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Heribert Potuznik*
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342
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Heribert Potuznik*
See original version (German)
Estimate €100 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
Heribert Potuznik*
(Vienna 1910 – 1984 Mistelbach)
Set of 3 etchings
1| Poritiki, 1969
etching on paper 14.6 x 30 cm
signed, dated and inscribed on the plate H. Potuznik 69 Poritiki
estate stamp on the reverse
2| Landscape, 1972
etching on paper 3.5 x 44.7 cm
signed and dated on the plate H. Potuznik 72
estate stamp on the reverse
3| Fram House, 1972
etching on paper 34.5 x 45 cm
signed and dated on the plate H. Potuznik 72
ESTIMATE €100 – €200
STARTING PRICE €100
Heribert Potuznik was an Austrian artist. He worked as a painter, graphic artist, fresco artist and mosaic artist. As a painter, he primarily created landscapes, mostly of the Weinviertel and the Adriatic region; he also produced nudes, portraits and still lifes. Stylistically, he moved between realism, expressionism, cubism and abstraction. Potuznik’s mosaics, frescoes and sgraffito works were created in Vienna, Hollabrunn, Fischamend, Petronell, Großnondorf, Hainburg, Haugsdorf, Breitenwaida, Jetzelsdorf, Wullersdorf and other locations. From 1925 to 1929, Potuznik completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer, after which he received artistic training from Karl Josef Gunsam. Through this, he became part of the circle of artist friends around H. Steiner, F. Stransky, Ernst Paar and Hanns Letz. A member of the Hagenbund in 1937–1938, Potuznik studied painting at the Danzig Art School under A. Finkel from 1938 to 1940, after which he served in the military until 1945. He was taken prisoner and returned to Vienna in 1946. From 1947 to 1956, Potuznik was a member of the Viennese artists’ association “Der Kreis”; he later moved to the Vienna Künstlerhaus. From 1947, he maintained residences in Vienna and Lower Austria, and from 1961 onwards solely in Lower Austria; most recently in Großnondorf. Study trips took him to Germany, Italy, the Adriatic region and Zambia (1978 and 1979). Solo exhibitions: 1955 Neue Galerie Graz (with H. Stockbauer), 1958, 1961 and 1970 at the Vienna Künstlerhaus, 1985 at the Austrian Gallery, Vienna, and a commemorative exhibition in 2010 (marking his 100th birthday) at the Hollabrunn City Museum “Alte Hofmühle”. His works are included in the collections of the Belvedere, the Albertina, the Lower Austria State Museum, the Vienna Museum, the Rupertinum State Museum in Salzburg, the Rivoltella Museum in Trieste and the National Museum in Stockholm. Awards and honours (selection): 1965 Gold Medal of Honour from the State of Lower Austria; 1970 Gold Medal of Honour from the Vienna Künstlerhaus; 1975 the title of ‘Professor’; 1983 Golden Laurel from the Vienna Künstlerhaus. Further artists and styles: Fauvism, Cubism, Constructivism, Lithography, Etching, Woodcut, Painting, Drawing, Graphic Art, Hagenbund, Der Kreis, Strohkoffer, Künstlerhaus, Karl Josef Gunsam, Josef Dobrowsky, Carry Hauser, Georg Pevetz, Franz Elsner, Helene Funke, Karl Sterrer, Rudolf Bacher, Vienna Secession
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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