IRMGARD LOEW* (active in the 1920s) Topiary I, c. 1924 gouache/paper 44 x 32 cm signed Irmgard Steil ESTIMATE °€ 150 - € 300 STARTING PRICE € 150 Irmgard Loew, née Steil, was married to the Bauhaus artist Heinz Loew (1903-1981) and was particularly active as an artist in the 1920s. The State Bauhaus was founded by Walter Gropius in 1919, originally on the premises of the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Applied Arts in Weimar, founded by Henry van de Velde in 1908. In 1925 the company moved to Dessau. After the Bauhaus moved from Dessau to Berlin in 1932, Heinz Loew ran the advertising agency Studio Z together with Franz Ehrlich and Fritz Winter. Further artists and styles: Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Dessau 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.