ANTON VELIM* (Vienna 1892 - 1954 Vienna)Widow, around 1919-1...

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€16,000

ANTON VELIM*
(Vienna 1892 - 1954 Vienna)
Widow, around 1919-1920
oil/canvas, 186 x 270 cm
exhibited in the Vienna Secession 1923
depicted in catalog Anton Velim 1892 - 1954, Vienna 2006, p. 23
provenance: estate of the artist, Walfischgasse Gallery, Kunsthandel Widder, Vienna, international private collection

ESTIMATE °€ 10.000 - 15.000
STARTING PRICE °€ 10.000

From 1908 to 1912 Anton Velim attended the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Alois Delug. In 1910 he worked at the Vienna Hunting Exhibition under Alfred Roller, and in 1913 he designed postcards for the Wiener Werkstätte and exhibited at the Vienna Secession. Other early successes: Gundel Prize in 1916, L'Allemand Prize in 1919, Rome Prize in 1920. His clients included the Wittgenstein family, for whom Josef Hoffmann also worked. In the 1920s Velim participated in the Grinzinger artists' colony. In 1927 he received the Austrian State Prize. With the dissolution of the Grinzinger Artists' Colony and the loss of his studio, Velim failed to achieve success and became impoverished. In 1933 he had one last exhibition at the Vienna Secession, and in 1936 his sports depictions were shown at the Olympia exhibition in Berlin. Subsequently he worked as a vocational school teacher. In 1946 he became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus, where he exhibited in 1954, shortly before his death, participating in the show "100 years of the rise of a class". In 1954 he also received the Honorary Prize of the City of Vienna. Velim began with Art Nouveau works, his focus shifted to the depiction of the working man, so that he has been spoken of as the "Egger-Lienz of the proletariat". Velim's art was appreciated by both Albin Egger-Lienz and Anton Hanak; Walter Maria Neuwirth has written about Velim's artistic path towards dematerialized painting.

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