56 - Marianne Fieglhuber-Gutscher* (Vienna 1886 - 1978 Graz)

Marianne Fieglhuber-Gutscher* (Vienna 1886 - 1978 Graz) Two women on the sofa pencil and charcoal/paper 49,7 x 60 cm depicted in Widder, Fieglhuber-Gutscher, 2022, p.38, Nr. 42. SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 400 - 600 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 400 Marianne Fieglhuber-Gutscher was an Austrian painter of the 20th century and belongs to the so-called "forgotten generation" of female artists who, despite their high artistic quality, remained largely unnoticed for decades. Her work is classified as expressive realism and is characterized by vibrant colors, clear composition, and a sensitive observation of interpersonal relationships. From 1904, she received her training at the Art School for Women and Girls in Vienna, where she studied under Maximilian Kurzweil and Ludwig Michalek. Early on, she joined the Etching Club of Viennese Women Artists and regularly participated in its exhibitions. Later, Fieglhuber-Gutscher furthered her training with private painting lessons from Robin Christian Andersen and Egge Sturm-Skrla, both of whom maintained close ties to the Viennese avant-garde art scene: Andersen was a member of the Neukunstgruppe (New Art Group) around Egon Schiele, while Sturm-Skrla belonged to the Hagenbund and maintained a friendly relationship with Anton Faistauer. Fieglhuber-Gutscher exhibited at the Vienna Künstlerhaus, the Secession, and the Neuer Hagenbund—institutions that were crucial to the development of Austrian Modernism. Her artistic career marked a transition from the decoratively oriented Art Nouveau to intense color Expressionism. Her work encompasses landscapes, still lifes, figure paintings, and female nudes, demonstrating a unique combination of emotional expressiveness and formal unity. Within the art historical context, connections can be drawn to important artists such as Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Joseph Maria Olbrich, whose designs significantly shaped Art Nouveau. Likewise, affinities with Expressionist artists like Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Gerstl, Albin Egger-Lienz, and Egon Schiele are evident, whose color-intensive and psychologically charged style also resonates in her work. Furthermore, Fieglhuber-Gutscher belongs to a broader intellectual milieu, encompassing artists such as Albert Paris Gütersloh, Matthias Herrmann, Lois Pregartbauer, Rudolf von Alt, Broncia Koller-Pinell, Anton Mahringer, and Karl Revy, whose works—spanning realism, expressionism, and modernism—reveal a similar search for personal truth and pictorial clarity. Marianne Fieglhuber-Gutscher's painting thus occupies a unique position within 20th-century Austrian art—in the tension between the decorative elegance of Art Nouveau, the expressive intensity of modernism, and the quiet strength of female self-assertion in a male-dominated art world. 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.