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HELENE FUNKE* (Chemnitz 1869 - 1957 Vienna)

Pines, 1912
drypoint/paper (condition print) 20 x 27,1 cm
depicted in the catalogue raisonné Helene Funke Vienna 2011, p. 151

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 300 - 500
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 300

German-Austrian painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. Important artist of modernism, is described as a pioneer of emancipation and feminism because of the depictions of women. From 1899, she studied together with Gabriele Münter at the Münchner Damenakademie (Munich Ladies' Academy). 1905 to 1913, in Paris, like Paula Modersohn-Becker and Käthe Kollwitz. In 1913, she moved to Vienna. Member of the artist group Bewegung or Freie Bewegung, member of the group Wiener Frauenkunst and member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund. Exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'automne with Henri Matisse, George Braque and Maurice de Vlaminck. Contact with the Fauves, involvement with Impressionism, Fauvism and Expressionism. In Vienna, participated in exhibitions of the Vienna Secession, the Hagenbund, the Künstlerhaus and the Kunstschau. Created confident portrayals of women, figural scenes, portraits of women, nudes, and still lifes. Bathers, dancers, Arcadian landscapes, metropolitan scenes in theaters with influences from Asiatica and ancient Egyptian mummy portraits. Colour explosions with high luminosity and great expressiveness comparable to Helene Taussig. Subtle depictions of the human psyche comparable to Egon Schiele. 2007 first museum retrospective at Lentos in Linz, 2019 appreciation of the artist in the exhibition Stadt der Frauen at Österreichische Galerie Belvedere. In contrast to the colour-intensive paintings, safe but delicate lines of the drawing, comparable to Gustav Klimt. Further artists and styles: Frantz Jourdain, Georges Rouault, Albert Marquet, Édouard Vuillard, Odilon Redon, Paul Cézanne, Eugène Carrière, Henri Matisse, Kees van Dongen, Aristide Maillol, Constantin Brâncuși, Amedeo Modigliani, Felix Albrecht Harta, Marcel Duchamp,Josef Floch, Johannes Auerbach, Lajos Barta und Auguste Renoir, 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, Friedrich Aduatz, Eduard Ameseder, Robin Christian Andersen, Franz Barwig der Ältere, Leopold Blauensteiner, Hans Bren, Georg Ehrlich, Carl Fahringer, Josef Floch, Beni Ferenczy, Tibor Gergely, Gustav Gurschner, Felix Albrecht Harta, Karl Hauk, Carry Hauser, Wilhelm Hejda, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Rudolf Junk, Maximilian Kahrer, Eduard Kasparides, Wilhelm Kaufmann, Oskar Laske, Heinrich Lefler, Georg Mayer-Marton, Karl Mediz, Georg Merkel, Carl O’Lynch of Town, Ernst Paar, Anton Peschka, Robert Philippi, Michael Powolny, Heribert Potuznik, Lois Pregartbauer, Maximilian Reinitz, Heinrich Revy, Albert Reuss, Otto Rudolf Schatz, Fritz Schwarz-Waldegg, Maximilian Suppantschitsch, Eduard Thöny, Viktor Tischler, Georg Philipp Wörlen, Bettina Ehrlich, Anna Lesznai, Louise Merkel-Romée, Frieda Salvendy, Lilly Steiner
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