HERMANN SERIENT* (born 1935 in Melk) Houses, 1989 oil/cardboard 21 x 15 cm signed Serient ESTIMATE € 600 - € 800 STARTING PRICE € 600 Austrian artist of the 20th century. Lives and works in Vienna and southern Burgenland. Completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith, lived in Vienna in the 1960s as an artist, cartoonist for the Wiener Arbeiterzeitung and jazz musician, and hitch-hiked across Europe. He experimented with homemade instruments, took photographs and made animated films for the ORF. From the 1970s, as a forerunner of the green movement, social and environmental themes in his work. Works in old master technique like the representatives of Magic Realism and the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner and Wolfgang Hutter. Interest in works by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Breughel. Grotesque, enigmatic, fairy-tale and mystical elements as in Surrealism. Themes and motifs always related to the present, social criticism and pointing out environmental destruction. Also comic and humorous elements as in the depictions of the vampire. Luminosity of colours by mixing the pigments, oil paints and egg tempera. 2005 and 2015 exhibitions at the Landesgalerie Burgenland in Eisenstadt. Further artists and styles: Surrealism, Franz Ringel, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, tempera, graphics, print, monotype, Wolfgang Hutter, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Edgar Jené, Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, Xenia Hausner, Anton Lehmden, Franz Radziwill 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.