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GEORG EHRLICH* (Vienna 1897 - 1966 Lucerne)

The shy one, c. 1955
indian ink/paper 29,5 x 20,6 cm

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 250 - 350
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 250

Austrian painter and sculptor of the 20th century. Main representative of Expressionism. Representative of exile art. Came from a Jewish family. From 1913 to 1914, he studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts with Anton von Kenner and Oskar Strnad. 1920 to 1922, in Munich and until 1924 in Berlin. Contract with Paul Cassirer, acquaintance with Oskar Kokoschka, Paul Klee and Max Beckmann. In Vienna, his main patrons were Hans Tietze and Erika Tietze-Conrat. From 1925 to 1928, member of the artists' association Hagenbund. From 1932, with his wife part of the Zinkenbach painters' colony on Lake Wolfgang, as were Ferdinand Kitt, Josed Dobrowsky, Ernst Huber, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Oskar Laske, Georg Merkel, Louise Merkel-Romee, Lisel Salzer and others. 1937 Emigration to England. From 1947 to 1949, he taught in the USA. Married to the artist Bettina Ehrlich-Bauer. Created portraits, landscapes, bronze sculptures and left behind a significant graphic and drawing oeuvre. His figure ideal was influenced by George Minne and Wilhelm Lehmbruck. He was also active in illustrations of literature and poetry, for instance, he issustrated the poem "Prayer to go to Paradise with the donkeys" by Francis Jammes. Further artists and styles: Realism, New Objectivity, Ink, Lithography, Portrait, Landscape, Etching, Expressionism, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Franz Barwig der Ältere, Wander Bertoni, Max Domenig, Adolf Frohner, Anton Hanak, Wolfgang Hutter, Erika Giovanna Klien, Gustav Klimt, Hans Knesl, Oskar Kokoschka, Bertold Löffler, Dorit Margreiter, Koloman Moser, Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill
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