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a black and white drawing of a man sitting at a table in front of a buildingan old photo of a cat laying on a bed with a pillow
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Estimate €100 - €200
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Herwig Zens* (Himberg 1943 – 2019 Vienna) Belvedere, 1972 etching on paper, 29.6 x 39.7 cm signed and dated on the plate: Zens 72 listed in the catalogue raisonné Herwig Zens, 2007, no. 137 ESTIMATE €100 – €200 STARTING PRICE €100 Herwig Zens was an Austrian painter, graphic artist and art educator associated with the Viennese post-war modernist movement, specialising in abstract painting, collage and experimental techniques. Born in 1943 in Himberg near Vienna, the son of a farmer, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1963 to 1969 under Wolfgang Hutter and Oswald Oberhuber. From 1975 onwards, he took part in exhibitions organised by the Vienna Secession, and from 1980 he worked as a freelance artist in Vienna. From 1990, he taught as a professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and continued to create large-scale installations and mixed-media works until his death. Zens painted dynamic colour fields, gestural abstractions and material assemblages featuring spontaneous brushstrokes, textured surfaces and intense colours, influenced by the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, Viennese Actionism and the international Informel movement. His acrylic and oil paintings, collages and objects were characterised by process-oriented freedom and spatial tension. Further artists and styles: Wolfgang Hutter, Oswald Oberhuber, Vienna Secession, Fantastic Realism, Viennese Actionism, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Abstract Painting, watercolour 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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