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two black and white drawings of a man on a horse and a woman on a horsea black and white drawing of a skeleton sitting on a pile of skullsan image of a black and white drawing of a woman sitting on a chairan image of a drawing of a man standing on a pile of rubblea drawing of a bird sitting on top of a pile of rocksa close up of a piece of paper with a poem on it
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46 - Wolfgang Defant*
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Estimate €150 - €300
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Wolfgang Defant* (born 1957 in Stockholm) Set comprising 1 drawing and 1 woodcut 1| The problem of the world, 1996 pencil on paper 29.4 x 21 cm signed Defant, dated 9.18.96 inscribed: ‘Leben lassen: das Problem der Welt’ For Inge and Erich Fitzbauer 2| Circus world, 1986 woodcut on paper 22.5 x 17.8 cm signed Defant, dated 86 inscribed ‘For Erich Fitzbauer’ ESTIMATE €150 – €300 STARTING PRICE €150 Contemporary Austrian painter and graphic artist. Born in Stockholm in 1957, he has lived in Kiel since 1961, where he studied graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences under Fritz Bauer from 1978 to 1984 and took part in state and local exhibitions from 1980 onwards. In 1987, he was awarded a Rome scholarship by the state of Schleswig-Holstein, became guild master of the Innviertler Künstlergilde in 1989, and took on teaching posts at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel from 1991 to 1992. Numerous solo exhibitions followed, including in Kiel, Lübeck, Berlin, Miami and Barcelona. Defant is known for his expressive, often figurative paintings featuring surreal-looking pictorial spaces, striking colour contrasts and narrative cycles such as the ‘Don Juan’ cycle, which oscillate between reality and imagination. Further artists and styles: Fritz Bauer, Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel, Innviertler Künstlergilde, Bunker D Kiel, Heissingsart, PULSE Art Fair Miami, Art Karlsruhe, Expressionism, Figuration, Picture cycles, Don Juan cycle, Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Rome Scholarship PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price comprises the highest bid plus the buyer’s premium, VAT and, where applicable, the artists’ resale rights fee and platform fee. In the case of standard taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13 per cent (20 per cent for photographs) is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer’s premium and the platform fee. The buyer’s premium amounts to 28 per cent in the case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
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