€10,000
CARRY HAUSER*
(Vienna 1895 - 1985 Rekawinkel)
Portrait of the mother, 1919
oil/cardboard, 34.5 x 29.7 cm
monogrammed ch, dated 19
depicted In catalogue raisonné Carry Hauser, Vienna 2012, p. 249 with WKVZNr. 1919 m 37 and in the exhibition catalog Carry Hauser, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna 2016
provenance: estate of the artist; Kunsthandle Widder, Vienna; European private collection
ESTIMATE °€ 8.000 - 10.000
STARTING PRICE °€ 8.000
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. Portrait of the artist's mother: Maria Hauser, born Linke.
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