Auction House

Auction: Modern Art

22. June 2023, 2:00 pm

Object overview
Object

4015

Albin Egger-Lienz

(Stribach bei Lienz 1868 - 1926 St. Justina bei Bozen)

„The second peasant from "Totentanz"“
c. 1920
pastel on painting cardboard; framed
46 x 42.5 cm
signed on the upper right: A. Egger-Lienz
inscribed on the upper left: "Aus Totentanz von Anno 9"

Provenance

collection Franz Hauer;
Maria and Heinrich Steffan, Scharnitz;
since then family property, private property, Vorarlberg

Literature

Wilfried Kirschl, Albin Egger Lienz. Das Gesamtwerk, vol. II, Vienna 1996, no. Z 601, p. 629, without ill. (there: "Technik und Maße unbekannt")

Handwritten confirmation by Leopold Hauer, Vienna, 20 April 1941, photocopy is enclosed: "Ich bestätige hiermit, daß umstehendes Bild 'Alt Männerkopf' ein Originalwerk des Malers A. Egger-Lienz ist und aus der Sammlung meines Vaters Franz Hauer stammt. (Katalog No 305) / Wien, 20.IV.41 / Leopold Hauer"
We are grateful to Dr. Carl Kraus and Dipl.-Vw. Erich Mair for the confirmation on the basis of photographs as well as for their kind assistance with the cataloguing process.

Estimate: € 35.000 - 70.000
Result: € 64.000 (incl. fees)
Auction is closed.