ALBERT JANESCH | SELF PORTRAIT WITH THE ARTIST'S WIFE
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January 31, 04:23 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
ALBERT JANESCH
Austrian
1889 - 1973
SELF PORTRAIT WITH THE ARTIST'S WIFE
signed ALBERT JANESCH (lower right); inscribed and dated MEIN SELBSTBILDNIS IM 43./ LEBENSJAHR/ MIT MEINEM BRAVEN/ WEIBE MARIA ANTAONIA./ WEIN IM JAHRE 1933. (upper right)
oil on canvas
40⅜ by 36⅝ in.
102.6 by 93 cm
Private Collection, Austria
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Vienna, Künstlerhaus, 1933
Venice, XIX Esposizione Biennale Internaziole d'Arte, May-October, 1934, no. 341
Munich, Haus de Deutschen Kunst, Große deutsche kunstausstellung, 1937
A native of Vienna, Albert Janesch exhibited widely throughout his home country and experienced great success during his lifetime. The artist’s oeuvre includes portraits, landscapes and still lifes. He trained at the Graphic Arts Teaching and Research Institute and the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Awards granted, among many, include the Prix de Rome (1912), Prize of the City of Vienna (1924, 1929, and 1937) and the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art (1954). He served as a war artist working in Belgrade, Trieste, and on the Turkish front during World War I — he later served in France, Russia and Greece during World War II. Many of his military paintings from the period are located in the Museum of Military History in Vienna.