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TRUDE WAEHNER* (Vienna 1900 - 1979 Vienna)
Harbour
gouache/paper, 48,2 x 68,5 cm
signed T. Schmidl-Waehner

ESTIMATE °€ 600 - 800
STARTING PRICE °€ 600

Austrian painter of the 20th century. Studied at the Academy of Music for two years, then at the Vienna School of Art at Oskar Strnad and Josef Frank. From 1928 at the recommendation of Walter Gropius and mediation by Josef Frank at the Bauhaus in Dessau in the class of Paul Klee. Visited courses from Wassily Kandinsky. Went to Berlin in 1932, contact with Bruno Cassirer and contact with Bert Brecht, Otto Dix, Klaus and Erika Mann. In 1933 she went back to Vienna and fled to Switzerland, France, England to the USA after the connection in 1938. Her studio in Buchfeldgasse in Vienna was taken over by Heimito von Doderer, Albert Paris Gütersloh lived there as a sub-tenant. Always critical of Anti-Semitism and fascism, her second husband was Jewish origin. In the United States, she gave art lessons at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and at the Moravian Seminary and College for Women in Pennsylvania. After the war she lived in Vienna, South of France (Dieulefit) and Venice. 1937 Personnel in the Würthle gallery, member of the Austrian Werkbund. Began to make woodcuts more in Venice, many portraits and portraits of musicians, cellists, composers and conductors.

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