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painting of a view of a village with a church in the distancea painting of a view of a town with a clock tower in the distancea close up of a picture frame with a cork board in it
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Estimate €800 - €1,600
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Emanuel Fohn* (Klagenfurt 1881 – 1966 Bolzano) City view oil on canvas, 37 x 51 cm signed Em. Fohn ESTIMATE € 800 – € 1,600 STARTING PRICE € 800 Austrian painter, draughtsman and art collector of the 20th century. A representative of a realistic style of landscape and figure painting influenced by Impressionism. Born in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, he worked as a painter, restorer and later as an art collector. After spending many years in Munich, he eventually settled in South Tyrol, where he died in Bolzano in 1966. Together with his wife, the painter Sofie Fohn, he built up an extensive collection of 18th- and 19th-century works, as well as modern art by artists such as Oskar Kokoschka, Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann, Emil Nolde, Hermann Max Pechstein, Christian Rohlfs and Egon Schiele from the 1930s onwards. In 1964, Sofie and Emanuel Fohn donated a significant part of their collection of around 700 works – paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints and textile works – to the Bavarian State Painting Collections. Related artists and terms: Oskar Kokoschka, Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann, Emil Nolde, Hermann Max Pechstein, Christian Rohlfs, Egon Schiele, ‘Degenerate Art’, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Pinakothek der Moderne 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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About the sale Modern Art
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Auction time 09/30/2026 at 10:00 AM
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