EDGAR JENÉ* (Saarbrücken 1904 - 1984 La Chapelle-Saint-André) Big moss owl acrylic/wood 89.2 x 35.2 cm verso titled Big moss owl ESTIMATE € 400 - € 800 STARTING PRICE € 400 Edgar Jené was a German-French artist. From 1922 and 1924, EJené studied at the Academy in Munich and then in Paris. There he was introduced to the surrealists around André Breton. He travelled to Italy and Switzerland before he moved to Austria in 1935 as a "degenerate" artist, where he lived until 1950. Jené was founder of a surrealist movement in the post-war era in Vienna, which became the basis for the art of the "phantastic realists". In his studio they recieved authentic accounts about the paintings of the surrealists and got crucial impulses even though they took different paths later on. Jené was close friends with the poet Paul Celan. In 1950ß, Jené moved back to France where he died in 1984. Further artists and styles: Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Anton Lehmden, Wolfang Hutter, Rudolf Hausner, Surrealism, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Wolfgang Paalen, Alfred Kubin, Francis Picabia, Giorgio de Chirico, Roberto Matta, Man Ray 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.