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WILHELM KAUFMANN* (Vienna 1895 - 1975 Vienna)
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oil/board, 70 x 56,5 cm
signed Wilhelm Kaufmann

ESTIMATE € 2000 - 4000
STARTING PRICE € 2000

The Austrian painter Wilhelm Kaufmann grew up in the district movement "Wandervogel" and visited the Vienna School of Art (now Academy for Applied Art) after his Matura. After studying painting, he became an employee of Anton Faistauer in 1923 in the design of the frescoes in the Morzger parish church. He was a member of the Salzburg "Special Association of Austrian Artists" and worked with Anton Kolig and Robin Christian Andersen in 1926 to produce the gobelins for the Salzburg Festival House. Between 1938 and 1945 he lived in "inner emigration", mostly in Pinzgau, and guarded the works of the Jewish painter Helene von Taussig. After the war, he took part in the cultural reconstruction. He visited England, where he was known as a portraitist before World War II. In 1952 he became an art teacher at the Westtown School in Pennsylvania, USA. In 1953 and 1957 he lived in Canada as a teacher and free painter. In several trips to the jungle of Lambaréné, Gabun, merchant Albert Schweitzer met. In numerous wall paintings, Kaufmann draws a picture-book clear narrative style. His portraits are mostly pastos-coloristic. His central theme was always the search for harmony between nature and human civilization. In the nineties he created numerous color lithographs of his oil paintings with Martin Gredler in the printing workshop of the Slavi Soucek Foundation in the Trakl House, Salzburg. From 1995 to 1998 he showed these in the gallery "1 Blick. Kunst im Vorhaus" (Hallein) in nine individual exhibitions. As a result of a trip he made around 1980, the twinning of the city of Salzburg with Singida in Tanzania was established in 1984 (Wilhelm Kaufmann Prize for Development Cooperation).

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