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HILDE LEITER* (Vienna 1925 - 2015 Maria Enzensdorf)

Lederhosen imp
mixed media/paper 31 x 22 cm
verso collage of a flying donkey

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 200 - 400
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 200

Grew up in the artists’ settlement “Am Rosenhügel”. Studied at the University of Applied Arts, master class in fabric printing and wallpaper. Later married children's book author Helmut Leiter, pseudonym “Hans Domenego”. Working together for over 35 years. Collaboration in the “Wiener Gruppe” with Hans Weigel, Elfriede Ott, Käthe Recheis, Mira Lobe, Christine Nöstlinger, Felix Mitterer, Hans Fronius and Lene Mayer-Skumanz. From the 1970s, she worked for the Austrian Youth Book Club. Leiter created collages, drawings, watercolors, etc. Hilde and Helmut Leiter received several awards, including the Austrian Children's and Young People's Book Prize and the Children's Book Prize of the City of Vienna. Hilde Leiter died on July 5, 2015 in Maria Enzersdorf. Further artists and styles: illustration, children's book, youth book, applied art, childhood, Erna Kopriva, Adolf Loos, Emil Krause, Josef Hoffmann, Josef Maria Olbrich, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Christian Ludwig Attersee, Franz Barwig der Ältere, Wander Bertoni, Max Domenig, Adolf Frohner, Bruno Gironcoli, Zaha Hadid, Anton Hanak, Matthias Herrmann, Wolfgang Hutter, Martha Jungwirth, Erika Giovanna Klien, Gustav Klimt, Hans Knesl, Oskar Kokoschka, Brigitte Kowanz, Maria Lassnig, Bertold Löffler, Dorit Margreiter, Koloman Moser, Oswald Oberhuber, Michael Powolny, Pipilotti Rist, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Hans Schabus, Eva Schlegel, Vivienne Westwood, Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill, Erwin Wurm, Otto Zitko

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The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.