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a watercolor painting of a train coming down the tracksa picture of a picture of a painting on the wall
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Estimate €200 - €400
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Alfred Karger* (Romania 1925 – 1978 Vienna) Landscape watercolour on paper, 30 x 46 cm signed A. Karger ESTIMATE €200 – €400 STARTING PRICE €200 Austrian painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. Born on 16 January 1925 in Odorheiu Secuiesc (Romania, Transylvania) to Austrian parents, he contracted polio at an early age and fled with his family to Vienna in 1945 to escape the Red Army. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Herbert Boeckl and Robin Christian Andersen from 1945 (graduating in 1953), married his colleague Annelise Karger, took part in exhibitions from 1948, became a member of the Vienna Secession (1950), and won prizes such as the Academy’s State Prize (1953) and the City of Vienna Prize (1967). Karger created still lifes, landscapes, portraits and nude drawings featuring precise studies of nature influenced by Cézanne and Boeckl, in oil, watercolour and drawing; he achieved late-career mastery in watercolour with Viennese rooftop motifs viewed from a window, created mosaics with his wife Annelise for public buildings, and distanced himself from action art. Related artists and terms: Herbert Boeckl, Robin Christian Andersen, Annelise Karger, Paul Cézanne, Vienna Secession, Neumarkt Summer Academy, nature studies, Viennese rooftop silhouettes, Albertina Vienna, Belvedere, Rupertinum Salzburg 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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Auction time 09/30/2026 at 10:00 AM
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