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HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk): At Erdberg, 1998

HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk): At Erdberg, 1998

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HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk): At Erdberg, 1998
HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk)
At Erdberg, 1998
watercolor and indian ink/paper, 29,6 x 20,3 cm
signed Serient, dated 1998
entitled in Erdberg, 1030 Wien, verso, signed Serient

ESTIMATE °€ 200 - 400
STARTING PRICE °€ 200

Austrian artist of the 20th century. Lives and works in Vienna and southern Burgenland. Completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in Vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the Wiener Arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and raveled through Europe by car stop. He experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the ORF. From the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, social and environmental themes in his work. Works in old master technique like the representatives of Magic Realism and the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner and Wolfgang Hutter. Interest in works by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Breughel. Grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements as in Surrealism. Themes and motifs always related to the present, social criticism and pointing out environmental destruction. Also comic and humorous elements as in the depictions of the vampire. Luminosity of colors by mixing the pigments, oil paints and egg tempera. 2005 and 2015 exhibitions at the Landesgalerie Burgenland in Eisenstadt.

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.

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