GUSTAV HESSING* (Chernivtsi 1909 - 1981 Vienna) Trees, 1962 watercolour/paper 48,5 x 65 cm signed G. Hessing ESTIMATE € 500 - € 1000 STARTING PRICE € 500 Austrian painter of the 20th century. Was born in Chernivtsi/Bucovina, studied from 1926 to 1931 at the Academy of Fine Arts with Ferdinand Andri and Karl Fahringer. In 1946 co-founder of the artist group Der Kreis, from 1958 member of the Vienna Secession. Works of the interwar period stylistically to Expressionism, influences of Richard Gerstl and Edvard Munch. From the 1940s, he turned to representational abstraction and later to the influences of Cubism and Surrealism, in the circle of Edgar Jené. Painted mainly portraits, landscapes and still lifes. Influenced by Paul Cézanne, in his late work he dealt with Tachism. 1979 exhibition at the Austrian Gallery Belvedere. Further artists and styles: Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Lois Pregartbauer, Albin Egger-Lienz, Oskar Kokoschka, Broncia Koller-Pinell, Anton Mahringer, Egon Schiele, Eduard Ameseder, Emil Beischläger, Hans Bren, Georg Ehrlich, Otto Rudolf Schatz, Fritz Schwarz Waldegg, Carry Hauser, Wilhelm Kaufmann, Karl Mediz, Anton Peschka, Maximilian Reinitz, Bettina Ehrlich, Eleonore Doelter, Marianne Fieglhuber-Gutscher, Josef Floch, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Albert Reuss, Herbert von Reyl-Hanisch, Frieda Salvendy, Konstantin Stoitzner, Viktor Tischler, My Ullmann and Carl Zewy. Edgar Jené, Arnulf Neuwirth, Franz Rogler, Rudolf Hoflehner, Rudolf Pointner, Rudolf Hausner, Wolfgang Hutter, Anton Lehmden, Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs, Arnulf Rainer, Friedenreich Hundertwasser, Günter Brus, Fritz Wotruba, Max Weiler, Kurt Kocherscheidt, Paul Flora and Bruno Gironcoli 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.