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ANTON KOLIG (Neutitschein 1886 - 1950 Noetsch)
Reclining male nudes
pencil/paper, 52,5 x 42,5 cm

ESTIMATE € 3000 - 5000
STARTING PRICE € 3000

Austrian painter of expressionism, color expressionism and late expressionism of the 20th century. Originated from Neutitschein in Moravia, from 1904 in Vienna. Studied with Oskar Kokoschka at the School of Arts and Crafts, moved to the Academy of Fine Arts to Heinrich Lefler, Rudolf Bacher and Alois Delug. There he met Sebastian Isepp and Franz Wiegele, and with Isepp he frequented the salons of Eugenie Schwarzwald and Berta Zuckerkandl. Founded the Neukunstgruppe in 1909 with Egon Schiele, Albert Paris Gürtersloh, Anton Faistauer and Franz Wiegele. Married Franz Wiegele's sister in 1912. Showed his works for the first time together with Oskar Kokoschka, Anton Faistauer, Sebastian Isepp and Frnaz Wiegele at the Hagenbund exhibition in 1911. On the recommendation of Gustav Klimt and Carl Moll scholarship for Paris. As a war painter in the First World War. Created tapestries and mosaics for the Festspielhaus in Salzburg and frescoes for the Landhaus in Klagenfurt in the 1920s. Together with Sebastian Isepp, Anton Mahringer and Franz Wiegele in the artists' group Nötscher Kreis with its domicile in Nötsch in the Gail Valley in Carinthia. From 1928 professor at the Academy in Stuttgart, member of the Prague Secession.

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