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LOT 173:
AXL LESKOSCHEK* (Graz 1889 - 1976 Vienna) Mediterranean landscape, 1962 watercolor/paper, 29,8 x 39,5 cm ...
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Start price:
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300
Estimated price :
€300 - €600
Buyer's Premium: 24%
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VAT: 20%
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AXL LESKOSCHEK* (Graz 1889 - 1976 Vienna)
Mediterranean landscape, 1962
watercolor/paper, 29,8 x 39,5 cm
inschribed Chi, dated 62, monogrammed AL, verso estate stamp Axl Leskoschek
ESTIMATE °€ 300 - 600
STARTING PRICE °€ 300
Austrian painter of the 20th century, especially of the interwar period. Main representative of the modern and avant-garde in Styria. Studied at the Landeskunstschule in Graz under Alfred Schroetter and from 1921 to 1923 at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna under Alfred Cossmann. Cultural editor at the Social Democratic newspaper Arbeiterwille, from 1920 also book illustrator. 1919 co-founder of the Werkbund Freiland, 1923 Grazer Secession. Fled to Switzerland via Italy in 1938 with the architect and resistance fighter Herbert Eichholzer. 1941 to 1948 exile in Brazil, professor at the Academy in Rio de Janeiro. 1948 return to Austria. active in Vienna as a painter, graphic artist and theater critic. Early influences from Art Nouveau and Expressionism, later interest in medieval woodcuts. Created colorful oil paintings and watercolors, southern landscapes and nudes, also exotic floral still lifes with calla and parrot flower reminiscent of his time in South America.
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