312 - Georg Eisler* (Vienna 1928 - 1998 Vienna)

Georg Eisler* (Vienna 1928 - 1998 Vienna) Jazz band, 1960 oil/canvas 60 x 80 cm depicted in Petrovic/Uhde, Online catalogue raisonné Georg Eisler, 2024, GE 159 SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 4000 - 8000 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 4000 A 20th-century Austrian painter and graphic artist. Born in Vienna in 1928 to the composer Hanns Eisler and his wife Charlotte Eisler, he emigrated with his family to Moscow in 1936 and subsequently to England in 1938. There, he was mentored by Oskar Kokoschka; he returned to Vienna in 1946 and attended evening life-drawing classes taught by Herbert Boeckl at the Academy of Fine Arts. Eisler continued to divide his time between Vienna and England, creating portraits of associates such as Helmut Qualtinger, Erich Fried, and Ernst Fischer, as well as scenes from coffeehouses and depictions of demonstrations. His expressive, figurative painting belongs to the realm of post-war modernism, combining influences from Kokoschka and Boeckl with a distinctly socially critical perspective. His work focuses on the individual within the crowd, street clashes, political demonstrations, and memories of flight and exile. In this regard, his work can be linked to artists such as Alfred Hrdlicka, Rudolf Schönwald, and Fritz Martinz, who—in various ways—represent a socially engaged, expressive, and figurative strain of Austrian art in the post-1945 era. Eisler’s work falls within the context of exile art, political figuration, and the Viennese coffeehouse scene; pieces by the artist are also held in the collection of the Belvedere in 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 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.