THEODOR ALESCHA* (Vienna 1898 - 1991 Lilienfeld) Lake Hüttensee, 1937 Pastel/Paper 55 x 64.5 cm signed Alescha, dated verso 1937 ESTIMATE °€ 400 - € 600 STARTING PRICE € 400 Austrian landscape and architecture painter of the 20th century. Representative of exile art. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts with Rudolf Bacher. Study trips to Italy, Yugoslavia, Russia, Switzerland, France and Portugal. Acquaintance with Romain Rolland. Fondness for the poet Walt Whitman and the novelist Otto Flake. Exhibited regularly in the Hagenbund. In 1938 he emigrated to Grenoble in France, and in Paris in 1939 he met Willy Eisenschitz and Georg Merkel. 1941 emigration to the USA, 1947 return to Vienna. 1984 exhibition in the Austrian Gallery Belvedere, 1988 exhibition in the Vienna Museum. Mainly created landscapes, including pastels with impressive mountain scenes and mountain landscapes from the Valais Alps. Further artists and styles: Landscape painting, Rudolf Bacher, Hagenbund, Anton Mahringer, Franz Wiegele, Werner Berg, Rudolf von Alt, Oskar Kokoschka, Wilhelm Bernatzik, Franz Schretter 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.