HANS STOCKBAUER* (Leoben 1910 - 1982 Vienna) Nude at the beach colour woodcut/paper 50 x 64,8 cm signed Stockbauer, numbered 3/3 ESTIMATE °€ 100 - € 200 STARTING PRICE € 100 Hans Stockbauer was an Austrian artist. After his childhood and school days in Donawitz and Bruck an der Mur, he btook up an apprenticeship as a lithographer in Graz at the age of 14, which he successfully completed after three years. This was followed by studies at the Graz State Art School with Professor Pauluzzi. In 1929, Stockbauer moved to the Academie Julian in Paris with his painter friend Ernst Paar, where he became friends with the Dutch graphic artist M. C. Escher, with whom he went on a study trip to Italy in 1930. In 1936, Hans Stockbauer, who had now become a member of the Graz Secession, received the Austrian State Prize. After the war, the artist and his family moved to Vienna, where he co-founded the artist group "Der Kreis" in 1946. From 1950 onwards he developed a new technique of coloured woodcuts, using which he created numerous exhibits. In the 1950s he exhibited at home and abroad. Today his works can be found in the Albertina, the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Belvedere Museum, the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz and the Neue Galerie der Stadt Graz. Further artists and styles: Cubism, New Objectivity, Expressionism 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.