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345 - Lois Pregartbauer*
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Estimate €300 - €500
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Lois Pregartbauer* (Misselsdorf 1899 – 1971 Vienna) Bouquet of flowers pastel on paper 47.5 x 35.5 cm ESTIMATE °€ 300 – € 500 STARTING PRICE °€ 300 Lois Pregartbauer (Alois Pregartbauer, Louis Pregartbauer, Luis Pregartbauer) was an Austrian painter and draughtsman. He studied briefly at the Academy of Fine Arts, the Technische Hochschule (Technical College) and the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) in Vienna, and took private lessons from Erich Wagner (Vienna Kineticism) and stage designer Remigius Geyling. Essentially, Pregartbauer is regarded as self-taught. He was a member of the Hagenbund, Vienna (1931–38), the Vienna Künstlerhaus (1938–45 and from 1963) and the Vienna Secession (1946–63). Stylistically, Pregartbauer’s work—from the ‘New Objectivity’ of the early 1930s to the constructivist tendencies after 1945—remained predominantly committed to representational art. He achieved his greatest mastery in charcoal drawing and pastel painting. In 1937, Lois Pregartbauer was part of the founding collective for the cultural magazine *Plan*, which was banned in 1938 and republished in 1945. In 1946, he worked on the founding programme for the Linz School of Art (founding president 1947–1949: Karl Hauk). Pregartbauer worked in the technical department of the Wiener Verkehrsbetriebe (Vienna Public Transport) from 1913 to 1950 and served in the military during both world wars. Other artists and styles: Rudolf Bacher, Karl Sterrer, Graz Art Association, Vienna Secession, Hagenbund, Styrian Modernism, Sacred Art Austria, Landscape Painting, New Objectivity, pastel painting 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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