€5,000 - €8,000
OTTO RUDOLF SCHATZ*
(Vienna 1900 - 1961 Vienna)
Weissenkirchen, around 1958
oil/cardboard, 42 x 34 cm
monogrammed ORS
online catalogue raisonné M 1958 3
depicted in Cabuk, Schatz, 2018, p. 237
provenance: gallery Altstadt Krems, private property of Lower Austria
ESTIMATE € 5.000 - 8.000
STARTING PRICE € 5.000
Austrian painter and graphic artist of the 20th century of the interwar period. Studied at the arts and crafts school with Anton von Kenner, Franz Cizek and Oskar Strnad. First worked as a graphic artist and illustrator for Arthur Roessler and Josef Luitpold Stern. 1928 to 1938 member of the Hagenbund, from 1946 member of the Vienna Secession. Lived during the Second World War with his Jewish wife in Prague and Brno. 1944 internment to Gräditz concentration camp, 1945 liberation from Soviet troops. Created woodcuts, watercolors, urban images, socially critical work and murals, but also mosaics and graffiti for residential buildings. Early interest in work by Egon Schiele, development between expressionism and new objectivity. In the 1920s and 1930s, woodcuts in the style of the new objectivity, among other things, also erotic motifs. Including explicit representations of lovemaking and physical lust and passion.
PLEASE NOTE:
The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium.
The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
Fees apply to the hammer price:
Free Registration
31.6% inc VAT*
Flat Fee Registration
28.00% inc VAT*
