ALFONS SCHNEGG (Mühlau 1895 - 1932 Innsbruck) Study Christ and Devil, 1922 charcoal/paper 27 x 17.5 cm monogrammed ASM dated 1922 ESTIMATE € 200 - € 300 STARTING PRICE € 200 Alfons (also Alphons) was an Austrian painter of the late Impressionist period. Schnegg attended the Innsbruck Trade School, worked at the Tyrolean Glass Painting Institute in Wilten, and from 1914 studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. From 1915 to 1918, Schnegg served on the Southern Front. He settled in Mühlau in 1918, and together with Ernst Nepo, Rudolf Lehnert, Herbert Gurschner, and Sidonius von Schrom, he formed the Mühlau Circle. In 1925, Schnegg co-founded the artists' association "Waage." In 1929, he spent four months in Dalmatia and Bosnia, and in 1930, he visited Italy. Schnegg created, above all, oil paintings, woodcuts, and murals (including the war memorial in Fiss, Tyrol). Further Artists and Terms: Ernst Nepo, Wilhelm Nicolaus Prachensky, Leo Sebastian Huemer, Rudolf Lehnert, Franz Santifaller, Hans Andre, Giorgio de Chirico, Lovis Corinth, Franz Defregger, Janosch, Hans Dressler, Helene Funke, Edgar Jené, Edmund Kalb, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Alfred Kubin, Hans Makart, Franz Marc, Alfons Mucha, Markus Oehlen, Sergius Pauser, Daniel Spoeri, Hito Steyerl. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.