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CARRY HAUSER* (Vienna 1895 - 1985 Rekawinkel)
The sad smiling one, 1966
charcoal/paper, 50 x 32,5 cm
signed Carry Hauser, monogrammed CH, dated 1966
inscribed "Schmunzelnde Traurige"

ESTIMATE °€ 200 - 400
STARTING PRICE °€ 200

Austrian painter, stage designer, poet, writer of the 20th century. Studied at the School of Applied Arts in Vienna under Alfred Roller, Oskar Strnad, Anton von Kenner and Adolf Michae Boehm. In 1914 he volunteered for the First World War and returned as a pacifist. Befriended Franz Theodor Csokor and encouraged by Arthur Roessler. Member of the artist group Freie Bewegung and from 1925 to 1938 member of the Hagenbund. Lived temporarily in Passau, together with Georg Philipp Wörlen, Reinhard Hilker, Fritz Fuhrken and Franz Bronstert in the artist group Der Fels. From 1922 married to the classical philologist Gertrude Herzog-Hauser. During the Second World War in exile in Switzerland, wife and son fled to the Netherlands. From 1947 again involved in cultural reconstruction in Vienna. Secretary General and Vice President of the P.E.N. Club, Honorary President of the New Hagenbund. Stylistic development from classical, academic training through early Expressionism to New Objectivity. Themes of love, death, eros, narrative representations, religious themes, and images of Africa. Frequent self-portraits and examination of his own biography. Family pictures in the familiar and intimate togetherness of father, mother and child.

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