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FRANZ VON ZÜLOW* (Vienna 1883 - 1963 Vienna)

Mary`s colored dress, 1922
mixed media/paper 38,6 x 28,9 cm
dated 10.V.22

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 150 - 300
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 150

Austrian painter and graphic artist of the 20th century. Representative of the Classical Modernism. Studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts from 1903 to 1906 under Felician Myrbach and Carl Otto Czeschka. Explored graphic techniques, developed his own paper-cutting stencil technique in 1907. Participates in the 1908 art show organized by Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann. Commissioned by Josef Hofmann to design wallpaper for a children's room in the Palais Stoclet. From 1909 in Haugsdorf, where his mother and sister lived. From 1915, he served in the Austro-Hungarian army, returned from Italy in 1919 where he had been a POW. 1920 to 1922, teacher at the Schleiß ceramic workshops in Gmunden. From 1922, he commuted between Vienna and Upper Austria. Arts and crafts works and illustrations for the Wiener Werkstätte, among others. From the 1920s also oil paintings, especially landscapes. Belonged to the Zinkenbach painters' colony in the interwar period, like Ferdinand Kitt, Josef Dobrowsky, Ernst Huber, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Oskar Laske, Georg Merkel, Louise Merkel-Romee and Georg Ehrlich. In 1942, he was prohibited from painting. 1945 Member of the Vienna Secession and the Linz Artists' Association MAERZ. From 1949, teacher at the School of Arts and Crafts in Linz and from 1955 president of the Mühlviertler Künstlergilde. Influenced by the decorative and flat ornamental art of Jugendstil and folk art. Created mainly children's books, posters, calendar graphics, murals, wallpaper, carpets, fabrics. But also prints, watercolors, drawing and oil paintings with landscapes, rural and religious motifs, fairy-tale and fantastic scenes.Further artists and styles: Art Nouveau, New Objectivity, Expressionism, Realism, Landscape, Still Life, Symbolism, Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, Josef Hoffmann, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Matthias Herrmann, Lois Pregartbauer, Rudolf von Alt, Oskar Kokoschka, Albin Egger-Lienz, Koloman Moser, Richard Gerstl, Broncia Koller-Pinell, Anton Mahringer, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Karl Revy, Egon Schiele, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Johann Georg Platzer, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Friedrich von Amerling, Otto Wagner, Eduard Ameseder, Carl O’Lynch of Town, Max Domenig, Robin Christian Andersen, Paul Kassecker, Hans Knesl, Heinz Leinfellner, Rudolf Hausner, Joannis Avramidis, Maximilian Melcher, Alfred Hrdlicka, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Arik Brauer, Wolfgang Hollegha, Anton Lehmden, Josef Mikl, Ernst Fuchs, Armin Pramstaller, Cornelius Kolig, Herbert Boeckl, Josef Dobrowsky, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Franz Barwig der Ältere, Wander Bertoni, Max Domenig, Adolf Frohner, Anton Hanak, Matthias Herrmann, Wolfgang Hutter, Erika Giovanna Klien, Hans Knesl, Bertold Löffler, Dorit Margreiter, Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill, Wiener Werkstätte, Mela Köhler, Carl Otto Czeschka, Dagobert Peche, Bertold Löffler, Fritzi Löw, Mathilde Flögl, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Franz von Zülow, Anton Faistauer, Rudolf von Larisch, Max Kurzweil.
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