HERBERT BOECKL* (Klagenfurt 1894 - 1966 Vienna) Karavanks watercolour/paper 36,7 x 47,7 cm ESTIMATE € 8000 - 12000 STARTING PRICE € 8000 Herbert Boeckl was an Austrian artist. After graduating from high school in Klagenfurt, he went to Vienna in 1912, where he applied to the Academy of Fine Arts. When Böckl was rejected, he began studying architecture at the construction school of the Technische Hoschule (Technical College) and was a private student of Adolf Loos. Through Loos he came into contact with artists such as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt and Carl Moll and was able to show his work for the first time in 1913 in a joint exhibition of the Österreichischen Künstlerbundes (Austrian Artists' Association) in the Pisko art salon. During the First World War, Böckl served on the Italian front in the same regiment as Bruno Grimschitz, a friend and supporter of Boeckl and later director of the Austrian Gallery in the Bevedere. After the war, Böckl married Maria Plahna, who served as a nude model for him in the first years of their marriage. After the first state examination at the Technical University in 1918, he gave up his studies, moved into a studio in Klagenfurt and took part in an exhibition by the Kunstverein Kärnten (Carinthian Art Association) in the Künstlerhaus. Egon Schiele was enthusiastic and recommended Boeckl to the Viennese art dealer and publisher Gustav Nebehay. A contract with Nebehay secured Boeckl's financial security and enabled him to travel to Berlin, Paris and Sicily for study trips. The first major presentation of his work took place as part of the Secession's autumn exhibition in 1927, where 30 oil paintings were shown. In 1935 he was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1938 the artist changed the spelling of his name from Böckl to Boeckl. During the Second World War, Boeckl withdrew and took over the daily evening act instead of leading the master class. After the war he became rector. He was dismissed as rector in 1946. At the beginning of the 1950s, Boeckl began working on the monumental fresco for the Angel Chapel in Seckau Abbey. Boeckl received the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1934 and 1953, the Klimt-Ehrung der Secession in 1960 and the Golden Cross of Honour for Science and Art of the Republic of Austria and the Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna in 1964. In 1964 a major Boeckl retrospective took place at the Museum of the 20th Century. 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 ° at the estimate), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. This amounts to 13% for paintings, drawings, graphic works and sculptures and 20% for photographs and all other items. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.