€2,000
KARL HAUK*
(Klosterneuburg 1898 - 1974 Vienna)
War, around 1923
mixed media/paper, 22 x 22 cm
provenance: estate of the artist, Widder art dealers in Vienna; International private collection
ESTIMATE °€ 1.000 - 2.000
STARTING PRICE °€ 1.000
Austrian artist of the 20th century, especially of the interwar period. Main representative of the New Objectivity, Expressionism and Social Critical Realism. Grew up in Linz in Upper Austria, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts with Alois Delug, Karl Sterrer and Josef Jungwirth. Member of the Hagenbund and the Maerz artists' association. Besides oil paintings, drawings and watercolors, created many works for public spaces, so-called Kunst am Bau projects. In 1928 frescoes for the Chamber of Labor in Linz, 1936 frescoes for the main train station in Linz and glass windows for the parish church in Sandleiten in Vienna. Friend of Clemens Holzmeister. Important representative of Christian art, in addition to church windows and mosaics, numerous religious paintings and watercolors. Created figure paintings, mosaics, frescoes and landscapes with motifs from the Salzkammergut region around Lake Attersee. 2022 Retrospective "Karl Hauk" in the Lentos Art Museum Linz.
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