3808 - Paul Flora, Venice Print Collection

Paul Flora, Venice Print Collection four works: ‘Palazzo Vendramin’, ‘Carnevale Veneziano’, ‘Defilé’ and ‘Pulcinella’, hand-coloured offset lithographs on light card, 1982/83, each signed ‘Flora’ in lead below the image on the right, some minor signs of wear, image dimensions approx. 25 x 35 cm each, sheet dimensions approx. 34 x 44 cm each. Artist’s biography: Austrian draughtsman, caricaturist, graphic artist, illustrator and writer (1922, Glurns, Tyrol - 2009, Innsbruck), lived in Innsbruck from 1928, studied at the Munich Academy from 1942 to 1944 under Adolf Schinnerer and Olaf Gulbransson, and was also a pupil of Max von Esterle for a time; conscripted into military service in 1944, returned to Tyrol in 1945 and worked for various newspapers, including *Die Zeit* from 1957 to 1971; shared an artistic friendship with Alfred Kubin; became a member of the Art-Club Wien in 1948, in 1966 he took part in the Venice Biennale; since 1986 he has been a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts; from 1999 a member of the P.E.N. Club Liechtenstein (at times its president and honorary president), received numerous honours, including the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, and was appointed an Austrian professor; based in Innsbruck, in the Hungerburg district; source: Vollmer and the internet.