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LUDWIG MICHALEK (Timișoara 1859 - 1942 Vienna) Christmas etching/paper 21 x 15,2 cm signed Ludwig Michalek SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 60 - 150 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 60 The painter, graphic artist and engraver Ludwig Michalek was born as the son of a railway engineer in Timisoara in Banat, today Romania. After completing secondary school in Brno, he studied from 1873 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with August Eisenmenger, Christian Griepenkerl and Carl Wurzinger. In 1876, further studies followed with the graphic artist Louis Jacoby. From 1884 to 1887 he was an assistant at the Vienna Academy's general painting school for life drawing. Numerous study trips took him to Italy, France, England, the Netherlands and Germany. Michalek was one of the founders of the etching class at the Vienna Kunstschule für Frauen und Mädchen (Art School for Women and Girls), where since 1898 he taught the main course for “Head and Nude” and other courses for “Daytime Nude and Semi-Nude” as well as “Nature Studies in Preparation for Arts and Crafts Purposes”. In 1909 he became a professor at the Graphic Teaching and Research Institute in Vienna. He held this position until 1920. At the same time, he gave courses in etching at the Kunstschule für Frauen und Mädchen. Michalek created numerous series of engravings and etchings, such as composers, poets, Austrian Alpine railways, landscape and technical subjects. He also made reproductions based on old masters. He then created a large number of portraits, mostly in pastel. In 1888 Michalek received a Mention honorable at the Paris Salon, in 1896 the Golden Medal at the Berlin International Art Exhibition and in 1936 the Silver Jubilee Medal from the Cooperative of Fine Artists in Vienna. In 1940, he received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science. Michalek married the pianist Lili Bailetti in 1883. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° at the estimate), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. This amounts to 13% for paintings, drawings, graphic works and sculptures and 20% for photographs and all other items. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.