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152 - Karl Heinz Hansen-Bahia*
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Estimate €1,000 - €2,000
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Karl Heinz Hansen-Bahia* (Hamburg 1915 – 1978 São Paulo) 22 colour woodcuts for Lucian’s *Dialogues of the Courtesans*, 1971 colour woodcut on paper, 52.8 x 39 cm signed Hansen-Bahia ESTIMATE °€ 1,000 – € 2,000 STARTING PRICE €1,000 German painter, graphic artist and woodcut artist of the Expressionist movement. Born on 19 April 1915 in Hamburg as Karl-Heinz Hansen, he learnt the craft of painting from 1930 to 1933, served in the Imperial German Navy from 1935 to 1936 and as a soldier until 1945, and studied independently under Paul Borchers and Fritz Schirrmacher; emigrated to Brazil in 1949, changed his name to Hansen-Bahia in 1966, became a professor of graphic art at the Federal University of Salvador da Bahia (from 1967), and taught in Ethiopia (1963–1966) and Colombia. From 1946 onwards, Hansen-Bahia created monumental woodcut series such as ‘Totentanz’ (1946) and ‘Christus und Thomas’ (1947), religious and socially critical cycles featuring expressive, archaic forms, murals in Bahia and book illustrations; influenced by Brazil with tropical motifs and ancient themes (e.g. the ‘Odysseus’ series). Related artists and terms: Paul Borchers, Fritz Schirrmacher, Otto Larsen, Pietro Maria Bardi, Jorge Amado, Lina Bo Bardi, woodcut expressionism, Salvador da Bahia, Museu de Arte São Paulo, Burg Tittmoning, Gripenberg Foundation, Stations of the Cross series, Brazilian modernism PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price comprises the highest bid plus the buyer’s premium, sales tax 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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