FRANZ VON ZÜLOW* (Wien 1883 - 1963 Wien)

FRANZ VON ZÜLOW* (Vienna 1883 - 1963 Vienna) Lady with hood, 1950 Mixed media/paper, 39,5 x 28 cm signed F v Zülow, dated 1950 Provenance: private property Vienna ESTIMATED PRICE € 1.500 - 2.500 STARTING PRICE € 1.500 Austrian painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. Representative of classical modernism. Studied from 1903 to 1906 at the Vienna School of Applied Arts under Felician Myrbach and Carl Otto Czeschka. Explored graphic techniques, developed his own paper-cutting stencil technique in 1907. Participates in the 1908 art show organized by Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann. Commissioned by Josef Hofmann to design wallpaper for a children's room in the Palais Stoclet. From 1909 in Haugsdorf, where his mother and sister lived. 1915 to 1919 military service, became an Italian prisoner of war. 1920 to 1922 teacher at the Schleiß ceramic workshops in Gmunden. From 1922 he commuted between Vienna and Upper Austria. Works in the arts and crafts and illustrations for the Wiener Werkstätte, among others. From the 1920s also oil paintings, especially landscapes. Belonged to the Zinkenbach painters' colony in the interwar period, like Ferdinand Kitt, Josef Dobrowsky, Ernst Huber, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Oskar Laske, Georg Merkel, Louise Merkel-Romee and Georg Ehrlich. 1942 Prohibited from painting. 1945 Member of the Vienna Secession and the Linz Artists' Association MAERZ. From 1949 teacher at the School of Arts and Crafts in Linz and from 1955 president of the Mühlviertler Künstlergilde. Influenced by the decorative and flat ornamental art of Art Nouveau and folk art. Created mainly children's books, posters, calendar graphics, murals, wallpaper, carpets, fabrics. But also prints, watercolors, drawing and oil paintings with landscapes, rural and religious motifs, fairy-tale and fantastic scenes. Please note: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the droit de suite. In the case of normal taxation (marked with °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium shall be subject to the statutory sales tax of 13%, or 20% in the case of photographs. In the case of differential taxation, the buyer's premium is 28%. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.