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Herbert Gurschner*
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Herbert Gurschner*
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Estimate €800 - €1,600
Voluntary lot
Description
Herbert Gurschner*
(Innsbruck 1901 – 1975 London)
Going to church
colour woodcut on paper, 8.7 x 8.3 cm
inscribed ‘Holzschnitt Tirol’
ESTIMATE €800 – €1,600
STARTING PRICE €800
Austrian painter, graphic artist and stage designer of the 20th century, particularly the interwar period. A representative of Tyrolean modernism alongside figures such as Artur Nikodem, Ernst Nepo, Wilhelm N. Prachensky, Hans Tyrol-Weber, etc. His style developed between Expressionism and New Objectivity. Nephew of the sculptors Emil and Gustav Gurschner. Attended the School of Arts and Crafts in Innsbruck and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1918 to 1920. In 1920 he lived in Mühlau, Innsbruck, and exhibited with the Mühlau Circle, which included Alfons Schnegg, Rudolf Lehnert and Ernst Nepo. In the early 1920s, he produced landscapes and cityscapes based on his travels through Tyrol, Salzburg and Italy. In 1924, he married the English noblewoman Dolores Cherwadsky-Damarkow and established contacts with London’s artistic and collecting circles. In 1929, he held his first exhibition at the London Fine Art Society. He maintained contacts with aristocratic, diplomatic and business circles, and held exhibitions in London and New York. He married his second wife, Brenda Davidoff. In addition to landscapes and portraits, he also produced nudes. Other artists and styles: Ernst Nepo, Wilhelm Nicolaus Prachensky, Leo Sebastian Huemer, Rudolf Lehnert, Franz Santifaller, Hans Andre, Giorgio de Chirico, Lovis Corinth, Franz Defregger, Janosch, Hans Dressler, Helene Funke, Edgar Jené, Edmund Kalb, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Alfred Kubin, Hans Makart, Franz Marc, Alfons Mucha, Markus Oehlen, Sergius Pauser
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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 statutory sales tax of 13% (20% 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% in the case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
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