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WERNER KOCH* (Straßburg 1904 - 1961 Malsch)

Playing girl, 1946
oil/canvas 72 x 87 cm
dated 1946
verso dated 26.3.1946

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 1000 - 2000
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 1000

Werner Koch was a German painter and art teacher. He spent his youth in Karlsruhe, where he also received his education at the Landeskunstschule under Karl Hubbuch. During his time as a student, Koch also met his future wife Klara Schindler, the daughter of the painter Theodor Schindler. The couple lived with her parents-in-law from 1945 in the "Schindlerhaus" in Malsch near Karlsruhe, which was built in 1932. In Karlsruhe Koch found a livelihood as a drawing teacher. As a "drawing teacher candidate" he worked in Gernsbach, Baden-Baden and Bretten, among other places. After his return from American captivity in 1945, Koch worked as an art teacher in Bretten and later at the Eichendorff Gymnasium in Ettlingen until his death.
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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.