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WILLY EISENSCHITZ* (Vienna 1889 - 1974 Paris)

Autumn landscape in Provence
oil/canvas 61 x 81,4 cm
signed W Eisenschitz


SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 10000 - 20000
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 10000

Willy Eisenschitz was a Austro-French painter of the 20th century. He came from a Jewish family and began studying painting at the Academy in Vienna in 1911. Went to Paris in 1912 to the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Acquaintance with the painter Claire Bertrand, marriage before the start of the First World War. Interned during the war and released towards the end of the war. First stay in southern France in 1921, transformation of his artistic work under the impression of the southern light. He repeatedly suffered from health problems and stayed in the climatic health resort of Dieulefît. Move to La Valette-du-Var near Toulon. Member of the Societé Nationale des Beaux Arts, exhibited at the Salon d’Automnes in Paris, also at the Galerie Durand-Ruel and the Museum in Toulon. In Paris he maintained contacts with Josef Floch, Viktor Tischler, Georg Merkel and Walter Bondy. During the Second World War he retreated to Dieulefît, signed his works with the pseudonym Villiers. From 1951 he also travelled to Ibiza and lived alternately in Paris and Provence. After the death of his wife in 1969, he returned to Paris. Created primarily oil paintings and watercolours with landscapes and city views, influenced by the nature and light of southern France. Weiterführende Künstler und Begriffe: 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

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