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Estimate €100 - €200
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Carry Hauser* (Vienna 1895 – 1985 Rekawinkel) Saint Henry pencil on paper, 22.8 x 16.9 cm inscribed ‘Heiliger Heinrich bitt für mich’ (Saint Henry, pray for me) ESTIMATE °€ 100 – € 200 STARTING PRICE €100 Austrian painter, stage designer, poet and writer of the 20th century. Studied at the School of Applied Arts in Vienna under Alfred Roller, Oskar Strnad, Anton von Kenner and Adolf Michael Boehm. In 1914 he volunteered for the First World War and returned as a pacifist. He became friends with Franz Theodor Csokor and was championed by Arthur Roessler. He was a member of the artists’ group Freie Bewegung and, from 1925 to 1938, a member of the Hagenbund. He lived for a time in Passau, alongside Georg Philipp Wörlen, Reinhard Hilker, Fritz Fuhrken and Franz Bronstert, as part of the artists’ group Der Fels. From 1922, he was married to the classical philologist Gertrude Herzog-Hauser. During the Second World War, he was in exile in Switzerland; his wife and son fled to the Netherlands. From 1947, he was once again involved in cultural reconstruction in Vienna. He served as Secretary-General and Vice-President of the P.E.N. Club, and as Honorary President of the New Hagenbund. His stylistic development ranged from classical, academic training through early Expressionism to New Objectivity. Themes included love, death, Eros, narrative representations and religious themes. From the mid-1960s, he undertook trips to Africa, increasingly incorporating African motifs. Other artists and styles: George Grosz, Otto Dix, Ludwig Meidner, Arthur Roessler, Franz Theodor Csokor, Otto Rudolf Schatz, Hagenbund, Free Movement, New Objectivity, Expressionism, Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, Austrian PEN Club, Professional Association of Visual Artists, Albertina, Belvedere, Austrian artists in exile, graphic art of the interwar period, art in exile, The Rock, portraiture of the 1920s 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 statutory 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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