1 / 2
Widder Auktionen
393
-
Hermann Serient*
See original version (German)
393
-
Hermann Serient*
See original version (German)
Estimate €250 - €500
Voluntary lot
Description
Hermann Serient*
(born 1935 in Melk)
The Blinding, 2021
Indian ink on paper, 31.3 x 36.8 cm
Dated 1984.9.21., inscribed ‘Illustration for ELIAS CANETTI “Die Blendung”’
on the reverse, another sketch
ESTIMATE €250 – €500
STARTING PRICE €250
Austrian artist of the 20th century. Lives and works in Vienna and southern Burgenland. Completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith; lived in Vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the *Wiener Arbeiterzeitung* and jazz musician, and hitchhiked across Europe. He experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the ORF. From the 1970s onwards, as a forerunner of the environmental movement, his work focused on social and environmental themes. He works in the style of the old masters, like the representatives of Magic Realism and the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism: Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner and Wolfgang Hutter. He was interested in the works of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel. His art features grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements, as seen in Surrealism. Themes and motifs are always relevant to the present, offering social criticism and highlighting environmental destruction. He also incorporates comic and humorous elements, as seen in his depictions of vampires. The luminosity of his colours is achieved by mixing pigments, oil paints and egg tempera. He held exhibitions at the Landesgalerie Burgenland in Eisenstadt in 2005 and 2015. Other artists and styles: Surrealism, Franz Ringel, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, tempera, graphic art, printmaking, monotype, Wolfgang Hutter, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Edgar Jené, Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, Xenia Hausner, Anton Lehmden, Franz Radziwill, Fantastic Realism, Heanzen Cycle, Burgenland State Gallery, Modernism, votive paintings, egg tempera, jazz
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.
See original version (German)
Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
Pictures credits: Contact the Auction House
You may also like