LISL ENGELS* (Mödling 1916 - 2006 Thalgauegg) Flower vase, 1951 watercolour/paper 63 x 45 cm signed Lisl Engls, dated 1951 ESTIMATE € 600 - € 1200 STARTING PRICE € 600 Lisl Cech's father was the Mödling doctor Karl Cech. She attended the girls' high school on Eisentorgasse. She had been artistic since her early youth; She received her artistic influence from Robin Christian Andersen, whose studio she entered as the youngest student at the age of 14; Here she made her first attempts at still life and life drawing. Cech attended the Vienna School of Applied Arts and then the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She remained connected throughout her life with Andersen's idea of depicting nature in an orderly, sometimes arranged structure, which was based on Paul Cézanne's late work. In 1935, Cech had the first exhibition of ten works at the Vienna Secession. In 1939, she married the architect Erich Engels and moved with him from Vienna to Bad Gastein. From 1942 to 1944, Lisl Engels worked intensively with Franz Wiegele in the Nötscher Circle. She also met the painters Herbert Boeckl, Anton Kolig and Oskar Kokoschka. The latter had considerable artistic influence on her. In 1946, Engels moved to Salzburg, where she developed a wide range of exhibitions. From 1974 Engels lived with her family in Thalgauegg. They are in the collections of the Salzburg state government and the Austrian National Bank, among others. In 2003, the Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum showed a special exhibition of Engels' paintings. Further artists and styles: Expressionism, Franz Wiegele, Herbert Boeckl, Anton Kolig, Oskar Kokoschka, Nötscher Kreis, still life, nude, landscape painting, flowers, self-portrait 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.