ROBERT PHILIPPI* (Graz 1877 - 1959 Vienna) Nudes, 1916 wodcut/paper 49 x 49,5 cm monogrammed and dated in plate RPH 1916 ESTIMATE °€ 150 - € 300 STARTING PRICE € 150 The Austrian painter Robert Philippi received his first artistic training from the theatre painter Robert Kautsky and at the private Viennese painting school Streblow. From 1893 to 1896, he studied at the Vienna Academy with Christian Griepenkerl and Josef Mathias Trenkwald and later at the Kunstgewerbeschule Wien (Vienna School of Applied Arts) with Felician Myrbach and Alfred Roller. In 1914, he became Franz Čižek's assistant at the Kunstgewerbeschule. He was probably also a student at the Weimar Bauhaus. After starting out with drawing and woodcuts, Philippi increasingly turned to painting from 1925 onwards. Philippi was influenced by Gustav Klimt and a member of the Hagenbund, Vienna, until 1925. The Sankt Marx Slaughterhouse (built 1846-1848, opened in 1851) in Vienna's 3rd district, Landstraße, was Vienna's largest slaughterhouse and important for the city's meat supply. It was primarily intended for the slaughter of cattle, young cattle, and livestock, which were subject to compulsory slaughterhouse treatment from an early stage. The slaughterhouse was closed in 1997. 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.