Anton Kolig (Neutitschein 1886 - 1950 Nötsch)

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Anton Kolig (Neutitschein 1886 - 1950 Nötsch) Cowering man pencil/paper 40,5 x 28 cm SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 2000 - 3000 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 2000 An Austrian painter of 20th-century Expressionism, Color Expressionism, and Late Expressionism, he came from Nový Jičín in Moravia and lived in Vienna from 1904 onward. There he studied with Oskar Kokoschka at the School of Applied Arts, later transferring to the Academy of Fine Arts to study under Heinrich Lefler, Rudolf Bacher, and Alois Delug. He also met Sebastian Isepp and Franz Wiegele, with whom he frequented the salons of Eugenie Schwarzwald and Berta Zuckerkandl. In 1909, he founded the Neukunstgruppe (New Art Group) with Egon Schiele, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Anton Faistauer, and Wiegele. In 1911, he exhibited works together with Kokoschka, Faistauer, Isepp, and Wiegele for the first time at the Hagenbund exhibition. On the recommendation of Gustav Klimt and Carl Moll, he received a scholarship to Paris. As a war artist in the First World War, he created powerful scenes that foreshadowed his expressive male nudes and vibrant use of color. In the 1920s, he designed tapestries and mosaics for the Salzburg Festival Hall and frescoes for the Klagenfurt State Parliament building. Together with Sebastian Isepp, Anton Mahringer, and Franz Wiegele, he formed the Nötsch Circle, based in Nötsch in the Gail Valley, where color expressionism flourished in close artistic collaboration—influenced by Herbert Boeckl and Egon Schiele. From 1928, he taught as a professor at the Stuttgart Academy and was a member of the Prague Secession; he received the Austrian State Prize for his life's work. His monumental wall and room designs, as well as his nude studies, combine the sensual color palette of color expressionism with the emotional power of late expressionism, while close ties to colleagues such as Bacher, Wiegele, and Isepp, as well as to the Nötsch tradition, underscore his central role in Austrian modernism. 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.