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HANS BREN* (Vienna 1900 - 1974 Vienna)

Imaginary swamp landscape
oil/board 58 x 68,8 cm
verso estate stamp Hans Bren and confirmation of authenticity of the artist's grandson and the inscription "Imaginäre Sumpflandschaft" um 1960

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 300 - 600
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 300

Hans Bren was an Austrian visual artist. As a painter, he primarily created landscapes and figure paintings with strong colors, and after 1945 also abstractions. Furthermore, numerous pen drawings and woodcuts in an enigmatic, bizarre style have survived. From 1922 to 1926, Bren studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts with Franz Cizek, Viktor Schufinsky, Adolf Böhm, Erich Mallina and Bertold Löffler. He then worked as an official in the Vienna city administration, more precisely in the city treasury. Bren was represented in the Hagenbund for the first time in 1925 and was a member from 1929 to 1938. After 1947 he rarely exhibited and created illustrations for magazines and newspapers. In 2001 there was a solo exhibition in the Anton Hanak Museum in Langenzersdorf, In 2002, Bren received a solo exhibition at the Vienna-Penzing District Museum. Hans Bren was awarded the Eitelberger Prize from the Vienna School of Applied Arts. Further artists and styles: Graphic art, surrealism, fantastic realism, landscape, abstraction, Georg Ehrlich, Theodor Alescha, Karl Hauk, Alois Heidel, Carl Buchheister, Friedrich Aduatz, Eduard Ameseder, Robin Christian Andersen, Franz Barwig the Elder, Leopold Blauensteiner, Hans Bren, Georg Ehrlich, Carl Fahringer, Josef Floch, Beni Ferenczy, Tibor Gergely, Gustav Gurschner, Felix Albrecht Harta, Karl Hauk, Carry Hauser, Wilhelm Hejda, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Rudolf Junk, Maximilian Kahrer, Eduard Kasparides, Wilhelm Kaufmann, Oskar Laske, Heinrich Lefler, Georg Mayer-Marton, Karl Mediz, Georg Merkel, Carl O'Lynch of Town, Ernst Paar, Anton Peschkam Robert Philippi, Michael Powolny, Heribert Potuznik, Lois Pregartbauer, Maximilian reinitz, Heinrich Revy, Albert Reuss, Otto Rudolf Schatz, Fritz Schwarz-Waldegg, Maximilian Suppantschitsch, Eduard Thöny, Viktor Tischler, Georg Philipp Wörlen, Bettina Ehrlich, Anna Lesznai, Louise Merkel-Romée, Frieda Salvendy, Lilly Steiner
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