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a drawing of a bird that is flying in the skya black and white drawing of a dog laying on the ground
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Anton Lehmden* (Nitra 1929 – 2018 Vienna) Bird flight etching on paper, 44.3 x 32.6 cm signed Anton Lehmden, numbered 148/300 ESTIMATE €60 – €100 STARTING PRICE €60 Anton Lehmden, from Neutra in Czechoslovakia, was an Austrian painter and graphic artist. He moved to Vienna in 1945 to study at the Academy of Fine Arts. His teachers there included Albert Paris Gütersloh and Robin Christian Andersen. He first exhibited his works at the Art Club in 1948. Lehmden’s paintings were, and remain, inspired by landscapes and nature – birds are among his favourite motifs. However, he was also influenced by his experiences during the Second World War and, later, by the architecture he encountered whilst travelling. The painter drew inspiration from Chinese landscape painting and from old masters such as Pieter Bruegel and Hieronymus Bosch. Along with Rudolf Hausner and his fellow students Ernst Fuchs, Wolfgang Hutter and Arik Brauer, Anton Lehmden was one of the founders and leading figures of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. Lehmden held his first solo exhibition in Turin in 1949. Numerous other international exhibitions followed. Lehmden took part in the Venice Biennale (1950, 1952) and the São Paulo Biennial (1953); his works have been exhibited in Philadelphia, Amsterdam, Cairo, Los Angeles, New York, Montevideo and Tokyo, amongst other places. In 1962–1963, Lehmden taught in Istanbul, where the paintings in St George’s Church, which belongs to the Austrian St George’s College, are among the artist’s major works. Anton Lehmden led the painting class at the Salzburg Summer Academy in 1969 and 1975. From 1971 to 1997, Anton Lehmden was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and head of the masterclass in painting. Lehmden designed the 360 m² glass mosaic ‘The Making of Nature’ for the Volkstheater U3 station, which opened in 1991. In 2001, Lehmden played a significant role in the redesign of the parish church in his adopted home of Deutschkreutz. The artist had already acquired the Renaissance castle in Deutschkreutz, Burgenland, in 1966, gradually restoring it and converting it into a cultural centre. Literary and musical events have been held there since 2003, and the artist has been organising the ‘Lehmden Summer Academy’ since 2005. In 1999, Anton Lehmden was made an honorary citizen of Deutschkreutz. Other artists and styles: Ernst Fuchs, Wolfgang Hutter, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner, Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, Arcadia Myth, Alchemy, Woodcut, Vienna Secession, Master Prize City of Vienna 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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