6 - Leopold Blauensteiner (Vienna 1880 - 1947 Vienna)

Leopold Blauensteiner (Vienna 1880 - 1947 Vienna) My college city woodcut/paper 25,6 x 22,8 cm verso estate stamp SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 60 - 100 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 60 Leopold Blauensteiner was an Austrian artist. As a painter and graphic artist, he created landscapes and portraits in an idiosyncratic, often pointillist style of painting; as a graphic artist, he primarily created woodcuts. After attending the collegiate high school in Melk, together with Rudolf Junk and Richard Kurt Donin, Blauensteiner studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Christian Griepenkerl from 1898 to 1902. However, he broke off his studies prematurely and was a private student with Alfred Roller until 1903. In 1903 he made his first public appearance with woodcuts for Ver Sacrum. In 1904 and 1905 he took part in exhibitions at the Vienna Secession, and in 1908 and 1909 in the “Kunstschau”. Blauensteiner was a member of the artists' association “Die Hand” and the „Verein bildender Künstler Klosterneuburgs" (Association of Visual Artists Klosterneuburg) as well as the Hagenbund from 1911 to 1920, interrupted by military service from 1914 to 1916. He disarmed as a first lieutenant. From 1920, he was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus (president in 1937/1938). Study trips took him through Germany, Italy and Dalmatia. 1938 - 1945 Blauensteiner worked as head of the Reichskulturkammer der bildenden Künste (Reich Chamber of Fine Arts for Vienna), partly on a voluntary basis; however, during this time he campaigned for the preservation of works by endangered artists (e.g. Carry Hauser, Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele). Blauensteiner exhibited in various German cities and in Prague. His works are included in the Belvedere, in the Albertina, in the Vienna Museum and in the Lower Austrian State Museum. Honours, prizes (selection): 1927 Austrian State Prize; 1932 Professor h. c.; 1932 State Prize Medal. 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 and platform fee. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° at the estimate), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer's premium and platform fee. This amounts to 13% for paintings, drawings, graphic works and sculptures and 20% for photographs and all other items. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.