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Julius Klinger (Vienna 1876 - 1942 Malyy Trostenets) Beethoven etching/paper 27 x 36,5 cm monogram stamp JK SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 100 - 200 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 100 Julius Klinger (Vienna 1876 - 1942 Malyy Trostenets) was an Austrian painter, draftsman, illustrator, commercial artist, typographer, and poster designer of Jewish descent. Born on May 22, 1876, in Vienna-Dornbach, he trained at the Benedikt lithographic institute, briefly studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts, moved to Munich and Berlin in 1897 (working for the magazines "Lustige Blätter" and "Meggendorfer Blätter"), taught at the Reimann School from 1911 to 1914, co-founded the Association of Artistic Window Dressers and was a member of the German Werkbund in 1912, returned to Vienna in 1915 (war posters, studio on Schellinggasse with courses), and published "Poster Art in Vienna" in 1923 and "Das Chaos der Künste" in 1924. A victim of the Holocaust, deported and murdered in 1942. Klinger revolutionized the poster with functional, geometrically clear designs (e.g., Manoli cigarettes, Hollerbaum & Schmidt, Johannisthal Air Day, Ankerbrot), objectivity instead of decoration, influenced by Kolo Moser and Adolf Loos; book illustrations, trademarks, typography with a radical reduction to line, surface, and symbolism. Further artists and styles: Kolo Moser, Adolf Loos, Lucian Bernhard, Hans Rudi Erdt, Albert Reimann, Wiener Werkstätte, Deutscher Werkbund, poster style, functionalism, Reimann School, Maly Trostinets, Ankerbrot poster, Vienna School of Applied Arts, decorative graphics, applied arts, magazine "Wiener Mode", magazine "Jugend", Meggendorfer Blätter, Lucian Bernhard, Ludwig Hohlwein, Julius Gipkens 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.