in the details. it was precisely in these years after 1918 that he painted large-format motifs that, from today's perspective, are among the main works of walde's oeuvre. impressive works such as \u201cfasnacht\u201d or \u201cstadt im tau schnee\u201d were created. the expressionistic sound effect of the colors and the composition, which grew during the war years, appears fulfilled in the kitzbühel genre scenes of the post-war years. parallel to the large formats, walde painted insights into everyday scenes in the village on small cardboard pictures: in front of the house, \"meeting\", \"going to church\", farmers at \"hoangart\", \"procession\". the fine, often brilliant coloring of the early period has given way here to the denser local tone. walde's vocabulary of motifs had changed only slightly, but he was able to increase the expressiveness to a great extent in a form-reduced expressiveness. heinrich hammer wrote about walde in 1921: \u201cevery effort is made to make the outline as descriptive as possible [...] it is always small, harmless situations that allow a few figures to be placed in the picture with moving outlines and in an attractive arrangement . of course, the color is also an essential element: nothing but rough, unmodulated models, so that the picture is as natural in its effects as these people are in life.\u201d walde painted several versions of this cheerfully laughing young farmer's wife from kitzbühel, who strides across the diagonal of the picture so dynamically that the ribbons of her little black hat boldly wave behind her head. the present one can probably be considered the prettiest and smartest. a kind of bag or perhaps a palm pretzel dangles merrily from the young woman's right hand; in this variant, the snow-covered wilder kaiser rises up against a blue sky in the background."},"estimateMax":150000,"lotNumber":"207","title":{"de":"alfons walde* (oberndorf 1891 - 1959 kitzbühel)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17406/view","tags":["daFineart_MixedMedia","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":30000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:36.224Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac50,000 - \u20ac150,000","currency":"EUR","id":17406,"estimateMin":50000},{"startPrice":25000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17407/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17407/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17407/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"cuno amiet (solothurn 1868 -1961 oschwand)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"cuno amiet \n (solothurn 1868 -1961 oschwand) \n peter, 1929 \n oil/canvas, 46 x 38,4 cm \n signed c. amiet, monogrammed ca and dated 29 \n verso signed c. amiet, titled peter 1929, label art museum olten \n exhibited in the kunsthalle bern 1938, catalog no. 94 \n the work is registered at the swiss institute for art history with the number 94223 \n provenance: collection edwin lüscher switzerland, auction house fischer switzerland 2009, european private collection \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 30.000 - 50.000 \n \n swiss painter, graphic artist and sculptor. pioneer of swiss modernism, main representative of swiss expressionism. studied from 1886 at the academy of fine arts in munich with caspar ritter, gabriel von hackl, karl raupp and nikolaus gysis. lifelong friendship with giovanni giacometti, godfather of the eldest son alberto giacometti. in munich in the circle of franz baur, max buri, wilhelm balmer, emil dill, walter mettler, charles welti and others. influenced by post-impressionist painters such as paul gauguin, émile bernard and paul sérusier, but also by ferdinand hodler and giovanni segantini. from 1988 studied in paris at the académie julian with tony robert-fleury, among others, together with pierre bonnard, édouard vuillard, maurice denis and paul sérusier. joins the nabis group of artists with félix vallotton. 1893 travels to pont aven in brittany, in the following years acquaintance and influence of ferdinand hodler and giovanni segantini. 1904 exhibition at the vienna secession, 1905 exhibition at the richter gallery in dresden. contact with erich heckel, fritz bleyl, ernst ludwig kirchner and karl schmidt-rottluff and joins the dresden artists' group brücke. 1931 50 paintings destroyed in fire at munich glass palace, 1937 many works confiscated in nazi action degenerate art. created colorful and expressionistic landscapes and portraits, often described as swiss bonnard."},"estimateMax":50000,"lotNumber":"208","title":{"de":"cuno amiet (solothurn 1868 -1961 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\n depicted in theodor alescha, vienna 2003, p. 66 \n provenance: estate of the artist, by inheritance to the artist's partner, fine arts widder vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 800 - 1.500 \n \n austrian landscape and architecture painter of the 20th century. representatives of exile art. studied at the academy of fine arts with rudolf bacher. travels to italy, yugoslavia, russia, switzerland, france, portugal and america. acquaintance with romain rolland. fondness for the poet walt whitman and the novelist otto flake. exhibited regularly in the hagenbund. in 1938 he emigrated to grenoble in france, and in paris in 1939 he met willy eisenschitz and georg merkel. 1941 emigration to the usa, 1947 return to vienna. 1984 exhibition in the austrian gallery belvedere, 1988 exhibition in the vienna museum. created mainly landscapes including pastels with impressive mountain scenes and mountain landscapes from the valais alps. \n \n after studying at the vienna academy, theodor alescha continued his education largely self-taught. from 1918 he made numerous journeys through europe, e.g. to italy, switzerland, france and portugal. his landscape paintings in particular attracted the attention of colleagues and collectors at exhibitions in the hagenbund. in 1934 he went into exile in switzerland and arrived in the usa in 1941 via france, spain and portugal. in 1947 alescha returned to vienna at the invitation of city councilor for culture viktor matejka, where he was given a studio by the municipality and supported by state purchases. in 1984 he was honored with a retrospective at the austrian gallery, and in 1988 with a special exhibition at the historical museum."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"209","title":{"de":"theodor alescha* (vienna 1898 - 1991 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fine arts widder vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 1.000 - 1.500 \n \n austrian landscape and architecture painter of the 20th century. representative of exile art. studied at the academy of fine arts with rudolf bacher. travels to italy, yugoslavia, russia, switzerland, france, portugal and america. acquaintance with romain rolland. fondness for the poet walt whitman and the novelist otto flake. exhibited regularly in the hagenbund. in 1938 he emigrated to grenoble in france, and in paris in 1939 he met willy eisenschitz and georg merkel. 1941 emigration to the usa, 1947 return to vienna. 1984 exhibition in the austrian gallery belvedere, 1988 exhibition in the vienna museum. created mainly landscapes including pastels with impressive mountain scenes and mountain landscapes from the valais alps. \n \n after studying at the vienna academy, theodor alescha continued his education largely self-taught. from 1918 he made numerous journeys through europe, e.g. to italy, switzerland, france and portugal. his landscape paintings in particular attracted the attention of colleagues and collectors at exhibitions in the hagenbund. in 1934 he went into exile in switzerland and arrived in the usa in 1941 via france, spain and portugal. in 1947 alescha returned to vienna at the invitation of city councilor for culture viktor matejka, where he was given a studio by the municipality and supported by state purchases. in 1984 he was honored with a retrospective at the austrian gallery, and in 1988 with a special exhibition at the historical museum."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"210","title":{"de":"theodor alescha* (vienna 1898 - 1991 lilienfeld)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17409/view","tags":["daFineart_DrawingsandPastels","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":1000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:36.247Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,000 - 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the novelist otto flake. exhibited regularly in the hagenbund. in 1938 he emigrated to grenoble in france, and in paris in 1939 he met willy eisenschitz and georg merkel. 1941 emigration to the usa, 1947 return to vienna. 1984 exhibition in the austrian gallery belvedere, 1988 exhibition in the vienna museum. created mainly landscapes including pastels with impressive mountain scenes and mountain landscapes from the valais alps. \n \n after studying at the vienna academy, theodor alescha continued his education largely self-taught. from 1918 he made numerous journeys through europe, e.g. to italy, switzerland, france and portugal. his landscape paintings in particular attracted the attention of colleagues and collectors at exhibitions in the hagenbund. in 1934 he went into exile in switzerland and arrived in the usa in 1941 via france, spain and portugal. in 1947 alescha returned to vienna at the invitation of city councilor for culture viktor matejka, where he was given a studio by 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salzburg and italy. 1924 married the english noblewoman dolores cherwadsky-damarkow, established contacts with london artist and collector circles. 1929 first exhibition at the london fine art society. contacts with aristocratic, diplomatic and business circles, exhibitions in london and new york. marries his two brenda davidoff. created landscapes, portraits and religious representations. figurative approach comparable to albin egger-lienz, tyrolean landscape artists such as alfons walde and oskar mulley. \n \n gurschner's talent for painting became apparent at an early age. in 1918 he was accepted as the youngest student at the academy in munich. from 1920 he lived in the mühlau district of innsbruck and exhibited together with the other artists of the \"mühlau circle\", nepo, schnegg and lehnert. from 1925 onwards he travelled extensively in italy, spain and france, exhibited at the venice biennale and had an acclaimed solo show at the london fine art society in 1929. in 1931, the tate gallery purchased his \"annunciation\". gurschner lived from numerous portrait commissions and thus moved in aristocratic, diplomatic and business circles. in 1938 he went into exile in london, where he met his second wife brenda. after the war, gurschner turned to stage design and worked for covent garden opera, the globe and hammersmith theatre. natural landscapes and, in a broader sense, cityscapes form an important artistic challenge and a wide-ranging field of experimentation in gurschner's work of the interwar period - whether in the form of a pencil drawing relying on contours, as a spontaneous watercolour or as a representative oil painting. gurschner's city view focuses on the main historical sights of the picturesque city on the salzach, which have always been part of every visitor's must-see programme: the hohenfeste salzburg, towering over the city, and the view from the mönchsberg of the altstatt with the cathedral and the baroque kollegienkirche. gurschner always chooses the picturesque angle of view and circles it, as it were: he surrounds the medieval fortress at the foot of the mountain with a defensive wall. he flanks the view of the salzburg churches on both vertical sides with trees, which also function here as a classical repoussoir motif. thus these city views appear to be pleasing vedute, which he perhaps wanted to transfer to the medium of printmaking. this is suggested by the clear disposition and the renunciation of too meticulous detail. gurschner was perhaps also flirting here with the idea of using such views of salzburg to find buyers for his art among the well-heeled audience of the still young salzburg festival, founded in 1920. since the second salzburg festival took place from 2 to 23 august 1921, these drawings created in the run-up to the event could also be associated with this intention, especially since the festival city always scored points for its setting in one of the most beautiful landscapes in europe. already hugo 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stylistic development between expressionism and new objectivity. nephew of the sculptors emil and gustav gurschner. attended the school of arts and crafts in innsbruck and studied at the academy of fine arts in munich from 1918 to 1920. in 1920 he lived in mühlau in innsbruck, exhibited with the mühlau circle around alfons schnegg, rudolf lehnert and ernst nepo. early 1920s landscapes and cityscapes from travels through tyrol, salzburg and italy. 1924 married the english noblewoman dolores cherwadsky-damarkow, established contacts with london artist and collector circles. 1929 first exhibition at the london fine art society. contacts with aristocratic, diplomatic and business circles, exhibitions in london and new york. marries his two brenda davidoff. created landscapes, portraits and religious representations. figurative approach comparable to albin egger-lienz, tyrolean landscape artists such as alfons walde and oskar mulley. \n \n gurschner's talent for painting became apparent at an early age. in 1918 he was accepted as the youngest student at the academy in munich. from 1920 he lived in the mühlau district of innsbruck and exhibited together with the other artists of the \"mühlau circle\", nepo, schnegg and lehnert. from 1925 onwards he travelled extensively in italy, spain and france, exhibited at the venice biennale and had an acclaimed solo show at the london fine art society in 1929. in 1931, the tate gallery purchased his \"annunciation\". gurschner lived from numerous portrait commissions and thus moved in aristocratic, diplomatic and business circles. in 1938 he went into exile in london, where he met his second wife brenda. after the war, gurschner turned to stage design and worked for covent garden opera, the globe and hammersmith theatre. natural landscapes and, in a broader sense, cityscapes form an important artistic challenge and a wide-ranging field of experimentation in gurschner's work of the interwar period - whether in the form of a pencil drawing relying on contours, as a spontaneous watercolour or as a representative oil painting. gurschner's city view focuses on the main historical sights of the picturesque city on the salzach, which have always been part of every visitor's must-see programme: the hohenfeste salzburg, towering over the city, and the view from the mönchsberg of the altstatt with the cathedral and the baroque kollegienkirche. gurschner always chooses the picturesque angle of view and circles it, as it were: he surrounds the medieval fortress at the foot of the mountain with a defensive wall. he flanks the view of the salzburg churches on both vertical sides with trees, which also function here as a classical repoussoir motif. thus these city views appear to be pleasing vedute, which he perhaps wanted to transfer to the medium of printmaking. this is suggested by the clear disposition and the renunciation of too meticulous detail. gurschner was perhaps also flirting here with the idea of using such views of salzburg to find buyers for his art among the well-heeled audience of the still young salzburg festival, founded in 1920. since the second salzburg festival took place from 2 to 23 august 1921, these drawings created in the run-up to the event could also be associated with this intention, especially since the festival city always scored points for its setting in one of the most beautiful landscapes in europe. already hugo von hofmannsthal, as co-founder of this salzburg festival, stated in 1919: \"the salzburg region is the heart of the heart of europe. central europe has no more beautiful space - and it was precisely here that mozart had to be born.\""},"estimateMax":2500,"lotNumber":"213","title":{"de":"herbert gurschner* (innsbruck 1901 - 1975 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of the 20th century especially the interwar period. representatives of tyrolean modernism such as artur nikodem, ernst nepo, wilhelm n. prachensky, hans tyrol-weber, etc. stylistic development between expressionism and new objectivity. nephew of the sculptors emil and gustav gurschner. attended the school of arts and crafts in innsbruck and studied at the academy of fine arts in munich from 1918 to 1920. in 1920 he lived in mühlau in innsbruck, exhibited with the mühlau circle around alfons schnegg, rudolf lehnert and ernst nepo. early 1920s landscapes and cityscapes from travels through tyrol, salzburg and italy. 1924 married the english noblewoman dolores cherwadsky-damarkow, established contacts with london artist and collector circles. 1929 first exhibition at the london fine art society. contacts with aristocratic, diplomatic and business circles, exhibitions in london and new york. married his second wife brenda davidoff. created landscapes, portraits and religious representations figure conception comparable to albin egger-lienz, tyrolean landscape artists such as alfons walde and oskar mulley. color woodcuts with tyrolean motifs, churches, folk costumes comparable to robert sauerwein and sidonius schrom. \n \n gurschner's talent for painting became apparent at an early age. in 1918 he was accepted as the youngest student at the academy in munich. from 1920 he lived in the mühlau district of innsbruck and exhibited together with the other artists of the \"mühlau circle\", nepo, schnegg and lehnert. from 1925 onwards he travelled extensively in italy, spain and france, exhibited at the venice biennale and had an acclaimed solo show at the london fine art society in 1929. in 1931, the tate gallery purchased his \"annunciation\". gurschner lived from numerous portrait commissions and thus moved in aristocratic, diplomatic and business circles. in 1938 he went into exile in london, where he met his second wife brenda. after the war, gurschner turned to stage design and worked for covent garden opera, the globe and hammersmith theatre. the popular tyrolean painter herbert gurschner made many a collector's heart beat faster with his prints created in the mid-1920s. typical scenes from everyday tyrolean life, such as church walks, village scenes or landscapes, are worked out by gurschner in the technique of woodcut and linocut, in which differently coloured sticks or plates are printed on top of each other. smaller sections are often coloured by hand by the artist himself. in this way, he creates not only an exciting depth effect in these small formats, but also a great liveliness. the artist finds many of his motifs in innsbruck and the surrounding area and on his travels to south tyrol and italy. his second wife, an english noblewoman, is financially independent and opens up many contacts for him in the world of the nobility, business and theatre, which provide him with invitations and well-paid portrait commissions. although the 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additive composition. in contrast to walde, he creates more densely packed groups of people, which give his pictures a more narrative character. his motifs are less monumental and crudely constructed, appear more agile and correspond in their originality to the coloured wood and linoleum cuts that helped gurschner to become widely known in tyrol and england."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"214","title":{"de":"herbert gurschner* (innsbruck 1901 - 1975 london)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17413/view","tags":["daFineart_PrintsandMultiples","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":800,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:34.706Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,000 - 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youngest student at the academy in munich. from 1920 he lived in the mühlau district of innsbruck and exhibited together with the other artists of the \"mühlau circle\", nepo, schnegg and lehnert. from 1925 onwards he travelled extensively in italy, spain and france, exhibited at the venice biennale and had an acclaimed solo show at the london fine art society in 1929. in 1931, the tate gallery purchased his \"annunciation\". gurschner lived from numerous portrait commissions and thus moved in aristocratic, diplomatic and business circles. in 1938 he went into exile in london, where he met his second wife brenda. after the war, gurschner turned to stage design and worked for covent garden opera, the globe and hammersmith theatre. the popular tyrolean painter herbert gurschner made many a collector's heart beat faster with his prints created in the mid-1920s. typical scenes from everyday tyrolean life, such as church walks, village scenes or landscapes, are worked out by gurschner in the technique of woodcut and linocut, in which differently coloured sticks or plates are printed on top of each other. smaller sections are often coloured by hand by the artist himself. in this way, he creates not only an exciting depth effect in these small formats, but also a great liveliness. the artist finds many of his motifs in innsbruck and the surrounding area and on his travels to south tyrol and italy. his second wife, an english noblewoman, is financially independent and opens up many contacts for him in the world of the nobility, business and theatre, which provide him with invitations and well-paid portrait commissions. although the village life that gurschner still knew from his youth and early adulthood was becoming more and more distant, it was precisely the picturesque mountain worlds and their inhabitants that fascinated foreign buyers. thus, pictures of his tyrolean homeland, such as the \"dorftratsch\" and the \"dorfplatz\", continue to 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and promoted by arthur roessler. member of the artist group freie bewegung and from 1925 to 1938 member of the hagenbund. lived temporarily in passau, together with georg philipp wörlen, reinhard hilker, fritz fuhrken and franz bronstert in the artist group der fels. married to the classical philologist gertrude herzog-hauser from 1922. during the second world war in exile in switzerland, wife and son fled to the netherlands. from 1947 again involved in cultural reconstruction in vienna. secretary general and vice president of the p.e.n. club, honorary president of the new hagenbund. stylistic development from classical, academic training through early expressionism to new objectivity. themes such as love, death, eros, narrative representations, religious themes. from the mid-1960s, trips to africa, increasingly african motifs. \n \n carry hauser was born as karl maria hauser on february 16, 1895 in vienna. his father is an official in the ministry of the imperial house and foreign affairs, his mother maria hauser, née linke, the daughter of a moravian landowner. carry hauser and his brother heinz, who is three years his senior, are initially taught at home by their mother, who is a teacher. hauser grew up in an art-interested environment of the viennese educated middle class, with frequent visits to the theater and exhibitions. from 1905 to 1910 he attended the schottengymnasium in vienna and then switched to the graphic teaching and research institute for two years. at the same time, he completed an evening course in ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek at the school of applied arts. 1912 carry hauser attended the school of applied arts for two years, first in general form theory with oskar strnad and in the second year in nature studies with adolf böhm. during this time he received basic artistic training in the general department under the direction of alfred roller, which was characterized by extensive practical workshop training using a wide variety of techniques. he also attends the evening nude class with oskar kokoschka, the class for nude studies with anton von kenner, ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek and writing and heraldry with rudolf von larisch. in november 1914 he left the school of arts and crafts early, after passing all the exams, and in the same month he volunteered in the army with the deutschmeister regiment as k. and k. deutschmeister. after training as an officer, he was transferred to the first infantry regiment in austria-silesia, where he did his military service in present-day poland, ukraine and the czech republic. towards the end of the war he stayed in chernivtsi and worked on pictures for a regiment exhibition. the experiences of the war, the contact to intellectual and pacifist circles and above all the death of his brother heinz shaped him and allowed him to emerge from the war as a pacifist. back in vienna after the end of the war, hauser established contacts with the art historian, art critic and collector arthur roessler and the playwright franz theodor csokor, for whom he designed stage sets and costumes. hauser is a founding and executive member (until 1922) of the artists' association die freie bewegungs (the free movement), which organizes exhibitions of international contemporary art. at the same time, he works as an artist for the wiener graphische werkstätte publishing house, which mainly publishes modern austrian literature. from the very beginning he devoted himself intensively to theater and literature in addition to the fine arts. in october 1919, carry hauser had his first personal exhibition in the house of the young artists. the modern art of the interwar period has fallen into oblivion and young artists orientate themselves towards international trends and the conservative taste in art of the national socialists is increasingly harder to shake off. hauser begins to campaign for the reconstruction of the modern art and cultural landscape of his homeland. he follows the events of the art club and is involved in the founding of the new hagenbund. he intensified his collaboration with theater and literary circles and from 1947 to 1973 he was a member of the austrian p.e.n. clubs, of which he became general secretary in 1952 and where he also served as vice president until 1972. in 1947, a personal exhibition with 50 works from the period after 1938 took place in lincoln, usa. in 1949 he received the city of vienna prize for graphics and applied arts. in 1951 he resigned as president of the new hagenbund due to internal disagreements. in 1952 he was a member of the professional association of austrian resistance fighters and victims of fascism. co-founder and temporarily vice-president of the professional association of austrian visual artists, member of the board of trustees of the documentation archive of the austrian resistance and president of the action against anti-semitism as well as president of the federation of modern visual artists in austria. in the 1950s he drew the illustrations for the book das weltbild der moderne by karl renner and worked on several ceramic mosaics for the municipality of vienna (including voltagasse 1210 vienna, märzstraße 1150 vienna, theresienbad 1120 vienna, simonygasse 1180 vienna). from the 1960s on, carry hauser regularly travels to croatia, israel and above all to africa. numerous sketches are created on these trips, in which he captures nature and the local people. at the same time he takes part in international exhibitions, in 1960 in the kunstverein braunschweig and in the galerie de bourgogne in paris, in 1964 a personal exhibition in jerusalem follows. one year later, in 1965, he received the golden medal of honor and in 1985 the ring of honor of the city of vienna. until the end of his life, it was above all the experiences of his travels to afrika that had the greatest impact on his artistic work. his love for africa began in 1967 with a cruise on a cargo steamer via gibraltar and the suez canal to south africa. several stays in east and west africa followed, e.g. in freetown in sierra leone, in mombasa in kenya, in cameroon, on zanzibar in tanzania, on djerba and in tunis. hauser finds something in africa that he probably misses in his homeland and describes it in the following words: \"...africa has a substance - the africans have a substance - that has grabbed me, so that everything i've written lately , what i painted has to do with africa and came out of this african experience, because i see something here that i think is a view of the world...\""},"estimateMax":5000,"lotNumber":"219","title":{"de":"carry hauser* (vienna 1895 - 1985 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first personal exhibition in the house of the young artists. the modern art of the interwar period has fallen into oblivion and young artists orientate themselves towards international trends and the conservative taste in art of the national socialists is increasingly harder to shake off. hauser begins to campaign for the reconstruction of the modern art and cultural landscape of his homeland. he follows the events of the art club and is involved in the founding of the new hagenbund. he intensified his collaboration with theater and literary circles and from 1947 to 1973 he was a member of the austrian p.e.n. clubs, of which he became general secretary in 1952 and where he also served as vice president until 1972. in 1947, a personal exhibition with 50 works from the period after 1938 took place in lincoln, usa. in 1949 he received the city of vienna prize for graphics and applied arts. in 1951 he resigned as president of the new hagenbund due to internal disagreements. in 1952 he was a member of the professional association of austrian resistance fighters and victims of fascism. co-founder and temporarily vice-president of the professional association of austrian visual artists, member of the board of trustees of the documentation archive of the austrian resistance and president of the action against anti-semitism as well as president of the federation of modern visual artists in austria. in the 1950s he drew the illustrations for the book das weltbild der moderne by karl renner and worked on several ceramic mosaics for the municipality of vienna (including voltagasse 1210 vienna, märzstraße 1150 vienna, theresienbad 1120 vienna, simonygasse 1180 vienna). from the 1960s on, carry hauser regularly travels to croatia, israel and above all to africa. numerous sketches are created on these trips, in which he captures nature and the local people. at the same time he takes part in international exhibitions, in 1960 in the kunstverein braunschweig and in the galerie de bourgogne in paris, in 1964 a personal exhibition in jerusalem follows. one year later, in 1965, he received the golden medal of honor and in 1985 the ring of honor of the city of vienna. until the end of his life, it was above all the experiences of his travels to afrika that had the greatest impact on his artistic work. his love for africa began in 1967 with a cruise on a cargo steamer via gibraltar and the suez canal to south africa. several stays in east and west africa followed, e.g. in freetown in sierra leone, in mombasa in kenya, in cameroon, on zanzibar in tanzania, on djerba and in tunis. hauser finds something in africa that he probably misses in his homeland and describes it in the following words: \"...africa has a substance - the africans have a substance - that has grabbed me, so that everything i've written lately , what i painted has to do with africa and came out of this african experience, because i see something here that i think is a view of the 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2018, p. 104, n. 311 \n provenance: estate of the artist, fine arts widder \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 500 - 1.000 \n \n austrian painter, stage designer, poet, writer of the 20th century. studied at the school of applied arts in vienna under alfred roller, oskar strnad, anton von kenner and adolf michael boehm. in 1914 he volunteered for the first world war and returned as a pacifist. friends with franz theodor csokor and promoted by arthur roessler. member of the artist group freie bewegung and from 1925 to 1938 member of the hagenbund. lived temporarily in passau, together with georg philipp wörlen, reinhard hilker, fritz fuhrken and franz bronstert in the artist group der fels. married to the classical philologist gertrude herzog-hauser from 1922. during the second world war in exile in switzerland, wife and son fled to the netherlands. from 1947 again involved in cultural reconstruction in vienna. secretary general and vice president of the p.e.n. club, honorary president of the new hagenbund. stylistic development from classical, academic training through early expressionism to new objectivity. themes such as love, death, eros, narrative representations, religious themes. from the mid-1960s, trips to africa, more and more african motifs. \n \n carry hauser was born as karl maria hauser on february 16, 1895 in vienna. his father is an official in the ministry of the imperial house and foreign affairs, his mother maria hauser, née linke, the daughter of a moravian landowner. carry hauser and his brother heinz, who is three years his senior, are initially taught at home by their mother, who is a teacher. hauser grew up in an art-interested environment of the viennese educated middle class, with frequent visits to the theater and exhibitions. from 1905 to 1910 he attended the schottengymnasium in vienna and then switched to the graphic teaching and research institute for two years. at the same time, he completed an evening course in ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek at the school of applied arts. 1912 carry hauser attended the school of applied arts for two years, first in general form theory with oskar strnad and in the second year in nature studies with adolf böhm. during this time he received basic artistic training in the general department under the direction of alfred roller, which was characterized by extensive practical workshop training using a wide variety of techniques. he also attends the evening nude class with oskar kokoschka, the class for nude studies with anton von kenner, ornamental form theory with franz cˇižek and writing and heraldry with rudolf von larisch. in november 1914 he left the school of arts and crafts early, after passing all the exams, and in the same month he volunteered in the army with the deutschmeister regiment as k. and k. deutschmeister. after training as an officer, he was transferred to the first infantry regiment in austria-silesia, where he did his military service in present-day poland, ukraine and the czech republic. towards the end of the war he stayed in chernivtsi and worked on pictures for a regiment exhibition. the experiences of the war, the contact to intellectual and pacifist circles and above all the death of his brother heinz shaped him and allowed him to emerge from the war as a pacifist. back in vienna after the end of the war, hauser established contacts with the art historian, art critic and collector arthur roessler and the playwright franz theodor csokor, for whom he designed stage sets and costumes. hauser is a founding and executive member (until 1922) of the artists' association die freie bewegungs (the free movement), which organizes exhibitions of international contemporary art. at the same time, he works as an artist for the wiener graphische werkstätte publishing house, which mainly publishes modern austrian literature. from the very beginning he devoted himself intensively to theater and literature in addition to the fine arts. in october 1919, carry hauser had his first personal exhibition in the house of the young artists. the modern art of the interwar period has fallen into oblivion and young artists orientate themselves towards international trends and the conservative taste in art of the national socialists is increasingly harder to shake off. hauser begins to campaign for the reconstruction of the modern art and cultural landscape of his homeland. he follows the events of the art club and is involved in the founding of the new hagenbund. he intensified his collaboration with theater and literary circles and from 1947 to 1973 he was a member of the austrian p.e.n. clubs, of which he became general secretary in 1952 and where he also served as vice president until 1972. in 1947, a personal exhibition with 50 works from the period after 1938 took place in lincoln, usa. in 1949 he received the city of vienna prize for graphics and applied arts. in 1951 he resigned as president of the new hagenbund due to internal disagreements. in 1952 he was a member of the professional association of austrian resistance fighters and victims of fascism. co-founder and temporarily vice-president of the professional association of austrian visual artists, member of the board of trustees of the documentation archive of the austrian resistance and president of the action against anti-semitism as well as president of the federation of modern visual artists in austria. in the 1950s he drew the illustrations for the book das weltbild der moderne by karl renner and worked on several ceramic mosaics for the municipality of vienna (including voltagasse 1210 vienna, märzstraße 1150 vienna, theresienbad 1120 vienna, simonygasse 1180 vienna). from the 1960s on, carry hauser regularly travels to croatia, israel and above all to africa. numerous sketches are created on these trips, in which he captures nature and the local people. at the same time he takes part in international exhibitions, in 1960 in the kunstverein braunschweig and in the galerie de bourgogne in paris, in 1964 a personal exhibition in jerusalem follows. one year later, in 1965, he received the golden medal of honor and in 1985 the ring of honor of the city of vienna. until the end of his life, it was above all the experiences of his travels to afrika that had the greatest impact on his artistic work. his love for africa began in 1967 with a cruise on a cargo steamer via gibraltar and the suez canal to south africa. several stays in east and west africa followed, e.g. in freetown in sierra leone, in mombasa in kenya, in cameroon, on zanzibar in tanzania, on djerba and in tunis. hauser finds something in africa that he probably misses in his homeland and describes it in the following words: \"...africa has a substance - the africans have a substance - that has grabbed me, so that everything i've written lately , what i painted has to do with africa and came out of this african experience, because i see something here that i think is a view of the 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austria \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 3.000 - 6.000 \n \n the large-format painting \"jesus on the mount of olives\" shows a biblical event that is described in the gospel of luke. after the last supper, jesus and his disciples peter, james and john go to the garden of gethsemane on the mount of olives. filled with fear, he seeks the support of god the father in prayer when an angel appears and gives him strength. the gospels of mark and matthew mention the sleeping disciples whom jesus finds after his prayer. the touching scene takes place in front of the imposing backdrop of the salzburg untersberg with the church of st. leonhard. the coarse body shapes, the dark tones and the sensitive faces of the figures increase the viewer's empathy. this extraordinary representation of the new objectivity brings the human nature of jesus into focus."},"estimateMax":6000,"lotNumber":"222","title":{"de":"künstler 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collection austria \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 15.000 - 30.000 \n \n austrian painter and stage designer of the 20th century especially the interwar period. representatives of tyrolean modernism such as artur nikodem, ernst nepo, wilhelm n. prachensky, hans tyrol-weber, etc. stylistic development between expressionism and new objectivity. nephew of the sculptors emil and gustav gurschner. attended the school of arts and crafts in innsbruck and studied at the academy of fine arts in munich from 1918 to 1920. in 1920 he lived in mühlau in innsbruck, exhibited with the mühlau circle around alfons schnegg, rudolf lehnert and ernst nepo. early 1920s landscapes and cityscapes from travels through tyrol, salzburg and italy. 1924 married the english noblewoman dolores cherwadsky-damarkow, established contacts with london artist and collector circles. 1929 first exhibition at the london fine art society. contacts with aristocratic, diplomatic and business circles, exhibitions in london and new 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1938 he went into exile in london, where he met his second wife, brenda. after the war, gurschner turned to stage design, working for covent garden opera, the globe and hammersmith theaters. as early as 1927, herbert gurschner exhibited a painting in his first exhibition at the fine art society in london that dealt with the \"triumph of death\". this work was created in the same year as the present smaller version and was shown a second time in 1928, when austria was a guest exhibitor in the italian pavilion at the venice biennale. in comparison to the biennale version, our version of the \"triumph of death\" is the more new objective and artistically goes beyond it. in addition to religious pictures, gurschner painted a number of effective, symbolic-existential pictures in this period, in which expressive tendencies were combined with new-objective pictorial means, the effect of which was close to magical realism."},"estimateMax":30000,"lotNumber":"223","title":{"de":"herbert 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windows and mosaics, numerous religious paintings and watercolors. expressive paintings with intense color, pronounced symbolism and a strong psychological sense of the figures. \n \n hauk studied from 1918 to 1923 at the academy of fine arts in vienna under jungwirth, sterrer and delug and exhibited in 1920 for the first time as part of a joint exhibition of the association of artists and art lovers of the \"ring\" in linz. from 1923 on hauk commuted between linz and vienna and worked as a freelance artist. he repeatedly exhibited at the vienna secession, the hagenbund and the maerz artists' association, of which he was a member. from 1927 to 1938 hauk was a member of the hagenbund and was later able to work and exhibit in spite of the nazi regime. between 1943 and 1945 he was drafted into military service. in 1947 he took over the directorship of the art school in linz and led a master class for painting until 1951. he exhibited regularly in vienna and linz in the 1950s and 1960s. in 1959, the upper austrian state museum organized the collective exhibition \"hauk-dimmel-hofmann\" with over 40 of hauk's works. after the war he was mainly active as a designer of frescoes, mosaics and murals that can be found on over 50 public buildings, mainly in linz and vienna."},"estimateMax":3000,"lotNumber":"225","title":{"de":"karl hauk* (klosterneuburg 1898 - 1974 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17424/view","tags":["daFineart_Watercolors","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":1500,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:36.910Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,500 - \u20ac3,000","currency":"EUR","id":17424,"estimateMin":1500},{"startPrice":2000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17425/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17425/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"karl hauk* (klosterneuburg 1898 - 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1959, the upper austrian state museum organized the collective exhibition \"hauk-dimmel-hofmann\" with over 40 of hauk's works. after the war he was mainly active as a designer of frescoes, mosaics and murals that can be found on over 50 public buildings, mainly in linz and vienna."},"estimateMax":3000,"lotNumber":"226","title":{"de":"karl hauk* (klosterneuburg 1898 - 1974 vienna)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17425/view","tags":["daFineart_DrawingsandPastels","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":2000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:36.913Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,000 - \u20ac3,000","currency":"EUR","id":17425,"estimateMin":2000},{"startPrice":1000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17426/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17426/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"karl hauk* (klosterneuburg 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freelance artist. he repeatedly exhibited at the vienna secession, the hagenbund and the maerz artists' association, of which he was a member. from 1927 to 1938 hauk was a member of the hagenbund and was later able to work and exhibit in spite of the nazi regime. between 1943 and 1945 he was drafted into military service. in 1947 he took over the directorship of the art school in linz and led a master class for painting until 1951. he exhibited regularly in vienna and linz in the 1950s and 1960s. in 1959, the upper austrian state museum organized the collective exhibition \"hauk-dimmel-hofmann\" with over 40 of hauk's works. after the war he was mainly active as a designer of frescoes, mosaics and murals that can be found on over 50 public buildings, mainly in linz and vienna."},"estimateMax":8000,"lotNumber":"228","title":{"de":"karl hauk* (klosterneuburg 1898 - 1974 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private collection vienna \n \n \n estimate \u20ac 5.000 - 10.000 \n \n austrian artist of the 20th century. main representative of austrian expressionism, color expressionism and classical modernism. from 1936 to 1940 student of sculpture with w. gössner and painting under rudolf szyszkowitz at the school of arts and crafts in graz. studied from 1947 at the academy of fine arts in vienna with herbert boeckl. influenced by the early expressionism of richard gerstl, herbert boeckl and jean egger. in his exploration of color and form, he created primarily landscapes and still lifes with an impasto and gestural application of paint. \n \n karl stark was born in glojach in styria in 1921 as the son of a teacher. since his artistic interest was initially in the three-dimensional, he began studying sculpture at the graz school of applied arts in 1936. because the subsequent military service made it impossible for him to start a career quickly, he decided to continue his art studies after the end of the war. however, he now decided to study painting with rudolf szyszkowitz and \u2013 after moving to vienna in 1947 \u2013 with herbert boeckl at the academy of fine arts. since in the official art scene almost only abstract painting was acclaimed as an innovation by art critics and many artists, stark increasingly distanced himself from the viennese art scene and finally moved to the drautal with his family in 1951. he then commuted weekly from his carinthian domicile to linz, where he taught at the school of applied arts. karl stark only returned to vienna in 1958. there he was able to devote himself entirely to painting again. the still life created in 1957 also dates to this period of upheaval. it refers to the french painter paul cézanne as a figure of reverence both in its structure and in its painting. stark also refers to this pioneering frenchman in the arrangement of the still life: he places the white fruit bowl with the apples in shades of orange and red at a slight angle on a carefully laid out white tablecloth. this cézanne reference also applies to the color contrasts between the warm red tones of the apples and the shadowy blue-grey of the tablecloth. however, karl stark's experiences in sculpture also established his own deep understanding of form, space and plasticity. stark's decision in favor of an impasto style of painting as well as a gestural and powerful brushwork probably came from his examination of boeckl's still life painting. like him, stark also deals with the traditional pictorial solutions of classical modernism at the crossroads between representationalism and abstraction. his special concern is the interplay of colour, form and structure and their connections, as he also underpins this in terms of art theory: \u201cform and color have to work together in order to produce something new. through the conscious formation of form, the designed color becomes 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k. stark and dated 1957 \n provenance: auction house kinsky vienna 2020, private collection vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 3.000 - 6.000 \n \n austrian painter of the 20th century. was born in czernowitz/buwokina, studied from 1926 to 1931 at the academy of fine arts with ferdinand andri and karl fahringer. in 1946 co-founder of the artist group der kreis, from 1958 member of the vienna secession. works of the interwar period stylistically to expressionism, influences of richard gerstl and edvard munch. from the 1940s, he turned to representational abstraction and later to the influences of cubism and surrealism, in the circle of edgar jené. painted mainly portraits, landscapes and still lifes. influenced by paul cezanne, in his late work he dealt with tachism. 1979 exhibition at the austrian gallery belvedere. \n \n this still life by the czernowitz-born painter and graphic artist gustav hessing, with its subdued colouring, combines the typical characteristics of his painting style: paul cézanne and amedeo modigliani had a particular influence on hessing's style and had become a necessary foundation for him. only hesitantly did he put colour to canvas, as finding and combining the right subtle tonal gradations was a priority for him and usually the subject of long deliberations. in any case, hessing had generally avoided going public with his pictorial creations too quickly. while in his earlier years he still primarily used colour in a more fluid manner, here he prefers a meticulously composed colour mosaic, to which the components of this still life - a table with a bowl full of fruit and a pale female torso at the right edge of the picture - are subordinated in such a way that undoubted identification seems almost impossible. hessing studied at the vienna academy of fine arts from 1926 to 1931 under ferdinand andri, who was devoted to heimatkunst throughout his life, and the animal painter carl fahringer, who created in a late impressionist-expressionist mixed style. apart from a solid training in painting technique, hessing obviously did not receive any further impulses to consolidate his own personal style. after he began painting as a freelance artist in 1932, he was banned by the national socialists from 1938 from both painting and exhibiting. during the war, hessing was to lose everything: not only his homeland, which became part of the soviet union, but also his mother and many other family members, who were murdered. through expropriation, he also lost his fortune in one fell swoop. although registered as an opponent of the regime by the gestapo, he remained in vienna as a submarine, where he was able to survive the war years thanks to the help of friends. after the end of the war, he co-founded the artists' association \"der kreis\" in 1946 and joined the secession as a member between 1958 and 1960 and from 1969. in his late work, he was primarily concerned with the tachisme movement and created mainly 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33,5 cm \n monogrammed and dated 74 \n verso signed, titled and dated sun flowers in red vase, klaudus 974 \n provenance: private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 2.000 - 4.000 \n \n austrian painter, educator and publicist of the 20th century. representative of representational painting. came from a croatian farmers family in burgenland, studied at the academy of fine arts in zagreb. from 1926 teacher in deutschkreutz, together in a group of artists with alfred pahr and franz erntl as a counter-position to albert kollmann and franz elek-eiweck. member of the burgenland art association, wrote for the croatian newspaper hrvatske novine. after the war, school inspector for oberpullendorf, editor of the magazine naše selo and collaborator with the youth newspaper mladost. founded the burgenland artists group in vienna in 1956 with rudolf kedl, karl prantl, wolfgang bambinger and feri zotter. regularly participated in the rabnitz painting weeks. influenced by croatian painters such as vladimir becic and ljubo babic, but also paul cezanne, henri matisse and vincent van gogh. in 2016 described in the exhibition at the landesgalerie burgenland as a \"painter of the colors\". created mainly color-intensive landscapes and still lifes. \n \n born into a croatian farming family in nebersdorf, now in burgenland, rudolf klaudus had to do military service in the first world war after graduating from high school in köszeg. afterwards he decided to study at the grafische lehr- und versuchsanstalt in vienna as well as at the academy of fine arts in zagreb, led at that time by the famous sculptor ivan meštrović. klaudus then worked in deutschkreutz as a painter and art teacher at the local secondary school until 1936 and as an inspector for the croatian school system in burgenland from 1936 to 1938. the new rulers of the hitler regime dismissed klaudus, who had assumed the function of a press officer of the front-line militia in 1936, from his school post and subsequently also placed him in \"protective custody\". in addition, he was banned from practising painting. after the end of the war he was rehabilitated and appointed as a school inspector. klaudus actively participated in the re-foundation of the burgenland art association, which had been crushed by the national socialists, and in 1955 he also took over the chairmanship. after its dissolution, klaudus withdrew from eisenstadt to vienna, where he founded the burgenland artists' group with artist friends in 1956 and remained its director until 1970. as a painter, klaudus found his way to a luminous colourfulness via neo-objective tendencies in the 1930s. in his rendering of what he saw, he also relied on typification, metaphorisation and de-individualisation, as this had also become a principle of many german expressionists who - like klaudus, obviously - were inspired by the expressive original folk art and children's art. this enthusiasm also speaks especially from the still life with the sunflowers in the deep red vase on the blue tablecloth, which with the struck colour chord also evokes associations with folk art products."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"231","title":{"de":"rudolf klaudus* (großwarasdorf 1895 - 1979 eisenstadt)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17430/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":2000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:36.028Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,000 - \u20ac4,000","currency":"EUR","id":17430,"estimateMin":2000},{"startPrice":3500,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17431/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17431/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17431/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"hermann serient* (born 1935 in melk)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"hermann serient* \n (born 1935 in melk) \n vampires, 1969 \n oil and egg tempera/wood, 24,4 x 25 cm \n signed serient and dated 1969 \n verso label gallery peithner lichtenfels 1969, titled vampire \n provenance: private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 4.000 - 8.000 \n \n austrian artist of the 20th century. lives and works in vienna and southern burgenland. completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the wiener arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and traveled through europe by car stop. he experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the orf. from the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, social and environmental themes in his work. works in old master technique like the representatives of magic realism and the viennese school of fantastic realism ernst fuchs, arik brauer, rudolf hausner and wolfgang hutter. interest in works by hieronymus bosch and pieter breughel. grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements as in surrealism. themes and motifs always related to the present, social criticism and pointing out environmental destruction. also comic and humorous elements as in the depictions of the vampire. luminosity of colors by mixing the pigments, oil paints and egg tempera. 2005 and 2015 exhibitions at the landesgalerie burgenland in eisenstadt. \n \n when hermann serient, a young goldsmith and jazz musician from melk, hitchhiked in the 1950s, financed by engagements as a trombonist and drummer, to see the art of the \"old masters\" up close in europe's museums, he was particularly interested for the painting of hieronymus bosch or bruegel, for the handling of the material by dutch renaissance painters. like these, seriet always uses his own paints, which he does not mix on the palette but applies to the picture support, preferably wood, in many thin layers until he achieves the desired color tone. in 1965, serient moved to the south of burgenland, where he completely relocated his life for a few years and where he still lives today. the archaic and hermetic world that he found in the villages of the \"heanzen\" appeared to the city dweller serient as completely new and incomprehensible; however, he quickly made friends personally. the fascination he felt in view of the primitive building forms, the different way of speaking and clothing in every village and last but not least the traditional festivals and rituals, which must have seemed mysterious and bizarre to the outsider, became a main source of inspiration for the artist and also found outside of his famous heanzen -cycle their precipitation. originally characterized by caricature and influenced by the expressionism of george grosz or alfred kubin, the densely populated sceneries now showed clear parallels to his new role models bosch and bruegel. he was often pigeonholed with the viennese artists of fantastic realism, which serialt has always rejected. for him, art only has value if it has content and doesn't lose itself in random whimsicality. thus, series not only took sides for the declining, independent culture of the heanzen, but increasingly dealt with environmental issues and other political issues. the vampire, before whom the two much smaller men bow in awe, is a barely encoded warning against charlatanry, paternalism and exploitation. the profiteers of social inequality appear here as creepy bloodsuckers."},"estimateMax":8000,"lotNumber":"232","title":{"de":"hermann serient* (born 1935 in melk)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17431/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":3500,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:36.034Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac4,000 - \u20ac8,000","currency":"EUR","id":17431,"estimateMin":4000},{"startPrice":30000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17432/001/001.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"hermann serient* (born 1935 in melk)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"hermann serient* \n (born 1935 in melk) \n dracula's night, 1969-70 \n oil and egg tempera/plate, 184,5 x 88,5 cm \n verso signed, titled and dated serient einladung zur draculanacht öl 1969/1970, privatsammlung wien \n provenance: acquired from the artist, gallery peithner lichtenfels, private collection vienna, fine arts widder vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 40.000 - 80.000 \n \n austrian artist of the 20th century. lives and works in vienna and southern burgenland. completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the wiener arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and traveled through europe by car stop. he experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the orf. from the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, social and environmental themes in his work. works in old master technique like the representatives of magic realism and the viennese school of fantastic realism ernst fuchs, arik brauer, rudolf hausner and wolfgang hutter. interest in works by hieronymus bosch and pieter breughel. grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements as in surrealism. themes and motifs always related to the present, social criticism and pointing out environmental destruction. also comic and humorous elements as in the depictions of the vampire, flying witches and fantasy creatures. luminosity of colors by mixing the pigments, oil paints and egg tempera. 2005 and 2015 exhibitions at the landesgalerie burgenland in eisenstadt. \n \n when hermann serient, a young goldsmith and jazz musician from melk, hitchhiked in the 1950s, financed by engagements as a trombonist and drummer, to see the art of the \"old masters\" up close in europe's museums, he was particularly interested for the painting of hieronymus bosch or bruegel, for the handling of the material by dutch renaissance painters. like these, seriet always uses his own paints, which he does not mix on the palette but applies to the picture support, preferably wood, in many thin layers until he achieves the desired color tone. in 1965, serient moved to the south of burgenland, where he completely relocated his life for a few years and where he still lives today. the archaic and hermetic world that he found in the villages of the \"heanzen\" appeared to the city dweller serient as completely new and incomprehensible; however, he quickly made friends personally. the fascination he felt in view of the primitive building forms, the different way of speaking and clothing in every village and last but not least the traditional festivals and rituals, which must have seemed mysterious and bizarre to the outsider, became a main source of inspiration for the artist and also found outside of his famous heanzen -cycle their precipitation. originally characterized by caricature and influenced by the expressionism of george grosz or alfred kubin, the densely populated sceneries now showed clear parallels to his new role models bosch and bruegel. he was often pigeonholed with the viennese artists of fantastic realism, which serialt has always rejected. for him, art only has value if it has content and doesn't lose itself in random whimsicality. thus, series not only took sides for the declining, independent culture of the heanzen, but increasingly dealt with environmental issues and other political issues. in the draculanacht the fantastical elements and also the erotic connotation of the vampire theme, as clearly hinted at in bram stoker's famous dracula novel, come to the fore more strongly than the socially critical content. a gentleman in tails makes advances to a woman who is only wearing a grotesque hat. through the twilight, three more naked female figures fly in from afar. creepy rosy appetizers are served in the foreground."},"estimateMax":80000,"lotNumber":"233","title":{"de":"hermann serient* (born 1935 in melk)"},"url":"https://da.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/widder/source/catalog/auction/21398/lot/17432/view","tags":["daFineart_Paintings","daFineart","daFineart_all"],"directSalePrice":30000,"fullPriceVat":true,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-09T15:41:36.037Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac40,000 - \u20ac80,000","currency":"EUR","id":17432,"estimateMin":40000},{"startPrice":2000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17433/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17433/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/widder/cloned-images/17433/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"de":"hermann serient* (born 1935 in melk)"},"available":false,"description":{"de":"hermann serient* \n (born 1935 in melk) \n encounter, 2020 \n oil and egg tempera/plate, 29,8 x 23,8 cm \n signed serient and dated 2020 \n verso inscribed begegnung öl eitempera 2020 \n provenance: private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 2.000 - 4.000 \n \n austrian artist of the 20th century. lives and works in vienna and southern burgenland. completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the wiener arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and traveled through europe by car stop. he experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the orf. from the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, social and environmental themes in his work. works in old master technique like the representatives of magic realism and the viennese school of fantastic realism ernst fuchs, arik brauer, rudolf hausner and wolfgang hutter. interest in works by hieronymus bosch and pieter breughel. grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements as in 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completely relocated his life for a few years and where he still lives today. the archaic and hermetic world that he found in the villages of the \"heanzen\" appeared to the city dweller serient as completely new and incomprehensible; however, he quickly made friends personally. the fascination he felt in view of the primitive building forms, the different way of speaking and clothing in every village and last but not least the traditional festivals and rituals, which must have seemed mysterious and bizarre to the outsider, became a main source of inspiration for the artist and also found outside of his famous heanzen -cycle their precipitation. originally characterized by caricature and influenced by the expressionism of george grosz or alfred kubin, the densely populated sceneries now showed clear parallels to his new role models bosch and bruegel. he was often pigeonholed with the viennese artists of fantastic realism, which serialt has always rejected. for him, art only has value if it has content and doesn't lose itself in random whimsicality. thus, series not only took sides for the declining, independent culture of the heanzen, but increasingly dealt with environmental issues and other political issues.the masks that appear again and again in serients pictures are not only about the carnivalesque, about exuberant masquerade and mummery, but also about falsehood and hypocrisy, about being and appearance, about the control over the image that others have or should have of you. whimsicality and lovability; silliness and despicableness; joke and serious argument - these things are not easy to separate in series. aesthetics plays a special role for the trained goldsmith: the eye-catching colors and details are not ends in themselves, they are not intended to cover anything, but on the contrary serve to uncover or uncover. once serient gets the viewer to look at the colors, they may see behind the colorful facade and discover other, less obvious facets and 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inscribed wohnwagen zyklus \n provenance: private property vienna \n \n \n estimate °\u20ac 2.500 - 4.000 \n \n austrian artist of the 20th century. lives and works in vienna and southern burgenland. completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the wiener arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and traveled through europe by car stop. he experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the orf. from the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, social and environmental themes in his work. works in old master technique like the representatives of magic realism and the viennese school of fantastic realism ernst fuchs, arik brauer, rudolf hausner and wolfgang hutter. interest in works by hieronymus bosch and pieter breughel. grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements as in surrealism. themes and motifs always related to the present, social criticism and pointing out environmental 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