ANTON HANAK (Brünn 1875 - 1934 Wien) Lot n° 48

ANTON HANAK (Bruenn 1875 - 1934 Vienna) Male nude, 1921 ink/paper, 23,5 x 19,3 cm signed Anton Hanak, dated 1921 ESTIMATE °€ 1600 - 3000 STARTING PRICE °€ 1600 Anton Hanak studied with Edmund Hellmer at the Vienna Academy and was a member of the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte as well as a founding member of the Austrian Werkbund. Hanak was a teacher at the Vienna School of Applied Arts and from 1932 a professor at the Vienna Academy. Fritz Wotruba, Oskar Icha and Rudolf Reinhart, among others, learned from him. Between 1913 and 1916 he was in correspondence with the Graz artist Rita Passini. He created the sculptural decoration for several of Josef Hoffmann's buildings (including Villa Skywa-Primavesi, Landhaus Primavesi, Landhaus Ast) and in the 1920s for residential buildings in the municipality of Vienna. He is the author of numerous portrait busts and memorials, including the Sorrows Mother war memorial erected in 1925 in the Vienna Central Cemetery and the bust of Victor Adler for the Republic Monument. His works have a visionary and symbolic character with a certain proximity to Expressionism, for example "The Last Man" from 1917 or "The Burning Man" from 1922. "The Burning Man" is considered an icon of modern sculpture in Austria. Anton Hanak also created a design for a monument to Gustav Mahler in Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna. 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.