ALBERT PARIS GUETERSLOH* (Vienna 1887 - 1973 Baden) Female nudes, 1912 pencil/paper, 28 x 40 cm monogrammed PG ...

ALBERT PARIS GUETERSLOH* (Vienna 1887 - 1973 Baden)
Female nudes, 1912
pencil/paper, 28 x 40 cm
monogrammed PG, dated 12

ESTIMATE € 1000 - 2000
STARTING PRICE € 1000

The Austrian painter and writer Albert Paris von Gütersloh (Albert Conrad Kiehfahrer) is considered the spiritual father of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. Watercolors, drawings, oil paintings, but also tapestry designs, mosaics and stained glass windows. The themes of his pictures are primarily still lifes, portraits and landscapes. As a teacher of Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs, Wolfgang Hutter, Helmut Leherbauer, Arminio Rothstein, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Anton Lehmden and Alois Kowald, he is considered one of the most important pioneers of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. After his first attempts as an actor, Kiehfahrer first appeared in 1909 with an exhibition of drawings at the International Art Show in Vienna. Further exhibitions followed, including at the Hagenbund, in the Vienna Secession, in France, Germany and Italy. After his expressionist novel “The Dancing Fool” was published, he went to Paris as an art reporter, where he studied painting with Maurice Denis. In Vienna he became a student of Gustav Klimt and belonged to his circle with Egon Schiele and Josef Hoffmann. He published articles in the magazines “Der Ruf” and “Die Aktion”. In 1914 he published the magazine “Der Knockabout” with Karl Adler. During the First World War he met Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Hermann Bahr, Robert Musil, and Franz Blei met at the k.u.k. Kriegspressequartier (Imperial and Royal War Press Office). With Blei he published the magazine Die Rescue in 1918/19. In 1919, Gütersloh was portrayed by Bohuslav Kokoschka, Oskar Kokoschka's younger brother. In 1922 Kiehfahrer officially changed his name to Albert Paris von Gütersloh. 1919 – 1921 he was senior director at the Munich Schauspielhaus. He also wrote and was a set designer at the Vienna Burgtheater and a church restorer. In 1922 he received the Theodor Fontane Prize for art and literature for his books. From 1930 to 1938, Gütersloh was a professor at the Vienna School of Applied Arts and from 1933 to 1939 a member of the Vienna Secession. During this time, mosaics and stained glass windows were created for some Viennese churches. His early expressive works were considered "degenerate" by the Nazis; in 1937, two of his works were confiscated and destroyed in the Folkwang Museum during the "Degenerate Art" campaign. He lost his professorship and was banned from working. Gütersloh was a freelancer for the Wiener Zeitung and a friend and roommate of Heimito von Doderer. After the Second World War, Gütersloh ran a master school for painting and a fresco course at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. His students included, among others: Ernst Fuchs and Eva Nagy. Since 1945, Gütersloh was again a member of the Art Club and the Secession and was their president from 1950 to 1954. In 1950 he founded the Federation of Modern Visual Artists in Austria with Josef Hoffmann.

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