OTTO ROBERT NOWAK (Vienna 1874 - 1945 Senftenberg near Krems) Summer rest oil/wood 27 x 34.5 cm signed Otto Nowak ESTIMATE °€ 400 - € 600 STARTING PRICE € 400 Otto Robert Nowak was an Austrian history, genre, and portrait painter. Nowak graduated from the General Drawing School, was a guest student at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1891, and from 1893 a full-time student at the Academy's General Painting School under Julius Berger. He also studied at the Master School for History Painting under Siegmund L'Allemand and Franz Rumpler. From 1899, he worked as a freelance painter and taught painting. He was friends with the architect Max Hegele. Hegele owned a house in Weidlingau near Vienna, where Otto Nowak and his wife Hedi Nowak-Reimer spent many summers. Both artists were members of the Vienna Künstlerhaus. In addition to drawings, gouaches, and watercolours, Otto Robert Nowak created portraits and history paintings in oil, landscape paintings, religious art, and small-format genre paintings depicting 19th-century Biedermeier Vienna. One of his favourite subjects was the life of Franz Schubert. Otto Nowak's works are accessible at the Museum of the City of Vienna. Further artists and styles: Historical painting, genre painting, portrait, Julius Berger, Siegmund L'Allemand, Franz Rumpler, Künstlerhaus 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.