MAX WEILER* (Absam 1910 - 2001 Vienna) Advent Flower colour lithography/vellum 50 x 65 cm signed Weiler, dated 91 depicted in Online Wkvz. Albertina, Weiler 341 numbered 289/360 ESTIMATE € 1600 - € 2600 STARTING PRICE € 1600 Max Weiler attended the Toni Kirchmayr painting school in Innsbruck and from 1930 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Karl Sterrer, where he was accepted into the masterclass in 1933. In 1936, Clemens Holzmeister commissioned him to work on the artistic design of the Austrian Chapel in the papal pavilion at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris. During the Second World War, Weiler initially worked as an assistant teacher in Telfs and in Zams near Landeck, before being called up by the German Wehrmacht in 1942 to serve in Northern Italy and Yugoslavia. He returned to Gerlos in 1945 and won the competition to paint the frescoes in the Theresienkirche on the Hungerburg in Innsbruck. In 1951, he celebrated his first solo exhibitions at the Tyrolean Provincial Museum Ferdinandeum, the Würthle Gallery in Vienna and the New Gallery of the City of Linz. In 1964, he was appointed professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 1975, the first monograph on Max Weiler was published, edited by Wilfried Skreiner. In 1978, a Weiler exhibition took place in the Graphic Collection of the Albertina in Vienna. This was followed by numerous other exhibitions in Austria and abroad. FuMax Weiler attended the Toni Kirchmayr painting school in Innsbruck and from 1930 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Karl Sterrer, whose master school he was accepted into in 1933. In 1936, Clemens Holzmeister commissioned him to work on the artistic design of the Austria Chapel in the papal pavilion at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris. During the Second World War, Weiler first worked as an assistant teacher in Telfs and in Zams near Landeck before he was drafted by the German Wehrmacht in 1942 for deployment in Northern Italy and Yugoslavia. In 1945 he returned to Gerlos and won the competition to create the frescoes in the Theresienkirche on the Hungerburg in Innsbruck. In 1951 he celebrated his first solo exhibitions in the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum, the Würthle Gallery in Vienna and the Neue Galerie in the city of Linz. In 1964 he received the professorship for painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 1975 the first monograph on Max Weiler, edited by Wilfried Skreiner, was published. In 1978, a Weiler exhibition took place in the graphic collection of the Albertina in Vienna. Numerous other exhibitions at home and abroad followed. Further artists and styles: Karl Sterrer, Clemens Holzmeister, landscape painting, University of Fine Arts, frescoes, mosaics, stained glass, abstraction, expressionism 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.