OTTO RUDOLF SCHATZ* ( Vienna 1900 - 1961 Vienna )

OTTO RUDOLF SCHATZ* ( Vienna 1900 - 1961 Vienna )
Industrialisation
woodcut/paper 32,4 x 23,7 cm

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 60 - 100
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 60

Austrian painter and graphic artist of the 20th century, especially between the wars. Studied at the School of Applied Arts with Anton von Kenner, Franz Cizek and Oskar Strnad. Initially worked primarily as a graphic designer and illustrator for Arthur Roessler and Josef Luitpold Stern. 1928 to 1938, member of the Hagenbund, from 1946 member of the Vienna Secession. Lived in Prague and Brno with his Jewish wife during World War II. In 1944, he was incarcerated at theGräditz concentration camp; 1945 liberation by Soviet troops. Created primarily woodcuts, watercolours, cityscapes, socially critical works and murals, but also mosaics and graffiti for residential buildings. Early interest in works by Egon Schiele, development between Expressionism and New Objectivity. In the 1920s and 1930s, woodcuts in the New Objectivity style, including erotic motifs. Further artists and styles: Watercolour, Expressionism, Oil painting, Still life, Veduta, Portrait, Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, Josef Hoffmann, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Matthias Herrmann, Lois Pregartbauer, Rudolf von Alt, Oskar Kokoschka, Albin Egger-Lienz, Koloman Moser, Richard Gerstl, Broncia Koller-Pinell, Anton Mahringer, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Karl Revy, Egon Schiele. Friedrich Aduatz, Eduard Ameseder, Robin Christian Andersen, Franz Barwig der Ältere, Leopold Blauensteiner, Hans Bren, Georg Ehrlich, Carl Fahringer, Josef Floch, Beni Ferenczy, Tibor Gergely, Gustav Gurschner, Felix Albrecht Harta, Karl Hauk, Carry Hauser, Wilhelm Hejda, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Rudolf Junk, Maximilian Kahrer, Eduard Kasparides, Wilhelm Kaufmann, Oskar Laske, Heinrich Lefler, Georg Mayer-Marton, Karl Mediz, Georg Merkel, Carl O’Lynch of Town, Ernst Paar, Anton Peschkam Robert Philippi, Michael Powolny, Heribert Potuznik, Lois Pregartbauer, Maximilian reinitz, Heinrich Revy, Albert Reuss, Otto Rudolf Schatz, Fritz Schwarz-Waldegg, Maximilian Suppantschitsch, Eduard Thöny, Viktor Tischler, Georg Philipp Wörlen, Bettina Ehrlich, Anna Lesznai, Louise Merkel-Romée, Frieda Salvendy, Lilly Steiner

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