OSKAR MULLEY (Klagenfurt 1891 - 1949 Garmisch-Partenkirchen) Study of a tree, 1942 charcoal/paper 68 x 49 cm signed Mulley, dated 42 signed Mulley and inscribed Baumstudie on verso ESTIMATE € 300 - € 500 STARTING PRICE € 300 Oskar Mulley was an Austrian artist. Mulley received initial artistic training at the Kunstgewerbeschule (college of applied arts) in Munich; he went on to enroll at the Akademie der bildenden Künste (Academy of Fine Arts) to study under Alois Delug and Rudolf Jettmar. After he had taken his degree in 1913, he worked as a stage painter in Vienna. he worked as a theatre decoration painter in Vienna.in the same year, he volunteered to join the army. In 1918, he moved to Kufstein where he created many of his famous subjects in his distinctive spatula technique. He received numerous awards, such as the Goldene Staatsmedaille (golden state medal) in 1927. In 1934, Mulley moved to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where he was called up for service in the Deutsche Wehrmacht in 1939; in 1944 he was discharged due to his poor health. In 1945, the painter was handed down a one-year "Malverbot" (painting ban). The artist continued to live in garmisch-Partenkirchen until his death in 1949. He was a memeber of the Wiener Künstlerhaus the Wiener Secession. Key words: landscape, mountains, impressionism, realism, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Johann Georg Platzer, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Friedrich von Amerling, Otto Wagner, Eduard Ameseder, Carl O'Lynch of Town, Richard Gerstl, Max Domenig, Robin Christian Andersen, Egon Schiele, Paul Kassecker, Hans Kneslm Heinz Leinfellner, Rudolf Hausner, Joannis Avramidis, Maximilian Melcher, Alfred Hrdlicka, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Arik Brauer, Wolfgang Hollegha, Anton Lehmden, Josef Mikl, Ernst Fuchs, Armin Pramstaller, Cornelius Kolig, Meina Schellander, Franz West, Gottfried Helnwein, Manfred Deix, Heimo Zobernig, Gunter Damisch, Daniel Richter, Monica Bonvicini, dorit Margreiter, Herbert Boeckl, Josef Dobrowsky, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Willy Eisenschitz 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.