GEORG MERKEL* ( Lemberg 1881 - 1976 Vienna )

GEORG MERKEL* ( Lemberg 1881 - 1976 Vienna )
Olympia and her servant
oil/fiberboard 21 x 25,5 cm
signed Merkel

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 4000 - 6000
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 4000

Georg Merkel was an Austrian artist who was born in 1881 in Lemberg, Galicia (now Lvov, Ukraine), in poor conditions. Initially, he worked as a painter of decorations; 1903 to 1905, supprted by a friend, he studied at the Academy in Krakow. From 1905 until 1908 and from 1909 until 1914, he lived in Paris, devoting himself to French Classicism and to Paul Cézanne. As a volunteer in the Austrio-Hungarian army during the Great War, Merkel was injured on the head and went blind. The recovery of his eyesight left a deep impact on him and became defining for his art. Between World Wars I and II, Merkel lived in Vienna and was a member of the Viennese artists" association "Hagenbund". He had also contact to the painters" colony in Zinkenbach in Salzburg. In 1938, his art was defamed as “degenerate” by the Nazi regime, and so he emigrated to France, via Czechoslovakia. Merkel was interned in Southern France, then he lived in Montauban. Since 1945, Merkel was a member of the Viennese Secession, and in 1961 the received the Preis der Stadt Wien. In 1972, he finally returned to Vienna. Georg Merkel was married with the painter Louise Merkel-Romeé (1888–1977). We know about his acquaintance with Elias Canetti, who mentioned Merkel in the 3rd part of his diaries titled “Das Augenspiel” in 1985. Further artists and styles: 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, 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, expressionism, realism, oil painting

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