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SIGFRIED CHAROUX* (Vienna 1896 - 1967 London)

Bundle of two drawings

Female portrait
pen/paper 25,4 x 20,5 cm
verso hand written text

Study of an old man
pen/paper 17,2 x 11,3 cm
verso sketch of a body
Address emblem Charoux 65 Holland

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 250 - 500
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 250

Siegfried Buchta, or Siegfried Charoux, was an Austro-British sculptor, painter, draftsman and caricaturist. During the World War he made his first sculptural attempts and became acquainted with the painters Robin Christian Andersen, Eugen Sturm-Skrla and Johann Kodanich, and later with Gustav Schütt and Broncia Koller-Pinell. Charoux turned entirely to sculpture in 1919 and began private studies with Josef Heu, 1922 - 1924 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Hans Bitterlich. From 1923 to 1928 Charoux worked as a political cartoonist for the Arbeiter-Zeitung and other left-wing and left-liberal newspapers. He made his debut at the 1927 art show with an unpreserved design for a Robert Blum monument. In 1935 Charoux's monument to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was unveiled on Vienna's Judenplatz. In 1935 Charoux emigrated to London. In 1940 he was interned on the Isle of Man. A British citizen since 1946, he became an Associate of the Royal Academy (A.R.A.) in 1949 and a Full Member (R.A.) in 1956. He taught at the Royal Academy Sculpture School and received several public commissions in Great Britain and Austria. In Charoux's painterly work, watercolors and opaque paintings dominate in the early and middle creative periods. Towards the end of the fifties he experimented increasingly with acrylics. Preferred subjects are still lifes, landscapes (especially Cornwall, Gastein), music, and studies of his sculptural work. In his extensive drawing work predominate figure studies and monument designs. Further artists and styles: Expressionism, Auguste Trodin, Aristide Maillol, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Georg Kolbe, caricature, Charles Despiau, figuration, portrait, bronze, ink, realism, New Objectivity

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