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Estimate €400 - €800
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Anton Hanak (Brno 1875 – 1934 Vienna) Study of three figures watercolour and pencil on paper, 36.5 x 30.2 cm signed A. Hanak ESTIMATE °€ 400 – € 800 STARTING PRICE €400 Anton Hanak studied under Edmund Hellmer at the Vienna Academy and was a member of the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte, as well as a founding member of the Österreichischer Werkbund. Hanak taught at the Vienna School of Applied Arts and, from 1932, was a professor at the Vienna Academy. Among others, Fritz Wotruba, Oskar Icha and Rudolf Reinhart studied under him. He corresponded with the Graz-based artist Rita Passini between 1913 and 1916. He created the sculptural decoration for several of Josef Hoffmann’s buildings (including Villa Skywa-Primavesi, Landhaus Primavesi and Landhaus Ast) and, in the 1920s, for residential buildings owned by the City of Vienna. He created numerous portrait busts and monuments, including the Schmerzensmutter war memorial at Vienna’s Central Cemetery, erected in 1925, and the bust of Victor Adler for the Republic Monument. His works have a visionary and symbolic character, with certain affinities to Expressionism, for example ‘The Last Man’ from 1917 or ‘The Burning Man’ from 1922. ‘The Burning Man’ is regarded as an icon of modern sculpture in Austria. Other artists and styles: Edmund Hellmer, Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann, Auguste Rodin, Aristide Maillol, Fritz Wotruba, Franz Hagenauer, Vienna Secession, Vienna School of Applied Arts, Expressionist sculpture, monumental sculpture, Primavesi Villas, Mariahilfer Zentralpalast, Great Art Exhibition Dresden, Viennese Modernism, Art Nouveau, Rudolf Weyr 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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