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drawing of a large crowd of people walking around a town squarepainting of a crowd of people in front of a building with a clock tower in the backgrounda picture of a picture hanging on a bulletin board
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Estimate €150 - €250
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Oskar Laske (Chernivtsi 1874 – 1951 Vienna) Central Market, Chernivtsi lithograph, coloured on paper, 33.5 x 38.6 cm monogrammed O. L., inscribed ‘Cernauti Prata Unirucuprimaria’ ESTIMATE €150 – €250 STARTING PRICE €150 Oskar Laske was an Austrian painter, graphic artist, book illustrator and architect of the 20th century, particularly active during the interwar period, who hailed from Bukovina. He studied architecture at the Academy under Otto Wagner. Apart from a course in landscape painting with Anton Hlavacek, he was a self-taught painter. From 1905, he was a member of the Jungbund; from 1907, a member of the Hagenbund; from 1924, a member of the Vienna Secession; and from 1928, a member of the Künstlerhaus. Study trips took him throughout Europe and to North America. His early landscapes and cityscapes showed the influence of mood impressionism. Laske created biblical, historical and genre scenes, with a preference for narrative and multi-figure depictions. His works are imaginative, detailed and humorous, characterised by an expressive yet sensitive use of colour. Osar Laske was the brother of the painter Elizabeth Kesselbauer-Laske. Further artists and styles: gouache, watercolour, lithography, architecture, design, landscape painting, vedute, etching, genre scenes, Hagenbund, Otto Wagner, Anton Hlavacek, Secession, Künstlerhaus, Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann, Rudolf Bacher, Wiener Werkstätte, Wiener Werkbund, Cubism, architectural painting, Ver Sacrum, Bukovina, Koloman Moser 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% (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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Auction time 09/30/2026 at 10:00 AM
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