ANTON FAISTAUER (St. Martin near Lofer 1887 - 1930 Vienna) Design for a glass work indian ink/paper 26 x 19 cm estate stamp ESTIMATE € 200 - € 400 STARTING PRICE € 200 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 organised 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. 1915 to 1919 military service, became an Italian prisoner of war. 1920 to 1922 teacher at the ceramic workshops Schleiß 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, 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 Art Nouveau and folk art. Created mainly children's books, posters, calendar graphics, murals, wallpaper, carpets, fabrics. But also prints, watercolours, drawing and oil paintings with landscapes, rural and religious motifs, fairy-tale and fantastic scenes. ts, fabrics. But also prints, watercolours, drawing and oil paintings with landscapes, rural and religious motifs, fairy-tale and fantastic scenes. Further artists and styles: 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, Dorit Margreiter, Herbert Boeckl, Josef Dobrowsky, Albert Paris Gütersloh, landscape, still life, cityscapes, mountains, portraits, oil painting. 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.