CARRY HAUSER* (Vienna 1895 - 1985 Rekawinkel)Missionary work...

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€1,000 - €2,000

CARRY HAUSER*
(Vienna 1895 - 1985 Rekawinkel)
Missionary work
gouache/paper, 24 x 16.8 cm
monogrammed CH
depicted in Carry Hauser, Vienna 2018, p. 79, Fig. 229
provenance: private collection Vienna

ESTIMATE °€ 1.000 - 2.000
STARTING PRICE °€ 1.000

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.

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