299 - Oskar Laske (Chernivtsi 1874 - 1951 Vienna)

Oskar Laske (Chernivtsi 1874 - 1951 Vienna) Sermon to the birds color lithography, colored/paper 37,5 x 43 cm signed in the plate O. Laske SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 800 - 1600 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 800 Oskar Laske was an Austrian painter, graphic artist, book illustrator, and architect of the 20th century, primarily during the interwar period, born in Czernowitz (Bukovina). He studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Otto Wagner, took only one landscape painting course with Anton Hlavacek, and remained a self-taught painter. Notable buildings include the Engel Pharmacy "Zum weißen Engel" (Bognergasse 9, Vienna) and the cabaret "Nachtlicht." From 1905, he was a member of the Jungbund (Young League), from 1907 of the Hagenbund (until 1922), from 1924 of the Vienna Secession (until 1939/45), and from 1928/39 of the Künstlerhaus (Artists' House). His travels throughout Europe (Greece, Turkey, Belgium, the Netherlands, Tunisia, Spain, North America) and as a war artist for the Austro-Hungarian Army (Galicia, Isonzo, Romania) significantly influenced his work. Early landscape paintings and vedute in the atmospheric Impressionist style, later genre scenes, biblical/historical scenes – imaginative, detailed, humorous, narrative, with expressive use of color in gouache, watercolor, lithography, and etching. Laske designed stage sets and costumes, illustrated books (design, architectural painting), and organized regular meetings with theater performances and readings. Influenced by Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann, Rudolf Bacher, the Wiener Werkstätte, the Wiener Werkbund, Ver Sacrum, and Cubism. Brother of the painter Elisabeth Kesselbauer-Laske. 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.