Pre-Valentine Wonderful Sale
Lot 458:
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Keywords: Viennese Secession Movement, Expressionism, Modern Art, Abstract Symbolism, Surrealist Influence, Post-War European Art, Gustav Klimt style, Paul Klee style, Egon Schiele style, oil on canvas, mid 20th century, layered pigment technique, geometric abstraction, picture
NO RESERVE Friedensreich HUNDERTWASSER (1928-2000) aka Friedrich Stowasser, Composition with Faces, Screenprinting on fabric mounted on Canvas, signed
Friedrich Stowasser, the son of a Jewish mother and a Christian father. His father died when he was one year old, and he was raised by his mother. He entered the Vienna Academy of Art but left after only three months. At twenty-one he changed his name to Hundertwasser. Hundertwasser was one of the best-known painters on the European continent, although he had gained more recognition for his architecture. He personified the modern artist: free from convention, free from a fixed frame of reference, unattached to any particular geographic location or country, wandering among the different peoples of this earth.
Not content to merely paint and make prints, Hundertwasser was also an architect (un-credentialed) who wrote manifestos, designed posters and stamps, and traveled the globe bringing construction projects to realization and collecting awards. He was also an outspoken proponent of many environmental and anti-nuclear causes.
Measurement: Art: 29 3/4 x 25 1/2 in. (75.6 x 64.8 cm.), Frame: 32 1/4 x 28 in. (81.9 x 71.1 cm.) approx
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