ERWIN STOLZ* (Kyselka 1896 - 1987 Wien) Lot n° 46

ERWIN STOLZ* (Kyselka 1896 - 1987 Vienna) Farewell indian ink/paper, 21,5 x 17 cm ESTIMATE °€ 800 - 1500 STARTING PRICE °€ 800 Erwin Stolz was trained as an agricultural engineer, but in his spare time he was intensively engaged in painting. During the First World War he served as an officer and came to Italy as a prisoner of war. After the end of the war he devoted himself entirely to painting. Initially working as a sign painter, industrial graphic artist and newspaper delivery man, he attended numerous courses to further his artistic education. He had contacts with Gustav Karl Beck, Erich Mallina, George Kenner, Alexander Rothaug and the artists of the Hagenbund. Stolz was also friends with the composer Josef Matthias Hauer, a musician and music theorist from the circle of Arnold Schönberg, who was considered degenerate under the Nazis. Stolz's oeuvre is influenced by Jugendstil (Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, Koloman Moser, Otto Wagner, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Josef Hoffmann, Art Deco (Wiener Werkstätte), New Objectivity (Carry Hauser, Franz Lerch, Sergius Pauser, Franz August Sedlacek, Ferdinand Bruckner, Robert Musil, Franz Nabl, Robert Michel, Robert Neumann, Joseph Roth), Symbolism (Léon-François Comerre, Eugen Bracht, Arnold Böcklin, Edward Burne-Jones, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Lovis Corinth, Henry Cros, Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry, Jean Dampt, Jean Delville, Maurice Denis, Francisco Durrio de Madrón, James Ensor, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Paul Gauguin, Isobel Lilian Gloag, Henry de Groux, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Per Hasselberg, Dora Hitz, Ferdinand Hodler, Ludwig von Hofmann, Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov, Rudolf Jettmar, Fernand Khnopff, Max Klinger, Georges Lacombe, Franz von Lenbach, Sigmund Lipinsky, Frances MacDonald McNair, Josef Madlener, Jacek Malczewski, George Minne, Gustave Moreau, Edvard Munch, Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov, Max Nonnenbruch, Odilon Redon, Auguste Rodin, Félicien Rops, Sascha Schneider, Giovanni Segantini, Leon Spilliaert, Franz von Stuck, Per Adolf Svedlund, Jan Toorop, Adolfo Wildt, Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, Mikhail Alexandrovich Wrubel) and Surrealism (André Breton, Louis Aragon, Philippe Soupault, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Frida Kahlo). Stolz was just as inclined towards anthroposophy as his contemporary and fellow artist Gertraud Reinberger-Brausewetter. 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.