FRANZ SEDLACEK (Wroclaw 1891 - 1945 missing)
Piano player, 1909
pencil/paper, 17,5 x 15,5 cm
monogrammed FS, dated 09
verso further pencil drawing of the pianist

ESTIMATE € 1600 - 3000
STARTING PRICE € 1600

Austrian painter of the 20th century, especially of the interwar period. Main representative of the New Objectivity. Born in Breslau and grew up in Linz in Upper Austria. Studied architecture and chemistry in Vienna from 1910. Together with Anton Lutz, Franz and Klemens Brosch and Heinz Bitzan, he founded in 1913 the Linz artists' association MAERZ. Worked from 1921 at the Technical Museum in Vienna in the Department of Chemical Industry. 1927 Member of the Vienna Secession. From 1928 friendship with Herbert Reyl-Hanisch, also stylistic proximity to his works.. 1939 War deployment in Stalingrad, Norway and Poland, considered missing in action since 1945. Inspired by the art of Romanticism and Flemish-Dutch painting by Joachim Patinier, Joss de Momper, Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Michael Wuttky. Stylistically located between Magic Realism and New Objectivity. Created mainly romantic landscapes, magical worlds, floral still lifes and winter pictures with skiers or snowball fights in old master painting style. In the dream worlds cavort bizarre and grotesque creatures combined with set pieces from technology and everyday life. Fantastic, partly gloomy mood reminds one of Alfred Kubin or the texts of Gustav Meyrink and Edgar Allen Poe.

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 photographs 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.