€15,000
HERBERT GURSCHNER*
(Innsbruck 1901 - 1975 London)
Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden, 1939
oil/canvas, 114 x 80.5 cm
signed Gurschner, dated 1939
depicted in Herbert Gurschner, a Tyrolean in London, Vienna 2000, p. 110, Fig. 101
exhibited in the City Archives Stadtmuseum Innbruck, 2002
provenance: estate of the artist, Kunsthandel Widder, private collection
ESTIMATE °€ 15.000 - 30.000
STARTING PRICE °€ 15.000
Austrian painter and stage designer of the 20th century especially the interwar period. Representatives of Tyrolean modernism such as Artur Nikodem, Ernst Nepo, Wilhelm N. Prachensky, Hans Tyrol-Weber, etc. Stylistic development between Expressionism and New Objectivity. Nephew of the sculptors Emil and Gustav Gurschner. Attended the School of Arts and Crafts in Innsbruck and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1918 to 1920. In 1920 he lived in Mühlau in Innsbruck, exhibited with the Mühlau Circle around Alfons Schnegg, Rudolf Lehnert and Ernst Nepo. Early 1920s landscapes and cityscapes from travels through Tyrol, Salzburg and Italy. 1924 Married the English noblewoman Dolores Cherwadsky-Damarkow, established contacts with London artist and collector circles. 1929 first exhibition at the London Fine Art Society. Contacts with aristocratic, diplomatic and business circles, exhibitions in London and New York. Marriage to second wife Brenda Davidoff. In addition to landscapes, he also created nudes and portraits, such as that of the Swedish Crown Prince Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustav Adolf Bernadotte (1882 - 1973), who was to ascend the Swedish royal throne as Gustav VI Adolf in 1950.
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