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Trude Waehner* (Vienna 1900 – 1979 Vienna) Back nude oil on canvas 127 x 77 cm ESTIMATE €2,000 – €4,000 STARTING PRICE €2,000 Austrian painter of the 20th century. Studied at the Academy of Music for two years, then at the Vienna School of Art under Oskar Strnad and Josef Frank. From 1928, on the recommendation of Walter Gropius and through the mediation of Josef Frank, she attended the Bauhaus in Dessau in Paul Klee’s class. She attended courses taught by Wassily Kandinsky. She moved to Berlin in 1932, where she came into contact with Bruno Cassirer, Bert Brecht, Otto Dix, and Klaus and Erika Mann. In 1933 she returned to Vienna and fled to Switzerland, France and England, before moving to the USA following the Anschluss in 1938. Her studio in Buchfeldgasse, Vienna, was taken over by Heimito von Doderer; Albert Paris Gütersloh lived there as a sub-tenant. Always critical of anti-Semitism and fascism, her second husband was of Jewish origin. In the United States, she taught art at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and at the Moravian Seminary and College for Women in Pennsylvania. After the war, she lived in Vienna, the south of France (Dieulefit) and Venice. In 1937, she worked at the Würthle gallery and was a member of the Austrian Werkbund. She began to produce more woodcuts whilst in Venice, creating many portraits, including those of musicians, cellists, composers and conductors. Other artists and styles: Woodcut, Alban Berg, Otto Klemperer, Gustav Mahler, Bruno Walter, portrait, expressionism, watercolour, realism, New Objectivity, still life, University of Applied Arts, 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, Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Dessau 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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About the sale Modern Art
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Auction time 09/30/2026 at 10:00 AM
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