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855 - Franz von Zülow*
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Estimate €500 - €1,000
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Franz von Zülow* (Vienna 1883 – 1963 Vienna) Chamois oil on wood 51 x 41 cm ESTIMATE € 500 – € 1,000 STARTING PRICE € 500 Austrian painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. A leading figure of Classical Modernism. Studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts from 1903 to 1906 under Felician Myrbach and Carl Otto Czeschka. Explored graphic techniques, developing his own paper-cutting stencil technique in 1907. Participated in the 1908 art exhibition organised by Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann. Commissioned by Josef Hoffmann to design wallpaper for a children’s room in the Palais Stoclet. From 1909, he lived in Haugsdorf, where his mother and sister resided. From 1915, he served in the Austro-Hungarian army; he returned from Italy in 1919, having been a prisoner of war there. From 1920 to 1922, he taught at the Schleiß ceramic workshops in Gmunden. From 1922, he commuted between Vienna and Upper Austria. He produced arts and crafts works and illustrations for the Wiener Werkstätte, amongst others. From the 1920s onwards, he also produced oil paintings, particularly landscapes. He was a member of the Zinkenbach artists’ colony during the interwar period, alongside Ferdinand Kitt, Josef Dobrowsky, Ernst Huber, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Oskar Laske, Georg Merkel, Louise Merkel-Romee and Georg Ehrlich. In 1942, he was banned from painting. In 1945, he became a member of the Vienna Secession and the Linz Artists’ Association MAERZ. From 1949, he taught at the School of Arts and Crafts in Linz and, from 1955, served as president of the Mühlviertler Künstlergilde. Influenced by the decorative and flat ornamental art of Art Nouveau and folk art. He produced mainly children’s books, posters, calendar illustrations, murals, wallpaper, carpets and fabrics. But also prints, watercolours, drawings and oil paintings featuring landscapes, rural and religious motifs, as well as fairy-tale and fantastical scenes. Other artists and styles: Art Nouveau, New Objectivity, Expressionism, Realism, Landscape, Still Life, Symbolism, Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, Josef Hoffmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Albin Egger-Lienz, Koloman Moser, Richard Gerstl, Broncia Koller-Pinell, Anton Mahringer, Josef Dobrowsky, University of Applied Arts, Franz Barwig the Elder, Anton Hanak, Bertold Löffler, Dorit Margreiter, Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill, Mela Köhler, Carl Otto Czeschka, Dagobert Peche, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Anton Faistauer, Max Kurzweil, Rudolf Bacher, Christian Griepenkerl, Vienna Secession, Vienna Künstlerhaus, Wiener Werkstätte, Society Portrait, Zinkenbach Artists’ Colony, Mühlviertel Artists’ Guild 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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