HERBERT GURSCHNER* (Innsbruck 1901 - 1975 London)The last sa...

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€10,000 - €15,000

HERBERT GURSCHNER*
(Innsbruck 1901 - 1975 London)
The last sacrament, 1925
oil/canvas, 50 x 69 cm
signed Herbert Gurschner
depicted in Herbert Gurschner, a Tyrolean in London, Vienna 2000, p. 102, Fig. 93
Exhibited in Fine Art Society, London 1929, City Archives Stadtmuseum Innbruck, 2002
provenance: estate of the artist, Kunsthandel Widder, international private collection

ESTIMATE °€ 10.000 - 15.000
STARTING PRICE °€ 10.000

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. Besides landscapes and portraits, also created nudes.

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