STEFAN EGGELER* (Vienna 1894 - 1969 Vienna) Old house, around 1925 etching/paper 36.5 x 26 cm verso label "Altes Haus" etching by Stefan Eggeler (from the property of Erich Pitzbauer) around 1925 ESTIMATE °€ 30 - € 50 STARTING PRICE € 30 Stefan Eggeler attended the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt and later studied at the Viennese Academy with Michalek, Schmutzler and Bacher. At the same time he was reading law, and he took his doctor's degree in 1917. After his training he worked as a painter, etcher, engraver and lithographer and applied himself mainly to sullen, grotesque and ironic themes. In several, closed cycles he proved himself as a graphic artist and accomplished portfolios such as "Puppenspiel/Puppet Show", "Spielmann und Teufel/The Gleeman and the Devil" and "Musikalische Miniaturen/Musical Miniatures". He also illustrated literary works by Arthur Schnitzler and Hanns Heinz Ewers from 1921 onward and in 1925 became co-publisher and artistic director of magazine "Kokain. Eine moderne Revue" Aged only 31, he terminated his artistic career. From then on to his death in 1967 he worked only in white-bread jobs, such as legal adviser to the Municipality of Vienna. Further artists and styles: Etching, woodcut, linocut, symbolism, Ferdinand Schmutzer, Rudolf Bacher, Ludwig Michalek, Künstlerhaus, Carry Hauser, Norbertine Bresslern-Roth, Otto Rudolf Schatz, fantastic realism, Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, illustration 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.