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FRIEDRICH ADUATZ* (Pula 1907 - 1994 Voitsberg)

Composition with orange
mixed media/paper 30 x 40 cm
signed F Aduatz
inscribed zu Weihnachten 1989 Für Peter Chrastek

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

Aduatz grew up in Pula, Istria, as the son of a k.u.k. police officer. The Mediterranean atmosphere influenced his artistic style, as he attended an Italian school and was inspired by ship painters at the Pula harbor. At the age of 15, Aduatz moved to Graz to study and work as a teacher while taking art classes with Wilhelm Thöny. He became a member of both the Graz Secession and the Vienna Hagenbund in 1934 and exhibited regularly in both cities. However, the Hagenbund was dissolved in 1938, and Aduatz was banned from exhibiting his art, which was labelled as "degenerate". He was drafted into the German army in 1939 and lived in Voitsberg, Styria, with his wife. During the war, Aduatz was stationed in Italy, Czech Republic, and Slovenia. After the war, he resumed exhibiting his art publicly and participated in exhibitions in the Vienna Secession, Graz, Italy, Germany, and South America. Further artists and styles: Josef Hoffmann, Lois Pregartbauer, Oskar Kokoschka, Anton Mahringer, Emil Beischläger, Hans Bren, Georg Ehrlich, Otto Rudolf Schatz, Fritz Schwarz Waldegg, Carry Hauser, Wilhelm Kaufmann, Anton Peschka, Maximilian Reinitz, Bettina Ehrlich, Eleonore Doelter, Marianne Fieglhuber-Gutscher, Josef Floch, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Carl Moll, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Albert Reuss, Herbert von Reyl-Hanisch, Frieda Salvendy, Konstantin Stoitzner, Viktor Tischler, My Ullmann, Franz Barwig der Ältere, Leopold Blauensteiner, Carl Fahringer, Beni Ferenczy, Tibor Gergely, Gustav Gurschner, Felix Albrecht Harta, Karl Hauk, Carry, Hauser, Wilhelm Hejda, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Rudolf Junk, Max Kahrer, Eduard Kasparides, Oskar Laske, Georg Mayer Marton, und Carl Zewy

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