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FRANZ MODLIK* (1902 - 1986)

Homestead with hay bales
charcoal/paper 11,5 x 18,5 cm
verso estate stamp

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 50 - 100
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 50

Franz Modlik was an Austrian Trotskyist activist of the interwar period. It is little known that, as a young man, Franz Modlik also emerged as a painter and draftsman in the 1920s. His preferred subject matter was workers oppressed by capitalism and marked by exploitation. In his work on visual artists of the interwar period, Christoph Bertsch counts Modlik as "part of the immediate circle of the communist leader Dr. Josef F[r]ey," one of the "most important representatives of the left-wing opposition within the Communist Party of Austria." Modlik's Bound Worker from 1927 was undoubtedly created under the immediate impression of the Palace of Justice fire. According to Bertsch, it is an "impressive depiction" of an oppressed worker "with his head thrown back, whose face suggests death." Further artists and styles: Realism, Expressionism, Secession, Hagenbund, woodcut
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