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a set of twelve lithographic prints of various types of artan image of a picture of a group of animals in a fielda painting of a man standing in front of a buildinga picture of a picture of a city with birds flying over itan image of a painting of a skeleton and a man pointing at somethinga picture of a picture of a horse eating from a bowla painting of a man sitting on top of a skullan image of a picture of a person with a hat onan image of a painting of a man and a woman standing in front of a mirrora picture of a fish that is floating in the wateran image of a painting of a person standing in front of a full moonan image of a picture of a picture of a paintingthe cover of a book with a picture of a man on a skateboardan open book with a black and white image of a man in a suitan open book with black writing on a white background
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268 - Axl Leskoschek*
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Estimate €500 - €800
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Axl Leskoschek* (Graz 1889 – 1976 Vienna) Cain cycle Set of 11 linocuts linocut on paper, 31.7 x 24 cm cover signed Axl Leskoschek numbered 64, inscribed ‘This copy bears the number 64’ ESTIMATE €500 – €800 STARTING PRICE €500 Axl Leskoschek (born Albert von Leskoschek on 3 September 1889 in Graz, Austria; died 12 February 1976 in Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian painter and illustrator. He initially studied law until 1917, before being called up to fight in the First World War, during which he was seriously wounded. After the war, he studied art at the Art School in Graz, where his teacher was Alfred Schrötter, and in Vienna, where his teacher was Alfred Cossmann. Leskoschek’s political views were socialist. Until 1934, he worked as an editor for the social-democratic newspaper *Arbeiterwille*. From 1920, he also worked as an illustrator for various books. For example, he produced woodcuts for two volumes published by the highly popular ‘Insel-Bücherei’ in 1926 and 1967. Leskoschek was a founding member of the important artists’ group Secession in Graz in 1937. For his illustrations and graphic works, he was awarded the “Österreichischer Staatspreis” (Austrian State Prize) in 1925. Leskoschek ran into trouble because of his political activism; he was imprisoned in 1934, 1935 and 1936. He joined the Communist Party in 1934 and was forced to flee Austria in 1938 when the Nazis came to power. With the help of a Christian church organisation, he was able to flee to Brazil, where he worked from 1941 until 1948 as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro. In 1948, Axl Leskoschek returned to Austria. A retrospective was held in Graz in 1971, followed by a second one in Vienna in 1974. The artist died two years later in Vienna. Other artists and styles: Rudolf Bacher, Josef Matthias Delug, Hagenbund, New Objectivity, satirical graphics, woodcut, exile painting, Graz Künstlerhaus, The Musket, Graz Secession, Werkbund Freiland, Alfred Schrötter, Alfred Cossmann 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 statutory 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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