JOHANNES FISCHER* (Feldsberg 1888 - 1955 Vienna) Tropical fantasy, around 1921 lithograph/paper 27.6 x 40.8 cm verso labelled and titled Johannes Fischer: "Tropenphantasie" ESTIMATE °€ 100 - € 200 STARTING PRICE € 100 Before Johannes Fischer turned to painting, he was initially enrolled to study natural sciences and philosophy, but he dropped out. Initially, he was a self-taught artist. This was followed by training at the private painting school David Kohn and Anton Hlaváček. In 1914, he made his debut at the Reininghausen-Wettbewerb (Reininghausen Competition) with a sunny landscape - a theme that shaped his work throughout his life; he repeatedly painted landscapes with bright skies from the area around Vienna, Alpine and travel motifs, as well as still lifes and portraits. As a co-founder of the Wiener Kunstschau (Vienna Art Show), as a member of the Hagenbund, the Secession and the Künstlerhaus, and as a close friend of Egon Schiele, Fischer was a fixture in the Vienna art scene. From 1915 onwards, he took a series of portrait photographs of Schiele. In 1937, Fischer received the Austrian State Prize; little later, his pictures were exhibited in the Nazis' "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibition. This was followed by a ban on painting until 1945. Further artists and styles: Hagenbund, Secession, Künstlerhaus, Egon Schiele, Arthur Roessler, Daniel Kohn, Anton Hlavacek, Expressionism, landscape painting, genre painting, portrait painting 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.