HANS PILHS* (Tullnerbach 1903 - 1986 Vienna) Townscape oil/canvas 47,5 x 63 cm signed H. Pilhs ESTIMATE € 250 - € 500 STARTING PRICE € 250 Hans Pilhs was an Austrian Expressionist painter who is considered part of the "lost generation" of interwar Expressionism. From 1919, Pilhs attended the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) in Vienna, under Erich Mallina and Anton von Kenner. He was discovered by the art dealer Otto Kalir-Nirenstein, who dedicated his 100th anniversary exhibition to him in 1934 at his "Neue Galerie" in Vienna. In 1938, Pilhs went on a study trip to Italy. In 1941, he was drafted into the army; in 1945, he was taken prisoner by the British. In 1954 and 1958, he travelled to Greece and Egypt. He created cycles of paintings in Tunisia in 1962, in Morocco and Spain in 1964, and in Turkey in 1966. Exhibitions: 1924, Theseus Temple, Vienna; 1933, Glaspalast/Burggarten, Vienna; 1934, Welz Gallery, Salzburg; 1934, Neue Galerie, Vienna; Welz Gallery, Salzburg (with Oskar Kokoschka); 1935, Vienna Secession; 1938; Vienna Kunstschau; 1950 - 1974 Künstlerhaus Vienna; 1974/5, Herzog Gallery, Vienna; 1975, Baden Gallery; 1979, Ethnographic Museum Vienna; 1980, Scharnstein Castle Gallery; 1983, Niederösterreichisches Landesmusem (Lower Austrian State Museum); 1986, Weihergut Gallery, Salzburg. Works by Hans Pilhs are part of the following collections: Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Vienna; Albertina, Vienna; Cultural Office of the City of Vienna, Museum Niederösterreich (Museum of Lower Austria; formerly Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum/Lower Austrian State Museum). Further artists and styles: Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Franz Barwig der Ältere, Wander Bertoni, Max Domenig, Adolf Frohner, Anton Hanak, Matthias Herrmann, Wolfgang Hutter, Erika Giovanna Klien, Gustav Klimt, Hans Knesl, Oskar Kokoschka, Bertold Löffler, Dorit Margreiter, Koloman Moser, Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill 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.