LERCH*, EHRLICH*, PHILIPPI*, LASKE, LUX, GUNSAM*, POTUZNIK*

LERCH*, EHRLICH*, PHILIPPI*, LASKE, LUX, GUNSAM*, POTUZNIK*
FRANZ LERCH*, GEORG EHRLICH*, ROBERT PHILIPPI*, OSKAR LASKE, RICHARD LUX, KARL JOSEF GUNSAM*, HERIBERT POTUZNIK*
Bundle of 10 works, Hagenbund 1

201-1 | Franz Lerch* (Vienna 1895 - 1977 New York)
Scene at the beach
pencil/paper, 35,5 x 42,6 cm
signed F. Lerch, handwritten notes of the artist, verso sketch with two figures

201-2 | Georg Ehrlich* (Vienna 1897 - 1966 Lucerne)
Portrait
etching/paper, 37,1 x 34,4 cm
signed Ehrlich, dated 22

201-3 | Robert Philippi* (Graz 1877 - 1959 Vienna)
St. Sebastian
woodcut/paper, 46 x 33 cm
monogrammed in print RPH

201-4 | Oskar Laske (Czernowitz 1874 - 1951 Vienna)
Through storm and danger
etching/paper, 35 x 44,9 cm
signed O.Laske (in the print), inscribed in the plate Durch Gewitter und Gefahren
drawing N° 4 of the map Auf der Flucht nach aegypten

201-5 | Oskar Laske (Czernowitz 1874 - 1951 Vienna)
Napoli, Porta Capuana
lithography/paper, 40 x 32,5 cm
signed O. Laske, titled in print Napoli, Porta Capuana

201-6 | Oskar Laske (Czernowitz 1874 - 1951 Vienna)
In front of the city gates
etching/paper, 35 x 44,9 cm
signed O.Laske (in the print), inscribed in the plate Vor dem Stadttor, drawing N° 7 of the map Auf der Flucht nach aegypten

201-7 | Richard Lux (Vienna 1877 - 1939 Vienna)
Mountain church
etching/paper, 14,3 x 9,5 cm
verso signature stamp Lux Richard and numbered 26

201-8 | Richard Lux (Vienna 1877 - 1939 Vienna)
Statehouse court Klagenfurt
etching/paper, 32,5 x 24,5 cm
verso signature stamp Lux Richard and numbered and labelled 1 Klagenfurt Landhaushof

201-9 | Karl Josef Gunsam* (Vienna 1900 - 1972 Vienna)
Mountains
pencil/paper, 29,9 x 39,6 cm
verso estate stamp K. Gunsam

201-10 | Heribert Potuznik* (Vienna 1910 - 1984 Mistelbach)
Valentina
etching/paper, 12,5 x 8,7 cm
signed H. Potuznik, dated 69, labelled in print "Valentina Elsin aus Monaseino"

ESTIMATE °€ 800 - 1600
STARTING PRICE °€ 800

Austrian painter, stage designer, poet, writer of the 20th century. Studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna with Alfred Roller, Oskar Strnad, Anton von Kenner and Adolf Michael Boehm. Went to World War I as a volunteer in 1914, returned as a pacifist. Friends with Franz Theodor Csokor and promoted by Arthur Roessler. Member of the Free Movement artists' group and from 1925 to 1938 a member of the Hagenbund. Lived in Passau for a while, together with Georg Philipp Woerlen, Reinhard Hilker, Fritz Fuhrken and Franz Bronstert in the artist group Der Fels. From 1922 married to the classical philologist Gertrude Herzog-Hauser. During World War II in exile in Switzerland, wife and son fled to the Netherlands. From 1947 again involved in cultural reconstruction in Vienna. Secretary General and Vice President of the P.E.N. Clubs, Honorary President of the New Hagenbund. Stylistic development from classical, academic training through early Expressionism to New Objectivity. Themes like love, death, eros, narrative representations, religious themes. From the mid-1960s, travels to Africa, increasingly African motifs. Portrait of the artist's mother: Maria Hauser, nee Linke.

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