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Signed Sergius Hruby, ‘Two Female Figures in a Garden’. Period Vienna Secessionist Art Nouveau Oil Painting on Panel
Signed Sergius Hruby (Austrian, 1869 -1943) ‘Two Female Figures in a Garden’. Vienna Secessionist period oil painting on panel. Signed lower right.
Sergius Hruby was a respected painter, graphic artist and illustrator, as well as a designer of ceramics and jewelry. As a student at the kunstgewerbeschule, first founded in 1867 by the austrian museum for art & industry, he received grants from various foundations, and in 1899 was appointed a teaching position at the teplitzer k.k. fachschule für thonwaren-industrie und andere kunst-gewerbe, the local technical school for the pottery-industry as well as other forms of the decorative arts. In 1920 he began teaching at the Wiener Lehr und Versuchsanstalt, among many well-known secessionist artists such as koloman moser and Josef Engelhart. Between 1925 and 1933, Hruby’s illustrations were printed on a regular basis in the satirical magazine die muskete.
In 1941 he was removed from the membership of the RRK, Reichskultturkammer, the german reichs’ chamber of culture, founded by Joseph Goebbels, due to the fact that his wife was not of aryan descent. Thus, also losing his artists union affiliation with the Vienna Kunstlerhaus, he effectively lost his ability to produce work. He died two years later at the age of 74.
23 7/8" high x 20 5/8" wide.
Condition: Good with some restoration. Please refer to photos.
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