FRANZ LERCH* (Vienna 1895 - 1977 New York) Beach scene pencil/paper 35,5 x 43 cm handwritten notes by the artist; verso sketch of two figures ESTIMATE € 100 - € 200 STARTING PRICE € 100 Franz Lerch was born in Vienna in 1895. First he worked in an administration office of a building firm and then he served as a soldier in the First World War. In 1918 he began to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna at the classes of Alois Delug, Josef Jungwirth and Karl Sterrer. In 1927 Lerch became a member of the artists association Hagenbund and also of the Viennese Secession. In 1933 he married Steffi Kraus and travelled with her to Sicily. In the 1930s he also made study trips to Paris and the Netherlands. Because of the Jewish background of his wife they had to emigrate during the Nazi regime, they fled to Great Britain and then to the USA. Before the departure he destroyed a large part of his works. In New York Lerch worked for the design company Printex and painted only in his leisure time. Franz Lerch died in 1977 in New York. Further artists and styles: New Objectivity, Hagenbund, Secession, nude, portrait, Alois Delug, Josef Jungwirth, Karl Sterrer, Carl Hofer, magical realism, Edvard Munch 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.