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341 - Erich Postenrieder*
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Estimate €100 - €200
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Erich Postenrieder* (1940 – 1974) Discussion, 1972 watercolour and pencil on paper, 50 x 36.5 cm signed E. Postenrieder, dated 1972 ESTIMATE °€ 100 – € 200 STARTING PRICE °€ 100 Erich Postenrieder was an Austrian painter and graphic artist of the post-war Viennese avant-garde, specialising in abstract and gestural painting. Born in Austria in 1940, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Rudolf Hoflehner in the 1960s, took part in exhibitions organised by the Vienna Secession from 1965 onwards, was a co-founder of the artists’ group ‘Generation 40’, and received the City of Vienna’s Advancement Award for Fine Arts in 1970. Postenrieder created informal oil paintings, acrylic works and mixed-media pieces featuring dynamic fields of colour, spontaneous gestures and material texture, influenced by Viennese Actionism, Tachisme and international Abstract Expressionism; large-format compositions characterised by raw energy and a process-oriented painting style. Further artists and terms: Rudolf Hoflehner, Hermann Nitsch, Informel Vienna, Vienna Secession, Gestural Abstraction, Post-War Modernism in Austria, Generation 40, Art Club Vienna 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 per cent 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, Lots 1–508: Starts at 10.00 am CET; Lots 509–981: Starts at 4.00 pm CET
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Auction time 09/30/2026 at 10:00 AM
Lot description modified on 09/26/2026 at 12:58 PM
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