OTTO ERICH WAGNER* (Kleppel 1895 - 1979 Vienna)Churchpencil/...

Estimate

€800 - €1,500

OTTO ERICH WAGNER*
(Kleppel 1895 - 1979 Vienna)
Church
pencil/paper, 38.5 x 27.2 cm
estate stamp Otto Erich Wagner
provenance: private collection Vienna

ESTIMATE °€ 800 - 1.500
STARTING PRICE °€ 600

Austrian artist and art educator. After his war service, Otto Erich Wagner studied with Franz Čižek and Rudolf Larisch at the Vienna School of Applied Arts, and from 1924 he was an assistant teacher in Čižek's class for general form theory. In addition, he taught interior and garden architecture. In 1925 he participated in the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris. After Čižek's retirement, Wagner was taken over by Ceno Kosak. He also taught at the Franz-Joseph-Realgymnasium. During World War II and under the Nazi regime, he continued to work at the School of Arts and Crafts as an assistant teacher. In 1944/45 Wagner was conscripted and sent to Yugoslavia. After his return from captivity, he joined the Vienna Secession in 1949 and worked as a freelance artist. Wagner's works were influenced by Viennese Kinetism, whose most important representative was Erika Giovanna Klien. Wagner, who 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 Čižek and Rudolf Larisch, ranks among the abstract artists in interwar Austria along with Elisabeth Karlinsky, Erika Giovanna Klien, My Ullmann, Karl Steiner, and Alois Wachsmann. It is thanks to Franz Čižek and his course in ornamental form theory that the tendencies toward abstraction that had begun in France and Italy before World War I were now also being considered in Austria as a stylistic alternative to the prevailing representational mode of representation. Otto Erich Wagner, who had been friends with 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 twenties was based
on Italian Futurism and attempted to introduce the rhythms of movement
and sounds into the two-dimensionality of the picture plane.
Because very few of Čižek's students went on to the Wiener Werkstätten
or other companies, this art movement disappeared from the scene again
disappeared from the scene within a few years. In Wagner's kineticist oeuvre, suggestions from Giacomo Balla, Johannes Itten, Franz Marc, Picasso and Kandinsky, Robert Delaunay or El Lissitzky also shimmer through.

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