OSKAR LASKE (Czernowitz 1874 - 1951 Vienna)
Nameday, 1940
watercolor and pencil/paper, 11,6 x 9,4 cm
inscribed Namenstag Lisl Laske Kess. Atelier Nisselgasse 19 April 1940

ESTIMATE °€ 150 - 300
STARTING PRICE °€ 150

Austrian painter, graphic artist, book illustrator and architect of the 20th century, especially of the interwar period. Studied architecture at the Academy under Otto Wagner. Apart from a course in landscape painting with Anton Hlavacek, self-taught painter. From 1905 member of the Jungbund, from 1907 member of the Hagenbund, from 1924 in the Vienna Secession and from 1928 in the Kuenstlerhaus. Travels through Europe to North America. Early landscapes and cityscapes with influences of mood impressionism. Created biblical, historical and genre scenes, with a preference for narrative and multi-figure representations. Imaginative, detailed and humorous with an expressive yet sensitive use of color.

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