KARL HAUK* (Klosterneuburg 1898 - 1974 Wien)

KARL HAUK* (Klosterneuburg 1898 - 1974 Vienna) Lamentation of Christ oil/board, 44 x 57 cm monogrammed HK ESTIMATE °€ 900 - 1800 STARTING PRICE °€ 900 Austrian artist of the 20th century, especially of the interwar period. Main representative of the New Objectivity, Expressionism and Social Critical Realism. Grew up in Linz in Upper Austria, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts with Alois Delug, Karl Sterrer and Josef Jungwirth. Member of the Hagenbund and the Maerz artists' association. Besides oil paintings, drawings and watercolors, created many works for public spaces, so-called Kunst am Bau projects. In 1928 frescoes for the Chamber of Labor in Linz, 1936 frescoes for the main train station in Linz and glass windows for the parish church in Sandleiten in Vienna. Friend of Clemens Holzmeister. Important representative of Christian art, in addition to church windows and mosaics, numerous religious paintings and watercolors. Created figure paintings, mosaics, frescoes and landscapes with motifs from the Salzkammergut around the Attersee. Hauk studied from 1918 to 1923 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Jungwirth, Sterrer and Delug and exhibited in 1920 for the first time as part of a joint exhibition of the association of artists and art lovers of the "Ring" in Linz. From 1923 on Hauk commuted between Linz and Vienna and worked as a freelance artist. He repeatedly exhibited at the Vienna Secession, the Hagenbund and the Maerz Artists' Association, of which he was a member. From 1927 to 1938 Hauk was a member of the Hagenbund and was later able to work and exhibit in spite of the Nazi regime. Between 1943 and 1945 he was drafted into military service. In 1947 he took over the directorship of the art school in Linz and led a master class for painting until 1951. He exhibited regularly in Vienna and Linz in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1959, the Upper Austrian State Museum organized the collective exhibition "Hauk-Dimmel-Hofmann" with over 40 of Hauk's works. After the war he was mainly active as a designer of frescoes, mosaics and murals that can be found on over 50 public buildings, mainly in Linz and Vienna. 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.