ALOIS HEIDEL* (Vienna 1915 - 1990 Vienna) Goat, 1955 woodcut/paper 25,8 x 17,9 cm signed A. Heidel, dated 1955 verso pencil sketches of a crane ESTIMATE °€ 60 - € 100 STARTING PRICE € 60 Alois Heidel was an Austrian sculptor from the 20th century. After an apprenticeship as a belter and chaser, he began studying at the Munich Art Academy in 1943. From 1946 to 1953 he studied sculpture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna with Fritz Wotruba. 1953 -1969 Heidel created numerous sculptures for the city of Vienna (Viennese municipal buildings). Heidel initially created naturalistic, formally simplified sculptures (above all animal motifs) and in the course of his work in dealing with a wide variety of materials such as artificial stone, metal or brick, increasingly advanced into areas of abstraction and non-representational sculpture. From 1975 Heidel worked as a restorer at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Heidel was a member of the Secession and received the City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts for sculpture in 1962. Further artists and styles: Kinetism, Realism, Cubism, Animal, Abstraction, Henry Moore, Graphics, Lithography 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.