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TRUDE WAEHNER* (Vienna 1900 - 1979 Vienna)

Vesc
watercolor/paper 39 x 61,5 cm
verso inscribed Vesc I

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 400 - 600
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 400

Austrian painter of the 20th century. Studied at the Academy of Music for two years, then at the Vienna School of Art at Oskar Strnad and Josef Frank. From 1928 at the recommendation of Walter Gropius and mediation by Josef Frank at the Bauhaus in Dessau in the class of Paul Klee. Visited courses from Wassily Kandinsky. Went to Berlin in 1932, contact with Bruno Cassirer and contact with Bert Brecht, Otto Dix, Klaus and Erika Mann. In 1933 she went back to Vienna and fled to Switzerland, France, England to the USA after the connection in 1938. Her studio in Buchfeldgasse in Vienna was taken over by Heimito von Doderer, Albert Paris Gütersloh lived there as a sub-tenant. Always critical of Anti-Semitism and fascism, her second husband was Jewish origin. In the United States, she gave art lessons at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and at the Moravian Seminary and College for Women in Pennsylvania. After the war she lived in Vienna, South of France (Dieulefit) and Venice. 1937 Personnel in the Würthle gallery, member of the Austrian Werkbund. Began to make woodcuts more in Venice, many portraits and portraits of musicians, cellists, composers and conductors. This watercolour depicts a view of the area around Vesc in France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of the Drôme department. The municipality of Vesc is part of the canton of Dieulefit in the Nyons arrondissement. Further artists and styles: Woodcut, Alban Berg, Otto Klemperer, Gustav Mahler, Bruno Walter, Portrait, Expressionism, Watercolour, Realism, New Objectivity, Still life, 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, Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Dessau, Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Dessau, 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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