3807 - Georg Eisler, “Dancer in a Nightclub”

Georg Eisler, “Dancer in a Nightclub” naked woman on a stage in front of an audience, etching and aquatint, c. 1980, signed “Eisler” in lead below the image on the right and inscribed “E. d’A.” on the left, slightly mottled with brown spots, framed behind glass, image dimensions approx. 45 x 34.5 cm. Artist information: Austrian painter and graphic artist (1928 Vienna - 1998 Vienna), son of the composer Hanns Eisler, emigrated in 1936, lived with his mother in Moscow and Prague, and from 1939 in England, where he studied at the Stockport School of Art and the Manchester Academy; in 1944, whilst in London, he met Oskar Kokoschka, who tutored him; returned to Vienna in 1946; in 1961, he designed the sets and costumes for Otto Klemperer’s production of *The Magic Flute* at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London; from 1968 to 1972, he was President of the Vienna Secession; in 1972, he undertook a study visit to the Austrian Cultural Institute; in 1974, he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class; in 1976, he travelled to the USA; from 1981, he led classes at the Salzburg Summer Academy; from 1987, he held a visiting professorship at the Berlin University of the Arts; followed in 1990 by a further visiting professorship at the University of the Arts in Hamburg; Source: Vollmer, Saur, *Bio-Bibliographical Artists’ Encyclopaedia*, Fuchs and Wikipedia.