Acryl, oil crayon, felt pen, pencil and India ink on light cardboard
Austria, 2005
Franz Ringel (1940-2011) – Austrian artist
Signed and dated lower right in pencil ‘M.J.M. Ringel 05’
In black wooden frame
Dimensions: 42 x 55.5 cm
Good condition
Ringel’s art is characterized by his expressive style and intense colorfulness following the Austrian tradition of expressive body painting; the auction record for a mixed media work on paper by Ringel is set above €125,000.
Object is regular taxed. 19% VAT is added to the purchase price for deliveries within the EU.

In rapid and very vigorous stroke the artist has drawn with various chalks and pens a face shape. He combined it with very thickly applied pure chromatic acrylic paint that set with its three-dimensional materiality a counterpoint to the drawing. The paper, bulging by the pressure of the drawing instruments, adds a further three-dimensional component to the work.

The mixed media is signed and dated lower right with black felt pen ‘M.J.M. Ringel 05’. The sheet is mounted to a mat at several spots on the reverse and in good condition with technique-induced waving. The frame is overall in good condition with slight signs of wear. The sheet measures 42 x 55.5 cm. The framed dimensions are 65 x 83 cm.

Franz Ringel (1940-2011)

Franz Ringel studied from 1955 until 1959 at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Graz. Afterwards, he came for one year into the class of Hans Knesl at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. From 1960 until 1965, he took part in the course of Albert Paris Gütersloh at the same university. Ringel exhibited for the first time in 1940 at the Vienna Secession. At this time, still as a single artist. For a period of four years afterwards, he exhibited together with Martha Jungwirth, Kurt Kocherscheidt, Peter Pongratz and Wolfgang Zeppl-Sperl. Together they initiated the group Wirklichkeiten, who described themselves as ‘fantastic realists’. At the age of 40, he devoted his oeuvre increasingly to a ‘green’ period. After the death of his wife Maria in 1983, he published a book called ‘seventy-eight pictures for Maria’, which received a prize as one of the most beautiful books of Austria. Numerous exhibitions, mainly in Austria and with Austrian organizations, made his work known. In 1981 he was awarded the Prize of the City of Vienna for Fine Art, in 1989 the Austrian Art Prize for Fine Art and in 1998 the Honorary Prize of the Country of Styria for Fine Art. (fea)

Shipping costs excl. statutory VAT and plus 2,5% (+VAT) shipping insurance.

Due to the legal obligation for the resale royalty in the art market the following applies: As a result of its membership in the AV Kunst, Auctionata charges additionally to the hammer price the contribution to the AV Kunst of currently 2.1% of the revenues from the sale of fine arts and photographs pro rata towards the buyer. More information about royalty right in our T&C.