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6799 - Humplik, Josef
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Humplik, Josef "Ufergasse". Pen and ink in black over pencil underdrawing, on sturdy vellum. 24.5 x 32.7 cm. Monogrammed “H” in the lower right corner. On the reverse, handwritten in black pen: “'Ufergasse' Drawing by Josef Humplik. 1918.” Josef Humplik attended the Vienna School of Applied Arts from 1905 to 1909, and then the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna beginning in 1910. He frequently submitted works to exhibitions of the Vienna Secession and the Hagenbund; he was a member and officer of both institutions. During World War I, Humplik was drafted into the artillery in early 1915, but in March 1915 he volunteered for the Austro-Hungarian Air Force. He crashed during a training flight but survived with injuries. After the war, Josef Humplik specialized in portrait busts, creating works of Arnold Schönberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Gustav Klimt, Karl Kraus, and Grete Wiesenthal, among others. - Please ask for condition reports for the lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog.
Auction details
Drawings from the 16th to the 19th Centuries & Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki on the 300th Anniversary of His BirthAuction house
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