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OSKAR MATULLA* (Vienna 1900 - 1982 Vienna)

On the Danube, 1967
7 woodcuts/paper 25 x 30 cm
all the sheets signed Oskar Matulla

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

Oskar Matulla was an Austrian painter, graphic artist, and writer. After school, the son of a master locksmith attended teacher training college and, from 1918 to 1920, the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) under Franz Cizek. After a period as Cizek's assistant, he worked as a drawing teacher in Bruck an der Leitha. In 1927, he returned to the Kunstgewerbeschule, this time under Erich Malina, to further his education in woodcutting. In 1929, he became a member of the Zentralverband bildender Künstler Österreichs (Central Association of Austrian Artists), and, after the "Anschluss", Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938, he became a consultant for painting in the Reichskammer der Bildenden Künste (Reich Chamber of Fine Arts). From 1940, he was again employed as an art teacher. After the war, he lived in Hengersdorf near Passau until 1947, where he became a member of the Donau-Wald-Gruppe. In 1947, he returned to Lower Austria, living in Perchtoldsdorf, and gave up teaching. From 1948 to 1950, he studied at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt (Graphic Teaching and Research Institute), and in 1949 under Josef Dorowsky at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 1955, he studied lithography at the Mourlot Studios in Paris. In 1950, Matulla became a member of the Vienna Secession, he became its vice president in 1956. He also taught painting courses at Viennese adult education centres. In 1964, he founded the "Gruppe 64," an association of Lower Austrian artists, this group existed until 1972. He was also a member of the „Wiener Neustädter Künstlervereinigung“ (Wiener Neustadt Artists' Association). He worked in a style charcterised by figuration reduced to simple forms and enriched by small-scale cubist elements. Wiener Neustadt named Oskar-Matulla-Gasse after the artist. Honours: 1962: Professor, 1963: Lower Austrian Cultural Prize for Fine Arts, 1969: Premio int. Amicizia Europea Santhia Piemont, 1969: Gustav Klimt Award from the Secession, 1970: 1st Radio Play Award of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, 1981: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. Further artists and styles: Landscape, Oil painting, Cubism, Realism, Expressionism, New Objectivity, Abstraction, Woodcut, Etching, Architecture, Animal

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