ARTUR NIKODEM (Trient 1870 - 1940 Innsbruck)Istanbul, 1917mi...

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€3,000 - €4,000

ARTUR NIKODEM
(Trient 1870 - 1940 Innsbruck)
Istanbul, 1917
mixed media/paper, 29 x 30.8 cm
signed A. Nikodem, dated 1917
provenance: Wienerroither & Kohlbacher Vienna, international private collection

ESTIMATE °€ 3.000 - 4.000
STARTING PRICE °€ 3.000

Artur Nikodem studied painting in Munich with Franz Defregger and Friedrich August Christian Siegmund Kaulbach before going to Milan to Alcide Davide Campestrini and to Florence. During his military service in the navy, he experienced the Mediterranean as far as Egypt. In 1893 he moved to Merano, where he lived until 1908, when he returned to Innsbruck with his family. In 1920 Nikodem, who had worked in the state postal service, was retired early and from then on he could devote himself entirely to painting. In the 1920s he had successful exhibitions in Austria and abroad, but during the National Socialist era he was expelled from various artists' associations; many of his works were confiscated as degenerate art and in some cases destroyed. In the period of the Second World War until his death in 1940 Artur Nikodem practiced his artistic activity only in private and without exhibition opportunities. Artur Nikodem was also active as a photographer and left behind a large photographic oeuvre with oriental motifs from his time as a k. u. k. Telegraph officer from 1916 to 1918 as well as photographs of his companions. His painterly work is characterized by Tyrolean landscape depictions. Nikodem's work is an important part of the Tyrolean modernism of the interwar period, which is characterized by the confrontation with the new movements of the Munich scene and yet is attached to the tradition of Tyrolean landscape painting. However, the roots of his painting also lie in Viennese Art Nouveau and Secessionism. According to Gert Artmann, his work "experienced the full opening in the direction of Cézanne and Rodin through the short stay in Paris.[...] In the twenties he approached the Expressionism of an Albin Egger-Lienz in some phases." The here presented work from the time of the First World War, that was supposed to bring down the Ottoman Empire, shows a lady in a music bar in Istanbul or Constantinople.

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