305 - Kurt Weber* (Weiz 1893 - 1964 Wagna)

Kurt Weber* (Weiz 1893 - 1964 Wagna) Reader, around 1935 oil/canvas 79 x 39 cm verso esatet stamp Kurt Weber SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 2000 - 4000 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 2000 Kurt Weber was an Austrian painter and graphic artist. After school in Graz and studying at the Altenburg Engineering School in Weimar, Weber moved to Berlin. He was drafted there as a soldier and returned there after the end of the war. In Berlin he came into contact with the circle of artists around Herwarth Walden, the influential editor of the magazine "Der Sturm", in which the artists of the avant-garde were introduced and published. At the beginning of the 1920s he went to Munich to study painting and then to Graz, where he studied with Daniel Pauluzzi, Wilhelm Thöny and Alfred Wickenburg. He had been a member of the Graz Secession since 1926. Between 1934 and 1936 he studied in Paris, where he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and met Robert Delaunay and Fernand Léger, who greatly influenced his artistic work. In 1936 Weber went to Spain, but returned to Germany via Italy after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. From 1941 to 1943 he was enrolled in stage design at the Vienna Academy. From 1945 he was a lecturer in artistic design at the Graz University of Technology. Since his stay in Paris, Weber's early work was strongly influenced by Delaunay's theory of colors and forms, while his post-war works can be assigned more to the Informel style. 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.