FERDINAND MICHL (Prague 1877 - 1951 Vienna) Rouge et noir etching/paper 11 x 8,6 cm signed F. Michl, numbered 23/100 inscribed in plate, "Erinnerung an das Ballfest "Rouge et Noir?"" Hagenbund and Vienna civic theatre, 1910." signed in plate F. Michl ESTIMATE °€ 150 - € 300 STARTING PRICE € 150 Ferdinand Michl was a Czechoslovak-Austrian painter and graphic artist who was active primarily around the turn of the century and in the interwar period. He studied at the Prague Academy with Maximilian Pirner and Franz Thiele and in Munich with Ludwig Herterich. After extensive study trips through Italy, Belgium, Holland and Germany, he lived in Paris for five years and settled in Vienna in 1909. From 1905 to 1922, he was a member of the Hagenbund and from 1924 a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus. A trip through Manchuria, China, India and Japan had a lasting impact on his work. He created numerous depictions with landscape motifs from Asia but also figural scenes from markets and Asian traditions. Further artists and styles: Franz Schubert, Gustav Mahler, Portrait, Asia, woodcut, Louis Pregartbauer, Georg Mayer-Marton, Max Oppenheimer, Hans Ranzoni, Alfred Keller, Rudolf Junk, Heinrich Lefler, Joseph Urban 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.