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JOSEF HEU (Maribor 1876 - 1952 Ampleforth)

Great Ayton (England), 1939
tempera/cardboard 62 x 45,7 cm
signed Josef Heu, dated 1939
entitled Great Ayton


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

Josef Heu was an Austrian-British sculptor, medalist, and painter. After attending the Graz School of Applied Arts, he studied at the Vienna Academy from 1893 to 1898 (1893/1894 guest student) with K. v. Zumbusch and E. Hellmer sculpture. Numerous works are in public spaces: “The Liberation of the Source” in the Vienna City Park (1902/1903), group of figures on the attic of the House of the Vienna Merchants in Vienna 1, Schwarzenbergplatz (1903), Statue of St. Johannes in the K. Lueger Memorial Church on the Wr. Central Cemetery, Young man figure “Dying Strength” in the Döblinger Cemetery in Vienna, Portrait relief of the Wolf grave in the Döbling cemetery (behind the arcades), Gable stele on the Austrian grave at the Döbling cemetery, “Young man with a goose” in Vienna Hietzing, Jenulgasse 9-13 (1930). From 1902 to 1909 he was a member of the Hagenbund (leaving with J. Urban and H. Lefler), and in 1913 he exhibited as a guest with the Hagenbund in the Vienna Künstlerhaus. From 1919 he was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus, He was also a member of the Austrian Society for Christian Art and its president from 1930 to 1934. In 1938/1939 Heu emigrated to Ampleforth in England with his Jewish wife. There he led v. a. Commissioned works from monasteries and churches (mostly in wood), as well as watercolour paintings. Works included in the collections of WienMuseum, Joanneum Graz, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna. Honours, prizes (selection): 1919 Dumba Prize, 1922 Karl Ludwig Promotion Prize, 1929 Golden Medal of Honour from the Vienna Künstlerhaus, 1933 State Honorary Award, 1933 Large Gold Medal of Honour from the Vienna Künstlerhaus. Further artists and styles: Akademie der bildenden Künste, Johann Georg Platzer, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Friedrich von Amerling, Otto Wagner, Eduard Ameseder, Carl O’Lynch of Town, Richard Gerstl, Max Domenig, Robin Christian Andersen, Egon Schiele, Paul Kassecker, Hans Kneslm Heinz Leinfellner, Rudolf Hausner, Joannis Avramidis, Maximilian Melcher, Alfred Hrdlicka, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Arik Brauer, Wolfgang Hollegha, Anton Lehmden, Josef Mikl, Ernst Fuchs, Armin Pramstaller, Cornelius Kolig, Meina Schellander, Franz West, Gottfried Helnwein, Manfred Deix, Heimo Zobernig, Gunter Damisch, Daniel Richter, Monica Bonvicini, dorit Margreiter, Herbert Boeckl, Josef Dobrowsky, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Willy Eisenschitz. 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 Peschkam 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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