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Description
Hans Pilhs*
(Tullnerbach 1903 – 1986 Vienna)
Mandolin Player
oil on cardboard, 72.5 x 52 cm
signed H. Pilhs
ESTIMATE €250 – €400
STARTING PRICE €250
Hans Pilhs was an Austrian Expressionist painter who is regarded as part of the ‘lost generation’ of interwar Expressionism. From 1919, Pilhs attended the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) in Vienna, studying under Erich Mallina and Anton von Kenner. He was discovered by the art dealer Otto Kalir-Nirenstein, who dedicated his 100th-anniversary exhibition to him in 1934 at his ‘Neue Galerie’ in Vienna. In 1938, Pilhs went on a study trip to Italy. In 1941, he was conscripted into the army; in 1945, he was taken prisoner by the British. In 1954 and 1958, he travelled to Greece and Egypt. He produced series of paintings in Tunisia in 1962, in Morocco and Spain in 1964, and in Turkey in 1966. Exhibitions: 1924, Theseus Temple, Vienna; 1933, Glaspalast/Burggarten, Vienna; 1934, Welz Gallery, Salzburg; 1934, Neue Galerie, Vienna; Welz Gallery, Salzburg (with Oskar Kokoschka); 1935, Vienna Secession; 1938, Vienna Kunstschau; 1950–1974, Künstlerhaus Vienna; 1974/5, Herzog Gallery, Vienna; 1975, Baden Gallery; 1979, Ethnographic Museum Vienna; 1980, Scharnstein Castle Gallery; 1983, Lower Austrian State Museum; 1986, Weihergut Gallery, Salzburg. Works by Hans Pilhs are held in the following collections: Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Vienna; Albertina, Vienna; Cultural Office of the City of Vienna, Museum of Lower Austria (formerly the Lower Austrian State Museum). Other artists and styles: University of Applied Arts, Franz Barwig the Elder, Wander Bertoni, Max Domenig, Adolf Frohner, Anton Hanak, Matthias Herrmann, Wolfgang Hutter, Erika Giovanna Klien, Gustav Klimt, Hans Knesl, Oskar Kokoschka, Bertold Löffler, Dorit Margreiter, Koloman Moser, Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill
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