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RUDOLF SIECK* (Rosenheim 1877 - 1957 Munich)
Chapel in landscape, 1912
color etching/paper, 17,6 x 25,9 cm
signed Rudolf Sieck and signed and dated in the plate Rud. Sieck 1912

ESTIMATE °€ 60 - 100
STARTING PRICE °€ 60

Painter, graphic artist, porcelain painter and illustrator - the main subject is the impressionistically painted Chiemgau landscape. From 1897 attended the Munich School of Applied Arts under E.Zimmermann, then studied independently. Study trips through Greece, France and Italy, living in Prien am Chiemsee since 1912. 1905-1913 member of the Hagenbund, founding member of the German artist group “Die Welle” and member of the Munich Secession. Illustrations for the satirical art magazines “Simplicissimus” and “Die Jugend” and also created designs for the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory. Represented at the 14th Venice Biennale in 1924 with the oil painting “Tivoli”. Friendship with Hermann Hesse. 1958 Memorial exhibition in the Rosenheim Municipal Museum. Works include Albertina, Neue Pinakothek Munich, municipal collections of Darmstadt, Konstanz and Rosenheim. Honors, prizes (selection): 1912 Silver State Medal in Bautzen, 1921 Gold Medal of the Hessian State, 1925 Professor title from the State of Bavaria, 1953 Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Naming of a street in Prien/Chiemsee.

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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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