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ARTHUR OSKAR ALEXANDER (Zagreb 1876 - 1953 Samobor)

Bundle of two prints

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lithograph/paper 31,8 x 47,6 cm
signed in plate Alexander

Bad, Meierei, Kino
lithograph/paper 31,6 x 47,7 cm
signed in plate Alexander


SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 150 - 300
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 150

Arthur Oskar Alexander was an Austrian artist. He studied with Bauer in Zagreb in 1892/93, at the Vienna Art Academy in 1893/94, at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1894 to 1896 and again at the Vienna Academy from 1898 to 1899 with Franz Matsch and Franz Rumpler. He lived in Paris until 1905, after which he settled in Vienna. In 1897 Alexander was a co-founder and member of the “Society of Croatian Artists” in Zagreb. In 1905 he was represented in the Hagenbund for the first time and was a member from 1908 to 1931. From 1915 Alexander served as a war painter in the art group of the k.u.k. Kriegspressequartier (Imperial and Royal war press office) and spent longer periods at the war theatre and in the final two years of the war on the Isonzo Front, There he mainly portrayed naval aviators. As a member of the jury at war picture exhibitions, he was also able to regularly make his own works available to the public. In 1937 he organized a collective exhibition in Vienna's Burggarten that contained all of his aviator paintings from the First World War. During the interwar period, Alexander lived as a Royal Hungarian professor in Vienna. Persecuted during the Nazi era because of his Jewish origins, he left Vienna in 1938, returned to Yugoslavia and settled in Samobor. Alexander primarily painted impressionistic landscapes, portraits and figure paintings. He portrayed, among others, Emile Zola, Oscar Wilde, Engelbert Dollfuß and Josip Broz Tito. Alexander exhibited at the World's Fair in Paris in 1900, solo exhibitions, among others: 1937 in the Glass Palace of the Vienna Burggarten (aviator pictures and other works), 1944 in Zagreb, and 1946 in Samobor. His works can be found in the following collections: Belvedere, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military History Museum) in Vienna, Modern Gallery in Zagreb, Municipal Museum in Zagreb. In 1998, Alexander's works were shown at the Umjetnicki Paviljon in Zagreb.

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