FRIEDRICH KÖNIG (Wien 1857 - 1941 Wien)

FRIEDRICH KÖNIG (Vienna 1857 - 1941 Vienna) Autumn forrest, around 1890 oil/canvas, 32,3 x 26,5 cm verso label Friedrich König, Werk-Nr.: 24 ESTIMATE € 800 - 1200 STARTING PRICE € 800 Friedrich König was an Austrian artist and illustrator. After attending the Vienna School of Applied Arts for two years, he was a student of Christian Griepenkerl at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from 1878 to 1883; then he went abroad. After his return to Vienna, he worked there as an illustrator for the 24-volume monumental work "Die österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild" (The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Words and Images, Verlag der k. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1885 - 1902). His focus was the decorative sector. There are only a few of his landscapes and monumental paintings in oil. König was initially a member of the Haagengesellschaft and in 1897 a founding member of the Secession; In 1939 he became a member of the Künstlerhaus. In 1943, the latter hosted an exhibition in his memory. 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.