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RUDOLF KONOPA (Vienna 1864 - 1936 Scheibbs): Portrait of a man, 1912

RUDOLF KONOPA (Vienna 1864 - 1936 Scheibbs): Portrait of a man, 1912

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RUDOLF KONOPA (Vienna 1864 - 1936 Scheibbs): Portrait of a man, 1912
RUDOLF KONOPA (Vienna 1864 - 1936 Scheibbs)
Portrait of a man, 1912
oil/canvas, 61 x 49,3 cm
signed R. Konopa, dated 1912

ESTIMATE °€ 100 - 200
STARTING PRICE °€ 100

Rudolf Konopa was an Austrian artist. He created genre scenes, landscapes, still lifes, portraits and interiors, influenced by impressionism, both in oil and watercolor. Konopa was initially apprenticed to an industrial painter at the age of fourteen and, from 1881, studied painting at the Vienna Academy with Rudolf Karl Huber and Joseph Matthias von Trenkwald, whose guest student he was until 1882. Study trips took Konopa to France, Italy and England. In Paris, he was in contact with Eugen Jettel and in Fiesole with Arnold Böcklin. From 1890 to 1900, Konopa was a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus, from 1900 to 1907 he was a founding member of the Hagenbund, He then returned to the Vienna Künstlerhaus. In 1893 he took part in the World's Fair in Chicago, in 1900 in the World's Fair in Paris, and in 1904 in the World's Fair in St. Louis. In 1923 Konopa took part in a collective in the Vienna Künstlerhaus, which organized a memorial exhibition for him in 1938. During the First World War, Konopa was known in Russia and Italy as a war painter for the k.u.k. Kriegspressequartier (KPQ, Imperial and Royal War Press Office). His works are included in the Belvedere,the Albertina, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna, Museum der Stadt Wien/Wien Museum and in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Honours, prizes (selection): 1894 Kenyon Travel Scholarship, 1893 Large Gold Medal at the Chicago World's Fair, 1899 Small Gold State Medal, 1900 Mention honorable, Paris, 1923 Karl Ludwig Promotion Prize.

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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