EDUARD THÖNY (Brixen 1866 - 1950 Holzhausen am... Lot n° 29

EDUARD THÖNY (Bressanone 1866 - 1950 Holzhausen/Ammersee) Men on galloping horses indian ink and watercolor/paper, 17,1 x 13,5 cm monogrammed E.Th. ESTIMATE °€ 500 - 1000 STARTING PRICE °€ 500 Eduard Thöny, son of a Tyrolean woodcarver and sculptor, studied from 1883 to 1892 at the Munich Art Academy under Gabriel von Hackl, Ludwig von Löfftz and Defregger, interrupted by study visits and travel. He spent the summer semester of 1890 in Paris. There he studied the art of Edouard Detailles and kept in touch with the circle of the Académie Julien through his compatriot and fellow student Leo Putz. Thöny worked in Munich on Louis Braun's battle paintings and provided humorous and photojournalistic contributions for the "Münchner Humoristische Blatter", a weekly supplement of the "Neues Münchner Tagblatt". In 1891/92 he accompanied Buffalo Bill on a European tour. In 1896, Thöny began to draw for the "Simplicissimus" founded by Albert Langen. His speciality became social and military caricature. In painting, the preferred depiction of hunting and equestrian sports shows an aesthetic late impressionism Thöny illustrated books and designed book covers, especially for the Albert Langen Verlag, e.g. for Frank Wedekind, Guy de Maupassant, Marcel Prévost, Karl Bleibtreu, Theodore Roosevelt. His most popular series of images were the illustrations for Ludwig Thomas Filser letters "Correspondence of a Bavarian Member of the State Parliament" (published in Simplicissimus since 1907). In 1904, he rode his bicycle through southern France, accompanied by Ludwig Thoma and Rudolf Wilke. In 1906, Thöny became a partner in Simplicissimus with the draftsmen Thomas Theodor Heine, Olaf Gulbransson, Bruno Paul, Ferdinand von Rezniček, Wilhelm Schulz and Wilke. Caricatures and paintings by Thöny were shown at Bruno and Paul Cassirer in Berlin from 1899 and at the Brakl and Heinemann galleries in Munich from 1906. Copley Hall in Boston/Mass. showed his work in 1909 in their "Exhibition of Contemporary German Art". In 1908, Thöny acquired a lakeside property in Holzhausen am Ammersee. He had the gardener's house rebuilt according to plans by Bruno Paul. In Holzhausen he associated with the artists of the Scholle circle, the Munich avant-garde of Art Nouveau: Adolf Eröer, Walter Georgi, Mathias Gasteiger, Anna Sophie Gasteiger and Olaf Gulbransson. In 1914, Thöny became a member of the k.u.k. War Press Quarters; for the duration of the war he acted as a war painter. His realistic front images shaped the appearance of the Simplicissimus during the war years. In 1915, Thöny Ehe married Rosa Vierthaler, a niece of the Munich sculptors Johann and Ludwig Vierthaler, who was 25 years his junior. The experiences of the First World War and the fall of the monarchy in Germany meant that Thöny lost his caricature world of images. He was now increasingly responsible for Bavarian issues. In addition to the weekly contribution to Simplicissimus, which had become routine, he increasingly occupied himself with painting again. His preferred subjects were hunting and equestrian sport pictures in the late impressionist style. Mediated by the architect Paul Ludwig Troost, paintings in this style were created from 1922 for the lounges of North German Lloyd passenger ships. In 1928, his graphic work was honoured in a first solo exhibition in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich. He was a member of the Munich Sezession. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.