CARRY HAUSER* (Vienna 1895 - 1985 Rekawinkel) Trude Herzog-Hauser, 1923 charcoal/paper, 39,5 x 28,4 cm ...

CARRY HAUSER* (Vienna 1895 - 1985 Rekawinkel)
Trude Herzog-Hauser, 1923
charcoal/paper, 39,5 x 28,4 cm
monogrammed CH, dated 23
depicted in Carry Hauser 2018, p. 52, N° 153

ESTIMATE °€ 600 - 1200
STARTING PRICE °€ 600

Austrian painter, stage designer, poet, writer of the 20th century. Studied at the School of Applied Arts in Vienna with Alfred Roller, Oskar Strnad, Anton von Kenner and Adolf Michael Boehm. He went to the First World War as a volunteer in 1914 and returned as a pacifist. Friends with Franz Theodor Csokor and supported by Arthur Roessler. Member of the Free Movement artist group and member of the Hagenbund from 1925 to 1938. Lived temporarily in Passau, together with Georg Philipp Wörlen, Reinhard Hilker, Fritz Fuhrken and Franz Bronstert in the artist group Der Fels. From 1922 married to the classical philologist Gertrude Herzog-Hauser. During the Second World War in exile in Switzerland, his wife and son fled to the Netherlands. From 1947 onwards he was involved in cultural reconstruction in Vienna again. Secretary General and Vice President of the P.E.N. Clubs, honorary president of the New Hagenbund. Stylistic development from classical, academic training through early Expressionism to New Objectivity. Topics such as love, death, Eros, narrative representations, religious themes. From the mid-1960s onwards, trips to Africa, increasingly African motifs.

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