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Thomas Stimm*
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422
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Thomas Stimm*
See original version (German)
Estimate €100 - €400
Voluntary lot
Description
Thomas Stimm*
(born 1948 in Vienna)
Reverie, 1984
gouache on paper, 62 x 91 cm
signed Th. Stimm, dated 1984
ESTIMATE €100 – €400
STARTING PRICE €100
Thomas Stimm is an Austrian painter, sculptor, graphic artist and object artist who has gained prominence since the 1980s primarily through sculptural nature pieces and larger-than-life floral motifs. After studying painting under Max Weiler at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and continuing his studies in Hamburg, he worked for a time as Weiler’s assistant; he developed a visual language that—ranging from miniatures to monumental ceramic and metal sculptures—is characterised by formal simplicity combined with intense colour. His work is distinguished by blossoms and leaves cast in bronze or lacquered aluminium and coloured in vivid, bright hues; appearing as oversized natural forms in both indoor and outdoor settings, they create a striking counterpoint to the urban environment—though Stimm expressly rejects any metaphorical interpretation of his ‘flowers’, viewing them instead as autonomous natural signs that possess an inherent sense of repose.
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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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