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Description
Ernst Paar*
(Graz 1906 – 1986 Vienna)
Stuttgart, 1969
watercolour and pencil on paper, 26.5 x 34.4 cm
signed ‘Paar’, dated ‘69’
inscribed ‘Stuttgar5t’
ESTIMATE €100 – €200
STARTING PRICE €100
The Austrian artist Ernst Paar completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer in Graz and, from 1922, attended evening classes at the state art school. After completing his apprenticeship, Paar moved to Germany, where he attended the Stuttgart Academy in 1926–27. In 1930, Paar travelled to Paris with his painter friend Hans Stockbauer and attended the Académie Julian there. In 1933 he moved to Vienna and worked as a graphic designer. At the same time, he made a name for himself as a member of the Graz Secession and the Hagenbund in Vienna with Cubist and New Objectivity works. Following the uprising of the Social Democratic Protection Association in 1934, he became part of the resistance circle centred on the Styrian architect Franz Schacherl in Vienna. He was a member of the exhibition committee at the Hagenbund and tried in vain to organise an exhibition of the Graz Secession there. During the Nazi dictatorship, he was conscripted into service as a commercial artist. Nevertheless, he continued to work as a freelance artist and offered cultural resistance by maintaining his modern style of painting. He was only able to exhibit once during the war, but this exhibition was closed early due to stylistic deviations towards ‘degenerate art’. In 1943, he was conscripted into the Wehrmacht. After the war, he worked as an assistant at the Academy of Applied Arts, but was dismissed in 1948 for having published a caricature critical of the government. In 1950, he held a solo exhibition at the Neue Galerie Graz. In 1951, he served as vice-president of the artists’ group “Der Kreis”, a highly influential artists’ association in Vienna alongside the Art Club. In 1963, he was awarded the Theodor Körner Prize and, in 1965, the City of Vienna Prize for Applied Arts. Other artists and styles: Hans Stockbauer, Franz Schacherl, Hagenbund, Secession Graz, New Objectivity Austria, Cubism Vienna, Artists’ Group “Der Kreis”, Art Club Vienna, Wilhelm Thöny, Max Beckmann, Hans Fronius
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