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ELFRIEDE MILLER-HAUENFELS* (Graz 1893 - 1962 Vienna)

Cassone di Malcesine
oil/canvas 58,5 x 69 cm
signed Fride Miller
verso labelled Elfriede Miller-Hauenfels, Wien 9. Spitalgasse 17/24, "kleiner Hafen am Gardasee" Öl

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 900 - 1800
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 900

The Austrian painter Elfriede Miller-Hauenfels was the younger sister of the painter Erich Miller-Hauenfels. From 1913, she was trained at the Kunstschule für Frauen und Mädchen (Art School For Women and Girls) in Vienna, with Adalbert Franz Seligmann, Ludwig Michale, and Christian Ludwig Martin. As early as in the 1920s, she participated in a variety of exhibitions in Vienna, for example in the Künstlerhaus, in the Secession or in the Association of Viennese Art in the Museum of Art and Industry. In 1930, the frescoes were painted in the parish church Itzling in Salzburg. Miller-Hauenfels, especially as a painter, gained great prominence with her expressive woodcuts and religious motifs, landscapes and illustrations. Cassone is a district of the municipality (comune) of Malcesine on Lake Garda (Lago di Garda) in the province of Verona, Veneto region. Further Artists and Terms: Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, Josef Hoffmann, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Matthias Herrmann, Lois Pregartbauer, Rudolf von Alt, Oskar Kokoschka, Albin Egger-Lienz, Koloman Moser, Richard Gerstl, Broncia Koller-Pinell, Anton Mahringer, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Karl Revy, Egon Schiele.

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