HANS JOACHIM BREUSTEDT* (Steinach in the Thuringian Forest 1901 - 1984 Vevey) Still life, 1977 oil/canvas 32.5 x 25.4 cm dated 77, monogrammed HJB ESTIMATE € 600 - € 1200 STARTING PRICE € 600 Hans Joachim Breustedt was an Austrian artist. He studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar from 1919 where he dealt with the design principles of Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger. Instead of avant-garde originality, however, he strived for a harmonious synthesis between representation of objects and abstraction. Most of his early work was lost in the bombing of Warsaw in 1939. During the further turmoil of the Second World War, he came to Upper Austria, where he married the graphic designer Margret Bilger in 1953. The couple's place of residence and work was a wooden house built in 1864 in Taufkirchen an der Pram (open as a museum since 2004). During this time he also became a member of the artists' association MAERZ. Further styles and artists: Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, MAERZ, Abstract Art, Surrealism, Cubism, Valie Export, Karl Hauk, Gottfried Höllwarth, Peter Huemer, Alfred Kubin, Anton Peschka, Carl Anton Reichel, Alois Riedl, Franz Sedlacek, Richard Serra, Günther Selichar, Daniel Spoerri, Walter Vopava, Aloys Wach, Manfred Wakolbinger, Franz von Zülow, Othmar Zechyr 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.