Emilie Mediz-Pelikan (Vöcklabruck 1861 - 1908 Dresden)

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Emilie Mediz-Pelikan (Vöcklabruck 1861 - 1908 Dresden) Rocky landscape, 1899 lithograph/paper 33 x 42 cm signed Emilie Pelikan, dated 1899 SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 100 - 200 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 100 Emilie Mediz-Pelikan, born in Vöcklabruck, was a significant Austrian landscape painter. She studied at the Vienna Academy and was the last private student of Albert Zimmermann, whom she followed to Salzburg and Munich. In 1891, she married Karl Mediz; the couple lived in Dresden from 1894 onward. Stays in the artists' colony of Dachau and Knokke, as well as travels to Paris, Belgium, Hungary, and Italy, shaped her work. Landscape painting is central to her oeuvre, which she developed within the context of Impressionism, atmospheric Impressionism, Art Nouveau, and Symbolism. Her often atmospherically dense depictions reveal an intense observation of nature; a characteristic motif is birch trees, comparable to the works of Gustav Klimt. She also created drawings and prints. Stylistically, she is close to artists such as Tina Blau, Olga Wisinger-Florian, and Marie Egner. Her artistic breakthrough came around 1900. After her early death in 1908, her work initially fell into oblivion and was only rediscovered from the 1980s onwards – partly through exhibitions in Linz and Vienna (University of Applied Arts and Arts, respectively). In a broader context, connections can be drawn to artists and institutions of modernism, such as Koloman Moser, Oskar Kokoschka, and Gustav Klimt, as well as to figures associated with the University of Applied Arts, such as Erika Giovanna Klien, Adolf Frohner, and Anton Hanak. Mediz-Pelikan's daughter was the artist Gertrude Honzatko-Mediz. 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.