FERDINAND STRANSKY* (Viehofen near St. Pölten 1904 - 1981 Vienna) Standing female nude, 1955 pencil/paper 50 x 33.8 cm signed Stransky, dated 55 dedicated to my friend Heinz ESTIMATE °€ 60 - € 100 STARTING PRICE € 60 Ferdinand Stransky was an Austrian painter of the 20th century. Ferdinand Stransky attended the restoration school at the Vienna Academy from 1919 to 1923 and studied with Serafin Maurer, who, however, didn't think much of his student's enthusiasm for Oskar Kokoschka. From then on, Stransky trained himself as a painter. After his studies, he worked as a restorer, but also sold his own work. On the recommendation of the sculptor Georg Ehrlich, he was accepted into the Hagenbund in 1937. After the war he became a member of the Secession and was one of the founders of the artist group "Der Kreis". He earned his living as a restorer for the St. Lucas Gallery, but also found increasing recognition as an independent painter. Supported by the art historians Otto Benesch, Fritz Novotny and Hans Aurenhammer, he took part in the biennials in São Paulo and Tokyo and received the Theodor Körner Prize in 1958 and the Art Prize of the State of Lower Austria in 1964. Further artists and styles: Expressionism, oil painting, ink, watercolour, gouache, abstraction, realism, landscape, portrait, nude, Oskar Kokoschka, Anton Faistauer, Herbert Boeckl, Carry Hauser 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.