€400
JOSEF HUMPLIK*
(Vienna 1888 - 1958 Vienna)
Pietà, 1920
bronze, 19.5 cm
monogrammed J. H., numbered 4/6, later cast
provenance: private collection Vienna
ESTIMATE °€ 400 - 800
STARTING PRICE °€ 400
The Austrian sculptor, painter, medalist and graphic artist Josef Humplik attended the ceramic technical school in Znojmo from 1902-1905, then the Vienna School of Applied Arts (1905-1909) with Edmund Hellmer and Arthur Strasser and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (from 1910). He participated in exhibitions of the Vienna Secession and the Hagenbund. He was successively a member of the Hagenbund, the Vienna Secession, the Genossenschaft bildender Künstler (Künstlerhaus) and the Neue Secession. During the First World War he was a soldier and war painter. Afterwards he specialized in portrait busts and created those of Alban Berg, Ferdinand Ebner, Ludwig von Ficker, Jodok Fink, Anton Hanak, Georg Jahoda, Gustav Klimt, Karl Kraus, Arnold Schönberg, Anton Webern and Grete Wiesenthal. Humplik worked for the Vienna Burgtheater and also for the Augarten Porcelain Manufactory. In 1933 he took off the death mask of Adolf Loos. In 1937 Humplik was awarded the title of professor, in 1931 the Austrian State Prize, in 1932 the State Prize Medal, in 1934 the State Honorary Prize. In 1936 he received an Olympic recognition prize in Berlin (XI Olympic Games), in 1950 the prize of the Association of Austrian Industrialists, and in 1952 the Prize of the City of Vienna for Fine Arts. Since 1921 Humplik was married to the poet and artist Hildegard Jone.
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