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39. item
FRIEDRICH KÖNIG (Vienna 1857 - 1941 Vienna): Autumn forrest, around 1890
FRIEDRICH KÖNIG (Vienna 1857 - 1941 Vienna)Autumn forrest, around 1890oil/canvas, 32,3 x 26,5 cmverso label Friedrich König, Werk-Nr.: 24ESTIMATE € 800 - 1200STARTING PRICE € 800Friedrich König was an Austrian artist and illustrator. After attending the Vienna School of Applied Arts for two years, he was a student of Christian Griepenkerl at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from 1878 to 1883, then he went abroad. After his return to Vienna, he worked there as an illustrator for the 24-volume monumental work "Die österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild" (The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Words and Images, Verlag der k. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1885 - 1902). His focus was the decorative sector. There are only a few of his landscapes and monumental paintings in oil. König was initially a member of the Haagengesellschaft and in 1897 a founding member of the Secession, In 1939 he became a member of the Künstlerhaus. In 1943, the latter hosted an exhibition in his memory.PLEASE NOTE: 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."