Auction House

Auction: Modern Art

05. December 2017, 6:00 pm

Object overview
Object

0290

Alexander Rothaug

(Wien 1870 - 1946 Wien)

„Nymphenraub“
1920-30
oil on panel
49,5 × 89 cm
signed rechts oben: Alexander Rothaug
label of the Hugo Arnot gallery Vienna on the reverse
inscribed on a label on the reverse

Provenance

private property, Austria;
Auktionshaus im Kinsky, 23. 06. 2009, no. 62;
private property, Europe

Estimate: € 25.000 - 50.000
Result: € 83.200 (incl. fees)

Alexander Rothaug has been born into a family of painters and sculptors. Their first painting lessons got Alexander and his brother Leopold from their father. After completing his training in sculpture he changed to the Wiener Akademie in 1885 to lern painting. Leopold Carl Müller has been one of his teachers at the Akedemie.
In 1892 he moved to Munich, where he worked as an illustrator. Study trips brought him to Italy, Spain and Dalamtia. He started to exhibit in the regular exhibtions of the Wiener Künstlerhaus in 1909. He became also a member of the ‚Genossenschaft bildender Künstler Wiens‘ in 1910.
As a painter of the German and ancient mythological world he early deserved recognition for his pathos and the heroic gestures of his figures. Until his late years he remain at his personal unique style.
The painting ‚Nymphenraub‘ shows the preference of the painter to dipict the human body in a dramatic movement. Strong light-dark contrasts and the brilliance of colours are characteristics of this composition. (CMG)