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FRITZ SCHWARZ-WALDEGG (Vienna 1889 - 1942 extermination site of Maly Trostenets)

Mary Moldauer in a hat, 1921
mixed media/paper 50,9 x 36,5 cm
signed Fritz Schwarz-Waldegg, dated 21

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 500 - 800
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 500

At the age of 17, the Austrian painter Fritz Schwarz-Waldegg (Friedrich Schwarz) attended David Kohn's painting school, and he converted to Catholicism. He received his further training at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Chrtisn Griepenkerl and Rudolf Bacher. He met Egon Schile and Oskar Kokoschka early on. Schwarz-Waldegg was in the Vienna Hagenbund. Schwarz-Waldegg was its president from 1925 to 1927. Despite his conversion and his participation in the war with the Hoch- und Deutschmeister regiment, he was forbidden from any artistic activity after the "Anschluss", Austria's 1938 annexation to Germany. He had to vacate his studio, many of his works have since been lost. In August 1942, Schwarz-Waldegg was taken from his sister's apartment, where he had been staying, and taken to an assembly camp. He was murdered in the Maly Trostenets or Sobibor extermination camp. In addition to Max van Dam from Amsterdam, who painted portraits of SS men, and Alfred Friedberg from Frankfurt, who painted still lifes and flower arrangements, Schwarz-Waldegg was forced to do artistic work in the camp. Schwarz-Waldegg is one of the most important representatives and pioneers of Austrian Expressionism after 1918. He initially worked with a tonality in which brown and gray tones dominated. After the First World War, his palette brightened and works were created that are reminiscent of a modified Cubism. Around 1923, he moved on to Expressionism. He mainly painted portraits, figural compositions and landscapes. Works are located in the Museum of Military History (Vienna), in the Museum der Stadt Wien (Museum of the City of Vienna, Wien Museum), in Österreichische Galerie Belvedere (Vienna) and in the Albertina (Vienna). Further artists and styles: Expressionism, landscape, portrait, still life, watercolour, gouache, Johann Georg Platzer, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Friedrich von Amerling, Otto Wagner, Eduard Ameseder, Carl O'Lynch of Town, Richard Gerstl, Max Domenig, Robin Christian Andersen, Egon Schiele, Paul Kassecker, Hans Kneslm 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, Meina Schellander, Franz West, Gottfried Helnwein, Manfred Deix, Heimo Zobernig, Gunter Damisch, Daniel Richter, Monica Bonvicini, dorit Margreiter, Herbert Boeckl, Josef Dobrowsky, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Friedrich Aduatz, Eduard Ameseder, Robin Christian Andersen, Franz Barwig der Ältere, Leopold Blauensteiner, Hans Bren, Georg Ehrlich, Carl Fahringer, Josef Floch, Beni Ferenczy, Tibor Gergely, Gustav Gurschner, Felix Albrecht Harta, Karl Hauk, Carry Hauser, Wilhelm Hejda, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Rudolf Junk, Maximilian Kahrer, Eduard Kasparides, Wilhelm Kaufmann, Oskar Laske, Heinrich Lefler, Georg Mayer-Marton, Karl Mediz, Georg Merkel, Carl O’Lynch of Town, Ernst Paar, Anton Peschkam Robert Philippi, Michael Powolny, Heribert Potuznik, Lois Pregartbauer, Maximilian Reinitz, Heinrich Revy, Albert Reuss, Otto Rudolf Schatz, Fritz Schwarz-Waldegg, Maximilian Suppantschitsch, Eduard Thöny, Viktor Tischler, Georg Philipp Wörlen, Bettina Ehrlich, Anna Lesznai, Louise Merkel-Romée, Frieda Salvendy, Lilly Steiner
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