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692 - Rudolf Karasek*
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Estimate €1,400 - €2,400
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Rudolf Karasek* (Jablonecké Paseky 1895 – 1986 Lauterbach) Village in the Jizera Mountains oil on canvas, 80 x 120 cm signed R. Karasek inscribed on the reverse: ‘Am Berghang’ (Iser Mountains) ESTIMATE €1,400 – €2,400 STARTING PRICE €1,400 Rudolf Karasek was born in 1895 in Bad Schlag, a suburb of Gablonz on the River Neisse in Bohemia. Initially, he followed his family’s wishes and learnt the printing trade at his uncle’s graphic arts studio. However, Karasek soon decided to become a painter and began his studies at the School of Applied Arts in Gablonz. From there, he transferred to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Karasek soon discovered landscape painting and the depiction of medieval towns and their architecture; in addition, he was also involved in the graphic arts, etching and woodcut. From the 1920s onwards, he exhibited regularly. In the 1930s, Karasek also worked as a stage designer, first at the ‘Sudetenbühne’, then at the ‘Landesbühne Sachsen’ in Dresden. His works were particularly well received in museums and public buildings in the ‘Sudetenland’. In 1943, Karasek was awarded the Fritz Metzner Prize, after which he moved to Upper Hesse. There, the Rhön became his source of inspiration, and he focused particularly on still life, landscape and portrait painting. In later years, he increasingly moved away from the classical genre and began to devote himself to abstract painting. Other artists and styles: Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Antonín Slavíček, Oskar Kokoschka, Emil Orlik, Josef Jütte, Rudolf Wacker, Expressionism, Fauvism, landscape painting 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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