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a red vase with a spiral design on ita red vase that is sitting on a white surfacea red vase that is sitting on a white surface
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Estimate €200 - €400
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Alois Heidel* (Vienna 1915 – 1990 Vienna) Figure, 1960 wood, coloured 27 x 10 cm signed Heidel, dated 1960 ESTIMATE °€ 200 – € 400 STARTING PRICE €200 Alois Heidel was an Austrian sculptor of the 20th century. After an apprenticeship as a belt maker and chaser, he began studying at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 1943. From 1946 to 1953, he studied sculpture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna under Fritz Wotruba. Between 1953 and 1969, Heidel created numerous sculptures for the city of Vienna (Viennese municipal buildings). Heidel initially created naturalistic, formally simplified sculptures (primarily animal motifs) and, in the course of his work with a wide variety of materials such as artificial stone, metal and brick, increasingly moved into the realms of abstraction and non-representational sculpture. From 1975, Heidel worked as a restorer at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Heidel was a member of the Secession and was awarded the City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts for sculpture in 1962. Further artists and styles: Vienna School, Hagenbund, Impressionist landscape, portrait painting, Vienna Academy, New Objectivity, Karl Sterrer, Herbert Boeckl, Vienna Secession, Vienna School of Realism, Viennese sacred art, Constructivism 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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