363 - Herbert Gurschner* (Innsbruck 1901 - 1975 London)

Herbert Gurschner* (Innsbruck 1901 - 1975 London) Farm in Tyrol,1929 oil/canvas 49,2 x 59,8 cm signed H. Gurschner, dated 1929 inscribed Tirol depicted in Widder, Herbert Gurschner, 2000, p. 75 SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 16000 - 30000 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 16000 Herbert Gurschner was an Austrian painter, graphic artist, and stage designer of the 20th century, whose work was primarily created during the interwar period. He is considered one of the leading figures of Tyrolean Modernism, alongside artists such as Artur Nikodem, Ernst Nepo, Wilhelm Nicolaus Prachensky, and Hans Tyrol-Weber. Stylistically, Gurschner's work moves between Expressionism and New Objectivity, with both emotional expressiveness and clear formal structures playing a central role. As the nephew of the sculptors Emil and Gustav Gurschner, he was exposed to art at an early age. He attended the School of Applied Arts in Innsbruck and continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich between 1918 and 1920. Around 1920, Gurschner lived in Mühlau near Innsbruck and participated in the so-called "Mühlau Circle," an artists' group around Alfons Schnegg, Rudolf Lehnert, and Ernst Nepo. In the early 1920s, Gurschner created numerous landscapes and cityscapes, inspired by travels through Tyrol, Salzburg, and Italy. In 1924, he married the English aristocrat Dolores Cherwadsky-Damarkow, through whom he gained access to London's artistic and collector circles. In 1929, he exhibited for the first time at the prestigious Fine Art Society in London, establishing contacts with members of the aristocracy, diplomacy, and business. Further exhibitions in London and New York followed in later years. After his first marriage, he had a second, to Brenda Davidoff. Besides landscapes and portraits, he also created impressive nudes, distinguished by their synthesis of formal awareness and psychological depth. His work reveals a wide range of influences, from artists such as Giorgio de Chirico, Lovis Corinth, Franz Defregger, Helene Funke, Alfred Kubin, Franz Marc, Alfons Mucha, Sergius Pauser, and Paul Klee to Wassily Kandinsky. Parallels to contemporaries of Tyrolean Modernism such as Ernst Nepo, Wilhelm Nicolaus Prachensky, Leo Sebastian Huemer, Rudolf Lehnert, Franz Santifaller, Hans André, Janosch, Hans Dressler, Edgar Jené, and Edmund Kalb are also noticeable. Through these connections, Herbert Gurschner occupies a unique position between the Austrian avant-garde, Tyrolean tradition, and international Modernism. 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.