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WILHELM THÖNY (Graz 1888 - 1949 New York)

Man with a tailcoat
indian ink/paper 26,8 x 20,9 cm
signed W. Thöny

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 1400 - 3000
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 1400

Wilhelm Thöny was an Austrian painter, graphic artist, etcher and illustrator of the 20th century, and an important representative of Austrian modernism. From 1908 to 1912, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts with Angelo Jank and Gabriel von Hackl. He also trained in singing and piano playing. Co-founder of the Munich Secession, lifelong acquaintance with Alfred Kubin. As a one-year volunteer in World War I, created portrait studies and illustrations as a regimental painter. 1923 Co-founder of the Graz Secession. 1925 Married Thea Herrmann-Trautner, daughter of the American painter Frank S. Herrmann, sister of the painter and caricaturist Eva Herrmann. 1929 first stay in Paris, lived in Paris from 1931 to 1938. 1938 emigration with his Jewish wife to New York. In 1948, destruction of most of his works by fire in a stock in New York. Diverse themes and techniques, landscapes and especially cityscapes of large cities such as Paris and New York. Also the genre scenes show involvement with Advard Munch and August Macke. Further artists and styles: Abstraction, Expressionism, Impressionism, Cityscape, Portrait, Paul Cézanne, Wols, Henri Michaux, Georges Mathieu, Otto Herbert Hajek, Franz Sedlacek, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Herbert Boeckl, Oskar Kokoschka, Alfons Walde, Greta Freist, Rudolf Wacker, Albin Egger-Lienz
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