GUSTAV ADOLF AST* (Hamburg 1905 - 1989 Hamburg)Nocturnal sti...

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€800 - €1,500

GUSTAV ADOLF AST*
(Hamburg 1905 - 1989 Hamburg)
Nocturnal still life with dice and bust, 1946
watercolor/paper, 46 x 59 cm
signed Ast, dated 46, inscribed Stilleben mit Büste
provenance: private collection Germany

ESTIMATE °€ 800 - 1.500
STARTING PRICE °€ 800

Austrian painter and sculptor of the 20th century. Representative of exile art, belongs to the so-called lost or forgotten generation. Came from a Jewish family and initially worked as an actor. As a painter self-taught, exhibited from the 1920s in the Vienna Secession, the Hagenbund and the Würthle Gallery. From 1932 member of the Hagenbund. From the mid-1930s also sculptor, 1935 stay at Bedfordshire estate in England. 1938 emigration via London to Mousehole in Cornwall. His wife ran the gallery ARRA Gallery with artists such as Jack Pender or Alexander Mackenzie of the artist colony St. Ives. Lifelong friendship with gallery owner Jacques O'Hana. 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.

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