ERNST HUBER* (Vienna 1895 - 1960 Vienna) Sorrento, 1925 indian ink/paper 47 x 31,5 cm signed E. Huber, dated 1925 inscribed Sorrento ESTIMATE °€ 300 - € 500 STARTING PRICE € 300 Ernst Huber, Austrian graphic artist and landscape painter, trained as a typesetter. The self-taught artist was able to celebrate his first successes in 1919, when Josef Hoffmann saw his work in an exhibition in the Palmenhaus. Hoffmann brought Huber into the group of artists at the art show through the mediation of the sculptor Gustinus Ambrosi. Here he came into contact with the already established artists Herbert Boeckl, Anton Faistauer, Oskar Kokoschka, Anton Kolig and Franz Wiegele. In 1920 Huber became a member of the Sonderbund and in 1932 of the Vienna Secession. Huber was a member of the Zinkenbacker painters' colony and maintained close friendships with Ferdinand Kitt, Franz Zülow, Josef Dobrowsky, Georg Ehrlich and Georg Merkel. Since the beginning of the 1920s, Ernst Huber's circle of friends included Georg Merkel, Ferdinand Kitt, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel and Sergius Pauser. Landscapes dominate his oeuvre, especially from Lower Austria, Upper Austria and the Salzkammergut in his early work. Huber painted primarily in oil and watercolour, but he also created reverse glass and tile paintings as well as numerous book illustrations. From 1932 he regularly attended the Venice Biennale. In 1935 he received the Austrian State Prize for Watercolour and in 1937 the Honorary Prize of the City of Vienna. He was awarded the title of professor in 1949, followed in 1952 by the honorary prize for painting at the Salzburg Art Association. The exposure to the paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder led Huber to have a particular preference for multi-figured scenes. Further artists and styles: Landscape painting, lithography, expressionism, Secession, Franz Kitt, Franz von Zülow, Georg Merkel, Josef Dobrowsky, Herbert Boeckl, Josef Hoffmann 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.