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FRANZ VON ZUELOW* (Vienna 1883 - 1963 Vienna)
Refectory, 1922
mixed media/paper, 20 x 30 cm
signed FvZuelow, dated 1922

ESTIMATE °€ 600 - 1200
STARTING PRICE °€ 600

Franz Zülow attended the Graphic Teaching and Research Institute in 1901 and 1902 and also enrolled briefly at the Academy of Fine Arts before studying at the Vienna School of Applied Arts from 1903 to 1906. From an early age, Zülow experimented intensively with graphic techniques and in 1907 developed, among other things, the paper cutting stencil technique, which he also patented. From 1908 on, he was a member of the Klimt Group. In 1909 he moved to Haugsdorf, where his mother and sister lived. In 1912, a scholarship enabled him to undertake an extensive study trip through Western Europe. From 1915 to 1919 he did military service and was taken prisoner by the Italians. Between 1920 and 1922 he worked as a teacher at the Schleiss ceramic workshops in Gmunden. From 1922 he lived alternately in Vienna and Upper Austria and undertook several trips abroad. His decorative arts and illustrative works, which were often created for the Wiener Werkstätte, were characterized by the decorative verve of the Secession. From the 1920s he created the first oil paintings, which, like his paste-the-wall paintings and watercolors, mainly show landscapes. In the years between 1928 and 1935 he was awarded the Austrian State Prize several times, and in 1942 he was forbidden to paint by the Nazi regime. From 1933 to 1939 and from 1945 on, he belonged to the Vienna Secession and was also a member of the Linz Artists' Association Maerz. From 1949 he taught at the School of Applied Arts in Linz and from 1955 he was President of the Mühlviertler Artists' Guild. During this period he received numerous public commissions for murals and mosaics. Based on photos from 1915, Franz Zülow drew and painted these snapshots from the infirmary at Vienna's Ostbahnhof in 1922. Both Zülow's drawings and the photographic templates come from the estate of the head of the station, Dr. Dietrich Moldauer. The historical photo material to which Zülow refers in his drawings can also be found in an elaborately made brochure with the title: "Sick station with night's rest at the Ostbahnhof in Vienna of the Patriotic Aid Association of the Red Cross for Lower Austria. Report on activities from the beginning of the war to September 1915". This station in the k.u.k. The premises of the Vienna Ostbahnhof made available to the State Railway Administration were opened shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, on August 20, 1914. It had the purpose of "providing accommodation, meals and medical assistance to sick, wounded and convalescent officers and crew members passing through Vienna as a transit station". Its director, the art-loving Dr. Dietrich Moldauer, k.u.k. Lieutenant a. D., first delegate of the Red Cross Patriotic Aid Association in Lower Austria. To date, however, it is unclear how this order came about and what the intentions of the client, Dr. Moldovans associated with it. Franz Zülow knows only too well the horrors of the First World War from his own painful experience, after all he fought as a soldier between 1915 and 1918 in Hungary, Albania and Italy, where he was taken prisoner of war by the Italians on July 12, 1918 and only released from there on August 22, 1918. August 1919 can return. Zülow chooses the templates for his drawings from photos by Charles Skolik, which are also shown in the brochure mentioned above.

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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 °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographs 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium.
The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.

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